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Alice Walker’s generosity in celebrating what had come before, what had ignited her, opened up a world for readers. Alice…
Helena Drysdale speaks with James McConnachie about gender in travel writing, cancer and chasing the family past. Helena Drysdale speaks…
Great writers… write how they want. If they want to tell without showing, they do. Read Henry James if you…
I should also mention Stan Lee. Spiderman caught criminals and saved lives but had trouble getting a girlfriend. I should…
Martin Sketchley on his enduring love affair with typewriters. Martin Sketchley describes his lifelong love affair with typewriters, and why,…
iIt’s also odd that the level of detail about one particular swimmer didn’t raise a flag, but how would an…
One moment I was looking at the huge, empty, stone sarcophagus, its heavy lid propped open with rocks; the next,…
In my fifties I led an expedition round Spitsbergen, home of the Snow Queen; life returning to fairy tales. I…
Jill Dawson explains how books and writing literally saved her life. Jill Dawson discusses the writers – mostly American, many…
I’m drawn to history. Writing is a means of immersing myself in the past; the closest thing I know to…
Micha Ullman’s memorial to the books burned in 1933; the glass plate reveals a series of empty white bookcases marking…
Attachment to place will drive you as a writer; you’ll come to realise that this stems from longing. Attachment to…
