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Puzzles, mirrors, infinite regressions, paradoxes; these perfectly crafted, erudite stories – despite their appeal to the intellect – grip like…
He paid his groom an extra five pounds a year to wake him up early every morning with a cup…
I remember the fresh surge of determination as I turned back to my screen, applied myself once more to the…
I feel a kick in the stomach, a tug at the heart, and I know that this germ of an…
I was always envious of the flute section in the orchestra at school; a row of neat-looking, trendy girls who…
Diane (Middlebrook)’s study, which crucially extended the right to examine private life, was a turning point in late twentieth century…
She’d come across the opening buried deep in another chapter. Re-reading that early version and drawing up her plan, the…
I read Macbeth first and happened to learn half of it by heart. This was Shakespeare’s achievement not of my…
When I was writing my fourth novel I had two toddlers but I was trapped inside my story; I was…
I was oblivious of any heavy-handed religious symbolism, I simply grew to love Lewis’s alternative world. As a child, even…
I don’t mind admitting to reading it several times into my late teens. It seems strange now to think I…
I write far too much, I think, which means I have to decide which poems make it out of the…
