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In ‘Break Point’, Pascale Petit describes a life-shaking family re-emergence, and Penny Hancock takes us through setback and loss to…
Puzzles, mirrors, infinite regressions, paradoxes; these perfectly crafted, erudite stories – despite their appeal to the intellect – grip like…
He paid his groom an extra five pounds a year to wake him up early every morning with a cup…
In time of war you can be shot for it, but as Fraser Grace finds, collaboration is an occupational hazard…
I remember the fresh surge of determination as I turned back to my screen, applied myself once more to the…
Rupert Christiansen speaks with Frances Byrnes about roots and careers, being a ‘jobbing writer’ and being inspired by Don Draper.…
I feel a kick in the stomach, a tug at the heart, and I know that this germ of an…
I was always envious of the flute section in the orchestra at school; a row of neat-looking, trendy girls who…
Katherine Stansfield on her experiences of being a live-in writer in a public institution. No two writing residencies are the…
Diane (Middlebrook)’s study, which crucially extended the right to examine private life, was a turning point in late twentieth century…
In new series ‘Location and the Writer’, we visit a Cumbrian hill-farm, a suburban shopping centre and a literary capital…
She’d come across the opening buried deep in another chapter. Re-reading that early version and drawing up her plan, the…
