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Knowing the writer inevitably quickens the pleasure of reading the work. Olga is an unusually complete writer; all she does…
In Location and the Writer, we visit the small town of Olney and the tiny village of Great Tew. Mary…
Kathleen Jones’ talismans are a changing set of treasures. Kathleen Jones explains her changing talismans — including a special treasure…
Writing will demoralise you unless you give in to its moral shaping of experience, but nothing will stop you, as…
I am never without a book. It would be tortuous for me to be on a journey, short or long,…
Morgen Witzel shows that writing about history can be a smelly business. As a writer of historical fiction, Morgen Witzel…
I both know how it works, and don’t know how it works; the best metaphor I can come up with…
Paula Byrne speaks with James McConnachie about Jane Austen’s laptop, recovering lost voices and partial lives. Paula Byrne speaks with…
“Murder your darlings” doesn’t come from a Calvinist idea that anything that gives pleasure must be sinful; it’s about forcing…
First I get the central character. Then two ideas I thought were completely separate suddenly collide, revealing themselves to be…
Karen Wallace describes a journey down memory lane. In search of inspiration for her first novel, Karen Wallace went back…
The industry is all about minimising risk and so you yourself have to take that risk. Obviously to take big…
