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Michael Blackburn speaks with Geoff Hattersley about poetry, The Establishment and being a ‘Grand-père Terrible’. Michael Blackburn speaks with Geoff…
Cynthia Rogerson’s talisman is a piece of writing – a letter from a famous novelist. Cynthia Rogerson explains how she…
Ignore those who tell you that your poetry is too personal, too intimate, or lyrical. Remember, these are the very…
Ruth Thomas recalls interesting times in Argentina during the nineteen-nineties. Re-reading the diaries she wrote during the early nineteen-nineties, when…
John Keay speaks with James McConnachie about hands-on historical research, and his best writing advice. John Keay speaks with James…
For her ability to seize precisely the right historical detail to fix a story in time and place, Bainbridge is…
Just write the next line. Someone says something; there’s always a reply. Now I could begin.
Letters, photographs, newspaper cuttings… writers have always found inspiration in ephemera. Some have carried hoarding to excess, as Nicolette Jones…
This is the book I come back to once a year. This is the story that makes me want to…
Charles Boyle considers why writers sometimes stop writing, and Kevin Clarke details a secret crime of the screen-writing trade. Charles…
If you write too, let me encourage you to write from the writer in you, before the word “writer” takes…
Max Adams pieces together the history of the Golden Gospel, an eighth century illuminated manuscript. The peripatetic history of the…
