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Cynthia Rogerson on the advantages and disadvantages of writing autobiography. In writing about her past, Cynthia Rogerson found that employing…
Planning and plaiting the story strands can seem like just more hardcore displacement activity, until you don’t do it. Planning…
Lucy Moore speaks with James McConnachie about recovering a life from a receipt book, chemistry’s domestic roots and Civil War…
Although I had trained as a nurse, to me writing was a white, educated occupation; having read loads of books,…
Your own complete ignorance of the world and everything in it… which then enables you to find almost everything interesting.…
Sue Purkiss on revisiting her father’s wartime past. Researching a book based on her father’s experiences as a prisoner of…
I marched straight to the ‘wallflower’ seats and opened up my novel. So entranced was I in the plot. I…
Ann Morgan explodes some publishing myths, and Nicholas Murray considers a curious reluctance. Ann Morgan retells the grand old myth…
Like her heroines, Rumer Godden refused to be packaged as one kind of writer, and smother her spark. Like her…
Writing can bring fame, fortune, opprobrium, imprisonment, even death or the threat of death, and that would bloody well change…
When getting rid of books becomes unavoidable. When he came to move house, Roy Bainton was faced with the painful…
Neglect your children, lose touch with your friends, live in disorder, get into debt; only when these things happen do…
