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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…
Andrew Martin favours the authenticity of old maps as a guide in writing historical fiction. When researching his historical novels,…
After a man broke into my home and tried to kill me I couldn’t read properly for five years. I…
Donny O’Rourke celebrates Beltane in Ullapool, and Chris Arthur considers ‘odd object’ essays. Donny O’Rourke finds himself in the book-blessed…
I felt that the characters in Tyler’s fiction were true to the tips of their fingers, knotted into their world…
Duncan Forbes explains his odd-looking writing talisman. Duncan Forbes explains the significance, and the very long history, of his strange-looking…
Having always been isolated I created imaginative worlds of my own, and I do so still. Oh dear! It all…
Rosemary Bailey on researching and writing memoir — and the lasting friendships it brought about. As the author of four…
I write every day and become captivated by the way the story unfolds. Although as author I am notionally in…
Laura Hird speaks with Geoff Hattersley about bleak stories, writing in multiple voices and a literary afterlife. Laura Hird speaks…
