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James McConnachie challenges the idea of gendered books for children, and Mark McCrum introduces the strange world of the ghost…
I have been shut in the cells at the local police station, interviewed a rape counsellor and got lots of…
Writing, for me, is a journey of discovery. I don’t know how to reach my inner brain, my subconscious, without…
Tobias Jones on how living in Italy and habitually speaking Italian has affected his writing style. Having lived in Italy…
One friend recently asked me to name the best five books I’ve ever read; I told him mine, he told…
Caitlin Davies and her father Hunter Davies dissect their respective writing careers and the state of publishing. Caitlin Davies and…
Before he could see, hear, or smell ‘Fox’, Hughes was aware of something entering the loneliness of his midnight writing…
For no good reason, certainly no reason that I can understand, I still get that weird tingling sensation when I’ve…
Martin Sketchley on how he got into writing radio drama. Listening to the radio as a child sparked Martin Sketchley’s…
If Dylan Thomas introduces you to intoxication, Emily Dickinson shows you how to distill it. A poet who does not…
Rukhsana Ahmad speaks with John Siddique about childhood in Pakistan, her core motivation and the trap of the ‘post-colonial’. Rukhsana…
Perhaps you will become a successful lace-seller, or a designer, or work in fashion, which might well be preferable to…
