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Be yourself. Write the story that is growing in your head, not the one you think an editor might like…
Mark McCrum speaks with James McConnachie about travel writing and race in South Africa and Australia. Mark McCrum speaks with…
I met the real-life inspiration for one of the women characters, Carolyn Cassady, wife of Neal, or ‘Dean’ as he…
I want your attention. That’s why I spend all those hours hammering away at a keyboard. It’s all about you.…
Linda Hoy on an early campaigner for the environment. Linda Hoy reflects on the contribution made by Thoreau to present…
Writers discuss their desert island book. Hugh Stoddart, Courttia Newland, Marina Benjamin, Esther Selsdon, Nicola Baldwin and Mario Petrucci discuss…
Space is still exciting and you wouldn’t believe some of the discoveries scientists have made. But sadly, aliens still haven’t…
Dipo Agboluaje speaks with Gabriel Gbadamosi about growing up in Britain and Nigeria, the themes of his plays and the…
I am no longer young or teetotal. I have a respectable number of friends, and a couple of dependants, and…
I went back to my hotel room, leafed through the mound of tattered pages on the desk, and wished with…
Editor James McConnachie on the delicate art of rejection… As editor of The Author, James McConnachie has had to develop…
I carried around in my head a whole pantheon of dead family members, to each of whom a story was…
