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Loving a person can make one vulnerable, dependent and often terribly silly; loving a book can make you strong. Loving…
Remember when you were a kid and your friends thought you were a bit weird? Well, guess what? You are…
How dreams and the unconscious can create narrative structure. Like many young writers, Lizzie Nunnery resisted the idea that literary…
Crucially, it changes the way you behave. This involves being anti-social; the fact you regularly have to go into a…
Pippa Little speaks with Geoff Hattersley about growing up in Africa and Scotland, writing approaches and interrupted education. Pippa Little…
The novel I believed did not want to be written suddenly wrote itself right to the end in a matter…
Reading the book as a student in Thatcher’s London it subtly but perfectly reflected the culture around me. Material possessions…
Bernie McGill uncovers the touching family story behind a famous poem. The gift of a poem from Seamus Heaney to…
Like many writers I write best when I care about my characters because if I don’t care about them, how…
In Location and the Writer, we visit an historic library in the Scottish countryside, and an equally historic Cambridge college.…
I write fast and in short bursts to keep the energy of the prose up, and I write in the…
You were brave to the point of foolhardiness but put you in front of a keyboard and you were a…
