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Suddenly people were offering me good fees to go to Cardiff or Newcastle or Belfast and read to people who…
Sally Kindberg on her visits to Bleak House. On successive visits to Bleak House, Charles Dickens’s home in Broadstairs, Sally…
Over three novels I had taken a child’s misremembered and half-forgotten memories and turned them into fiction. Over three novels…
Open document that is Novel In Progress; re-read last paragraph, feel very tired. 10.30; check twitter. Eleven am; coffee, peg…
Mirza Waheed speaks with Ann Morgan about his unsettling childhood in Kashmir, studying English in Delhi and life in London.…
I’d have to say that it’s the writing fraternity itself that inspires me, not the writers who are loved and…
Start reading Wodehouse. I don’t understand why you’re holding out against the greatest humorist writer of the twentieth century. Start…
The wolf must be kept from the door and there is nothing inspiring about lupine breath on the back of…
I wrote a grovelingly polite letter to the editor, suggesting amendments, and then I tore up the script and started…
Caroline Brothers on making the transition from journalism to writing fiction. Caroline Brothers, herself a former journalist, on the writers…
It is my habit to circle a piece of writing warily for as long as possible, looking for the entry…
David Spencer finds history and family ghosts in Halifax, and Leigh Russell looks at the wrong side of the tracks.…
