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I’d rewrite Shakespeare’s Tempest. I hadn’t read it, but Caliban was all I needed to know. I re-formed the play…
Terms have been coined to describe novels that do not ignore climate catastrophe and ecological collapse: ‘cli-fi’, ‘eco-fiction,’ ‘speculative fiction’.…
Suddenly I could write all day. When horses are released from stables after being locked inside, they gallop across open…
Most of those artists I met when I was a boy shared one thing. They wanted to create more than…
I love maps for their own intrinsic beauty — their colours and outlines. I love them for helping me to…
A thoroughly enjoyable event for my World War One novel was based around a period afternoon tea, complete with posters,…
Choosing precisely the right piece of text to submit to the cursor’s jaw or the pencil’s jab is never fortuitous.…
‘What are you up to?’ she asked. Her friend replied, ‘I’m bleaching the spoons.’ This friend was Val McDermid and…
To see the world afresh we ‘make it strange’. It is also a way of creeping close to realities and…
I think about books all the time. Books I’ve read and books I want to read. I compile lists in…
Some young adults are turning away from apps that find ever more devious ways to devour their attention, and towards…
Being bullied taught me a valuable lesson: I became self-reliant, learned to look inside for sustenance. It made me, I…
