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Writers don’t need to be prisoners, or exiles, or even cursed by elements of their own society to feel an…
Shy as a child, books became my shield from life, as well as an escape, and I read my way…
Brian Clegg on bridging the communication gap between practicing scientists and the general public. Brian Clegg on his experience as…
I try to say what needs saying, today, as well as I possibly can say it — however bad it…
I’ve written two novels about the Great War and both of them were inspired by one of the most haunting…
The written word is not like a conversation. There is a time gap between the stimulus and the response. The…
Syd Moore visits the complex landscape of the Essex Estuary, and Amanda Dalton views her childhood home of Coventry through…
The days of the monocultured genre writer is long gone. Writers carry a choir of voices in their heads. The…
The worst thing about that first rejection wasn’t that I’d been turned down by Oxford, it was that it made…
Marnie Riches considers the dark side of research. Marnie Riches considers the dark side of research and its effects on…
Don’t, on replacing the recycling bin, notice the complete stories of Flannery O’Connor resting on the kitchen table, and think…
Writers discuss their favourite book in translation. Leila Rasheed, Penny Black, Jonny Wright, Shelley Silas, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Sanjida O’Connell and…
