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When I simply consumed books with no aspiration to write one, every novel was a plus. It existed only to…
Ian Thomson finds resonances between Dante’s Divine Comedy and the 12-step approach. Ian Thomson reads Dante’s Divine Comedy as a…
Be outrageous! When I was your age my writing was very conventional. I wouldn’t offend anyone or express any controversial…
Novels, depending on the genre, allow the reader to bring much of their own personal life to their stories, whereas…
Sue Roe on writing about the Impressionist painters as a group. When Sue Roe decided to write a group biography…
I was writing my first novel, a convoluted, pretentious and, as it turned out, unpublishable thriller. “How do you feel…
Trish Cooke speaks with Caroline Sanderson about Dominica and Yorkshire, her parents’ love of stories and her multimedia career. Trish…
In an increasingly homogenised and uniform world rare and distinctive voices are especially needful. In an increasingly homogenised and uniform…
Between my laptop and a thriving aloe vera plant is my hand-drawn map of the world of my current novel;…
Roy Bainton on his alternative career as a music paper scribe. Roy Bainton recalls some highlights of his long career…
I feared these books would be dull, staid and part of the establishment that I was so busy rebelling against;…
Wendy Moore speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about the plight of journalism, compelling historical characters and the past’s parallels with today.…
