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Miranda Miller’s approach to writing her fiction involves an idiosyncratic way of ‘seeing’ the past. As a writer of historical…
Zoë Marriott on the magic of books, snatched moments of writing and Evil Cinderella. Zoë Marriott on discovering the magic…
Kerry Young speaks with Frances Byrnes about being Chinese-Jamaican, her father’s gangster life and her mother’s Catholicism. Kerry Young speaks…
My rigid writing routines are based on the belief that the repetition of rituals itself is crucial to the writing…
I don’t know how many elements of Kwei-Armah’s real life this play had in, but it made me think I…
Katharine McMahon describes her fascination with the Brontë sisters, and the way their lives have been interwoven with her own.…
John Keay explains why ‘history is other people’, and Tobias Jones considers the fascination of true crime writing. John Keay…
For me, the act of writing can be transformative; as a children’s writer I’m suddenly allowed to imagine that postboxes…
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…
