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Like insomnia, or memory loss, or madness, writer’s block is something I prefer to keep in my peripheral vision. Like…
Mrs Drue Heinz, the benefactor who bought Hawthornden Castle, thought of everything when she designed their residential fellowships. This is…
We sat speechless in the echoing hall, each with our Princess Matic portable manual typewriter, a huge, orange plastic binder…
Lydia Syson speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about fiction and ghostwriting, ethical motivations and the importance of luck. Lydia Syson speaks…
Lydia Syson speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about childhood in Botswana, the perils of Critical Theory and obsessive accuracy. Lydia Syson…
I thought I was writing history, a novel for teenagers that told the story of British involvement in the Spanish…
Lydia Syson considers the kinds of truth embodied in fiction, and considers its place in historical research. Lydia Syson reflects…
Thinking of Shaw, newly arrived in London from Dublin to find everyone writing novels, I remember my own version of…
The articles I later wrote about this extraordinary trip may have helped sell my novel, who knows? I was fired…
You have to be prepared for weeks of footnote-tag, invest heavily in clue following and set off for distant records…
I loved the sense of living in Woolf’s novels, their heady, fluttering, thoughtful sensuality; the significance of each detail. I…
Death, money, cooking, school assemblies, blog posts, twitter; I’d rather you went on enjoying the benign neglect which lets you…
