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I still borrow books from the library but I have fulfilled a childhood wish: I have shelves stuffed with books…
David Davies on how he – and other crime writers – think up their ingenious plots. Faced with the perennial…
Marina Benjamin speaks with James McConnachie about midlife, melancholy and the lost age of space exploration. Marina Benjamin speaks with…
I use writing to figure out where I fit in: where my responsibility begins and ends, and what shape it…
At 17, you are Catholic-Boy’s School shy of girls and drink; don’t become a Donny-Juan.
How Charles Jennings finds solace in his suburban surroundings. The suburbs have often been dismissed as dull, but for Charles…
Esther Selsdon’s audio diary features Stalin memorabilia, matchgirls strikes and Soviet cinema. Esther Selsdon shares a late summer writing week…
Your idea hovers out of reach. It offers hope, and threatens despair; there’s a story here, it whispers, but are…
Those heaps of books in the living room left as if to mark my territory, with their scruffy bookmarks, torn…
When Brian McAvera came to write his sequence of plays on ‘Picasso’s women’, he realised that his approach to each…
Brian McAvera describes how he came to write his series of plays on the women in Picasso’s life. When Brian…
I was a Betjemaniac; I wore a Larkin smile. My writing desk was Auden-esque, til Yeats became my style.
