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Jonathan Tulloch satirically revisits a child’s Christmas in Cumbria, and three RLF writers share the best advice they ever received.…
I now find it difficult to read fiction while I am writing it; I’m looking at structure, style, technique, how…
Virginia Woolf and George Bernard Shaw make formidable heroes but it’s not their writing that most inspires Fraser Grace. A…
The self, looking for the self, is the perpetually failing attempt to locate some defining quantum of fixed personality, some…
Marina Benjamin examines the changing role of the personal voice in contemporary memoir, and Alyson Hallett takes us to Charles…
Two very different teachers put the crazy notion into my head that the daughter of an Irish labourer and a…
Chance can play a part in researching a book — as Rick Stroud has reason to know. Chance encounters and…
All of my reasons are personal, and selfish. It’s absorbing, challenging and so on. It also sounds cool, and there’s…
Cynthia Rogerson speaks with James McConnachie about ensuring realism, disliking positive discrimination and enduring chick-lit covers. Cynthia Rogerson speaks with…
What made my admiration of Alan Plater complete was that there were a number of years when both he and…
How Beatrice Colin found inspiration in a Scottish garden Research for a novel led Beatrice Colin to Argyllshire’s Benmore Gardens,…
Ted Hughes went on to stress how important it was to keep my creative energies at top pressure by living…
