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Maggie Butt – Why I Write
I was taken to the library for a fresh crop of books every week; a magic carpet ride to a…
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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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Katherine Stansfield considers how travelling by train can lead to inspiration for the writer. For Katherine Stansfield, travelling by train…
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Cynthia Rogerson – Writers Who Inspire Me
Overall when I write I try to replicate not so much these writers’ characters, or plots or styles, but the…
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The Raptor
John Keay’s talisman is changeable in more ways than one. Historian John Keay has a changeable talisman, which most recently…
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Horatio Clare, part 1
Horatio Clare speaks with James McConnachie about sheep-farming, criminal records and waiting for the right time to write. Horatio Clare…
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Tim Walker – Why I Write
I realised that – belatedly – I wanted more of a say. So that was the first reason I wanted…
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In The Footsteps Of James Joyce
Christina Koning finally gets to visit a city she’s come to know through the pages of a book. Visiting Dublin…
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Lucy Jago – Why I Write
When I write I disappear. I can go anywhere. I am entirely free.
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Clare Pollard
Clare Pollard talks with Julia Copus about motherhood, politics, and being labeled a literary ‘Bad Girl’. Clare Pollard talks with…
Rob Chapman – My Reading Habits
I am a voracious and obsessive researcher, quite happy to read or at least skim-read an entire book in the…
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Cafés, Chemists And Holiday Camps
Isabel Ashdown on the advantages for a writer of early experience of work.. The Saturday jobs of our youth played an important…
Horatio Clare – Why I Write
Recording these things as I look at them and telling you about them as exactly as I can gives me…