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Every. Unnecessary. Word. There were thousands. I could cross out ‘and’ and use the semi-colon; all the stuff that was…
This purpose, that landed inside me at eleven years old, in the wildest part of Wales, has never left. I…
In making the chaos of experience into something with shape, structure, perhaps even beauty, you can find a resolution for…
Mary Colson on why she prefers facts to fiction. Mary Colson on her enduring love of facts, and how this…
Asked to deliver four hundred and fifty words by four pm on a social workers’ strike in Barnsley; four hundred…
I suppose my novels so far stand at this intersection; where memory, imagination, and the books that made me, collide.…
Joanna Trollope speaks with Caroline Sanderson about lifelong readers, sibling value and gender issues in literature. RLF Trustee Joanna Trollope…
I’m inspired by novelists who reveal the extraordinary in what are patronisingly called ‘everyday people’; that refusal to confine interest…
I’ve spent a lot of my life reading on buses and trains; I read Moby Dick on a seventy-two hour…
Rick Stroud on how his daughter Nell Gifford fell in love with the circus. Reflecting on his daughter Nell Gifford’s…
Just as Walter Farley made me a jockey and a horse trainer, under Arthur Ransome’s tutelage I became an explorer…
Writing began as a way of escaping solitude. I was also a compulsive reader, especially of adventure stories, and fascinated…
