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Marina Benjamin examines the changing role of the personal voice in contemporary memoir, and Alyson Hallett takes us to Charles…
Two very different teachers put the crazy notion into my head that the daughter of an Irish labourer and a…
Chance can play a part in researching a book — as Rick Stroud has reason to know. Chance encounters and…
All of my reasons are personal, and selfish. It’s absorbing, challenging and so on. It also sounds cool, and there’s…
Cynthia Rogerson speaks with James McConnachie about ensuring realism, disliking positive discrimination and enduring chick-lit covers. Cynthia Rogerson speaks with…
What made my admiration of Alan Plater complete was that there were a number of years when both he and…
How Beatrice Colin found inspiration in a Scottish garden Research for a novel led Beatrice Colin to Argyllshire’s Benmore Gardens,…
Mark Piggott’s journey from school leaver to novelist, via journalism and a no-beer year. Mark Piggott takes us on his…
Ted Hughes went on to stress how important it was to keep my creative energies at top pressure by living…
Horatio Clare ponders the necessary pragmatism of the practising writer, and Clare Pollard celebrates the long tradition of nonsense verse.…
I lie silently as the last dregs of my once transcendent seriousness drain away. What I’m mostly feeling now is…
Sally Cline describes what it’s like to live in two cities on different sides of the Atlantic. For many years,…
