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Harry Ritchie – How I Write
I think I would rather read the Shades of Grey trilogy that re-read one of my novels. Wait a minute,…
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Regi Claire – Why I Write
Perhaps you were never young? Perhaps you came into existence fully fledged as a know all? But perhaps you were…
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Cooking The Books
Donny O’Rourke explores some culinary memories. Childhood memories of watching his mother cook inspired Donny O’Rourke’s lifelong interest in cooking…
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Tania Hershman – Why I Write
For the first forty-four years of my life I’ve always felt in some way or other, myself, wrong. For the…
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The Translator’s Subtle Art
Sarah Ardizzone and Euan Cameron speak with Nick Caistor about the joys, challenges and constraints of translation. Sarah Ardizzone and…
James McConnachie – My Reading Habits
Over the years I’ve developed a system of book mutilation, mastication and digestion all of my own. The reason I’m…
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Scarlet Ribbons
Rosemary Bailey on bringing out a new edition of a book about her late brother. Twenty years after first publishing…
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Lucy Flannery – Why I Write
I was constructing narrative long before I could actually write it. If no one ever read or performed my work…
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Lorna Thorpe
Lorna Thorpe speaks with Geoff Hattersley about starting late as a writer, her wild youth, literary influences and her six…
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Neil Rollinson – How I Write
These fanciful accounts seek to minimise the role of the artist or the writer as if they were merely a…
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‘Only Connect’
John Greening reflects on poetic coincidence. Can coincidence, that seemingly magical conjunction of events, play a part in poetry? John…
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Lynn Knight – Writers Who Inspire Me
I write biography, social history and memoir and yet I have learned from them all; factual writing borrowing some of…