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Writers discuss their favourite children’s book. Ali Knight, Nicholas Murray, Vayu Naidu, Sally Kindberg, Robin Blake, Caitlin Davies and Sarah…
I would take a leaf out of Achebe’s own classic novel Things Fall Apart, in which the final paragraph switches…
I learned to drive power boats for cruise ships in Antarctica to earn time to write… I had changed into…
Bashabi Fraser, Bill Kirton and Cynthia Rogerson on their lockdown experience. Bashabi Fraser misses her grandson; Bill Kirton gets lost…
Virginia used to impress and inspire me to write well; to choose every word for its power and beauty. Now…
I dashed something off about my then obsession: Aristocrats. My favourite film at that time was The AristoCats; I don’t…
Charles Jennings speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about regionalism, suburbs and different lives. Charles Jennings speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about regionalism,…
Like a lot of writers when I read something I enjoy, part of my mind is also deconstructing it. My…
The writing usually begins with an intuition of structure and rhythm, rather than the words themselves. The writing usually begins…
You have to trust that the words will come. You must ignore the devil on your shoulder that insists that…
Miranda France on why we need stories to explain our experience. As a writer of non-fiction and memoir, Miranda France…
There will be a lot to cope with. If you knew how much you might jump off the windowsill, but…
