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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…
In Location and the Writer, we visit a sandy place and a place called Sandy. Jo Mazelis takes us to…
As the story develops, corridors are re-positioned and walls punctuated by gates that were never there. This helps me to…
Our sitting down side by side, and his joy in reading to me, was ended; guilt then, infests my reading…
