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I don’t know exactly when I gave up pretensions to being a serious reader, but the crime and children’s books…
Does the art of turning ‘true life’ into biography, film or television inevitably lead to a manipulation of the truth.…
I had only just learned to read, and deciphering Mary’s idiosyncratic script was one of the pleasures of reading the…
Stephen Wyatt takes us to the Gallifrey One convention, and Doug Johnstone explains how he found his voice through failure.…
Reading as a writer and not just as a reader is a different experience, both richer and less carefree; instead…
Remember that too, that silly optimism, because no one believes more in your work than you and your belief is…
A change of place, finding a new muse, a different verse form, there are many ways to trigger a writer’s…
I’ve watched films that have been adapted from books or short stories and then I read the original material to…
In Location and the Writer, we visit a tiny cottage in Ireland and a cherished house and garden in Gloucestershire.…
Chinua, an Igbo from Nigeria of my father’s generation, who wrote Things Fall Apart with its title by an Irishman…
Iris Murdoch advised me to put something for everybody into my novels. She meant that a novel has to work…
Could artificial intelligence and big data predict the bestsellers of the future. Could artificial intelligence and big data predict the…
