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Pippa Little speaks with Geoff Hattersley about growing up in Africa and Scotland, writing approaches and interrupted education. Pippa Little…
The novel I believed did not want to be written suddenly wrote itself right to the end in a matter…
Reading the book as a student in Thatcher’s London it subtly but perfectly reflected the culture around me. Material possessions…
Bernie McGill uncovers the touching family story behind a famous poem. The gift of a poem from Seamus Heaney to…
Like many writers I write best when I care about my characters because if I don’t care about them, how…
In Location and the Writer, we visit an historic library in the Scottish countryside, and an equally historic Cambridge college.…
I write fast and in short bursts to keep the energy of the prose up, and I write in the…
You were brave to the point of foolhardiness but put you in front of a keyboard and you were a…
Andrew Martin favours the authenticity of old maps as a guide in writing historical fiction. When researching his historical novels,…
After a man broke into my home and tried to kill me I couldn’t read properly for five years. I…
Donny O’Rourke celebrates Beltane in Ullapool, and Chris Arthur considers ‘odd object’ essays. Donny O’Rourke finds himself in the book-blessed…
I felt that the characters in Tyler’s fiction were true to the tips of their fingers, knotted into their world…
