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Millie Murray – My Reading Habits
I am never without a book. It would be tortuous for me to be on a journey, short or long,…
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Check out the latest news from the RLF, WritersMosaic highlights, and Collected – our collection of interviews, reflections and articles exploring the literary life and world of writers today.
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Smelling History
Morgen Witzel shows that writing about history can be a smelly business. As a writer of historical fiction, Morgen Witzel…
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Tania Hershman – How Writing Changes The Writer
I both know how it works, and don’t know how it works; the best metaphor I can come up with…
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Paula Byrne, part 1
Paula Byrne speaks with James McConnachie about Jane Austen’s laptop, recovering lost voices and partial lives. Paula Byrne speaks with…
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Emma Darwin – The Best Advice I Ever Received
“Murder your darlings” doesn’t come from a Calvinist idea that anything that gives pleasure must be sinful; it’s about forcing…
Brian Keaney – How I Write
First I get the central character. Then two ideas I thought were completely separate suddenly collide, revealing themselves to be…
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Raspberries On The Yangtze
Karen Wallace describes a journey down memory lane. In search of inspiration for her first novel, Karen Wallace went back…
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Jonny Wright – Letter To My Younger Self
The industry is all about minimising risk and so you yourself have to take that risk. Obviously to take big…
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Break Point: Pascale Petit & Penny Hancock
In ‘Break Point’, Pascale Petit describes a life-shaking family re-emergence, and Penny Hancock takes us through setback and loss to…
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Anita Mason – Life-changing Literature
Puzzles, mirrors, infinite regressions, paradoxes; these perfectly crafted, erudite stories – despite their appeal to the intellect – grip like…
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Helen Grant – Writers Who Inspire Me
He paid his groom an extra five pounds a year to wake him up early every morning with a cup…
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Crimes Of Passion
In time of war you can be shot for it, but as Fraser Grace finds, collaboration is an occupational hazard…