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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…
Andrew Martin on writing about the railway. Andrew Martin describes his lifelong fascination with trains, and the way the coming…
The writers who inspire me are the writers who know its the writing that matters, not the writer. The writers…
Fiona Shaw on the inspiration of stones from the sea.
I had to throw off the shadows of Samuel Johnson’s perfection before I could write. But they have not left…
That unknowability of others is a central theme of my writing; the desire to overcome that hurdle within, and through,…
Nicola Baldwin speaks with Amanda Whittington about radio drama and its scope for radical storytelling. Nicola Baldwin speaks with Amanda…
Buying books to sell at readings, buying more to send out as extra review copies; attending unlikely events in the…
With climbing, as with writing, the serious lows come with serious highs. Early the next morning we gained a ridge…
