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Don’t wait for the right commission, or agent, or reply, or accent, or background. None of that will happen. Don’t…
I believe very much in the spark, the little bit of magic sending a particular idea my way. I’m sure…
Horatio Clare takes us to poet-haunted Hebden Bridge, Lucy Moore celebrates London by pedal, and Curtis Jobling re-imagines phantoms in…
I wanted access to people, places, cultures, different from my own; and reading, especially fiction, seemed to give me that.…
I’m resistant to fiction that thinks itself extravagantly imaginative; magic realism, say. Because there’s usually no narrative tension. I’m resistant…
My first draft, or brainstorm, tends to be a bit of a mess, with lots of crossing out. I put…
James Woodall on his fifty years of writing about The Beatles. James Woodall’s love of The Beatles’ music began when…
This fundamental change in the way books are published gives both author and reader far more influence in the industry.…
Becca Heddle speaks with Jane Draycott about African tales, cloning and bold work for younger readers. Becca Heddle speaks with…
George MacDonald Fraser’s phrasing and structure are so fluid and smooth that reading his sentences always makes me feel happy.…
I was not lacking ideas, rather I woke to find that I had lost the ability to express them. I…
In my version of Brideshead Revisited Cordelia would be the narrator, not Charles; he would be seen for what he…
