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He is fearful and hopeless, shabby and disreputable-looking; even his eventual martyrdom is squalid and he fluffs his final words.…
You didn’t know that the same shifts in history writing which meant that Unstead could write history for children largely…
Beatrice Colin on the way that character and plot are intertwined. Plot is often the hardest thing to get right…
I stopped worrying about the book I had written and started thinking about the book I wanted to write; instead…
Paula Byrne speaks with James McConnachie about her Kennedy research, accessible writing and the health benefits of reading. Paula Byrne…
I sat there listening to my words echoing round the room, embarrassed to be the centre of attention, but secretly…
I once witnessed the upper deck of a London bus fall silent in a collective attempt to follow the progress…
Gerry Cambridge on freelancing for Reader’s Digest as a young man. How writing poetry became a free imaginative space for…
I learned about waypoints, sky countries, meteoro-glyphs, flying by instruments only, and whiteouts; it’s not just a book about flying…
In ‘Writing vs Life: On Balance’, RLF writers speak about sustaining both real life and writing life, and whether art…
I like to sit and read at one of the narrow tables next to the floor-to-ceiling windows on North Front…
“Avoid the use of abstract nouns”, he said, “that’s what’s holding your poetry back”. It was a revelation. Now its…
