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Writing can bring fame, fortune, opprobrium, imprisonment, even death or the threat of death, and that would bloody well change…
When getting rid of books becomes unavoidable. When he came to move house, Roy Bainton was faced with the painful…
Neglect your children, lose touch with your friends, live in disorder, get into debt; only when these things happen do…
In Location and the Writer, we visit a sandy place and a place called Sandy. Jo Mazelis takes us to…
As the story develops, corridors are re-positioned and walls punctuated by gates that were never there. This helps me to…
Our sitting down side by side, and his joy in reading to me, was ended; guilt then, infests my reading…
Writers discuss their favourite children’s book. Courttia Newland, Esther Selsdon, Nicola Baldwin, Hugh Stoddart, Mario Petrucci and Marina Benjamin discuss…
Susan Fletcher on why we find the lives of Henry VIII’s six queens so interesting. Susan Fletcher recalls the moment…
A writer doesn’t have to be famous to make you think, and feel, and remember their work. I read George…
Robyn Marsack speaks with Cherise Saywell about WW1 and Edmund Blunden, her grandfather’s war writing, and a literary surprise. Robyn…
Research pitted with fascinating rabbit holes down which I’ll dive because my curiosity has been piqued. Research pitted with fascinating…
Poetry, furnished with ordinary people like bus drivers and sad aunts, and written in a language that was playful, witty…
