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Andrei Platonov has an unquenchable belief that ordinary people, however damaged get their act together. This is most precious of…
Outsiders masquerading as insiders. That’s how I feel when I’m writing a book. Only pretending to inhabit the everyday world.…
I am definitely not one of those people who can get up before everyone else and work for three hours.…
Simon Booker on his experience as writer in residence at HMP Grendon. Simon Booker describes how a stint as writer…
Watching a film or TV programme, no matter how good it may be, is a passive activity… Reading is active.…
Writers discuss their favourite children’s book. Kerry Young, Colin Grant, Debjani Chatterjee MBE, Rahila Gupta, Michael McMillan and Mimi Khalvati…
I’m also very keen on reading work in translation, as the translator often has to work hard to render the…
Shelley Harris speaks with Bethan Roberts about leaving South Africa, fear of failure and sudden fame via TV. Shelley Harris…
Crime fiction, I learned, was a broad church. If anyone was guilty of making a miscalculation about what it should…
There was always more to marvel at. The creation of emotion. The uncanny beauty of a phrase upon the page.…
In my role as Royal Literary Fund fellow, I again find myself an outsider; inhabiting an interesting hinterland as neither…
John Harrison on a famous ship, painted by a famous artist. John Harrison describes the last voyage of the Temeraire,…
