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Ian McMillan
Ian McMillan diverts Geoff Hatterley with tales of Barnsley, rubber jam tarts and a very strange game of chess. Ian…
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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.
Bethan Roberts – Letter To My Younger Self
Cherish your friends. It seems impossible at the moment but you will make good friends over the next four years…
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The Scoop Effect
Brian Clegg considers one of the pitfalls of original research. The discovery of a previously unpublished document about the eccentric…
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Lucinda Hawksley – Life-changing Literature
Now she is able to talk again she has told me that it really got through to her. I will…
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Cynthia Rogerson & Brian McAvera
Cynthia Rogerson explores expatriatism and why Scotland beats California, and Brian McAvera deplores our neglect of non-naturalistic theatre. Cynthia Rogerson…
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David Stuart Davies – My Reading Habits
Some novels shine with their brilliance, whereas others seem to have arrived on the best-selling list by luck.
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On The Trail Of John Clare
The author follows in the footsteps of the famous poet who – almost – visited his home-town. Rob Chapman’s hometown…
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Philippa Stockley – The Best Advice I Ever Received
The sort of dignity that comes from using the smallest word for the job, the right word for the job;…
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Mavis Cheek, part 1
Mavis Cheek speaks with James McConnachie about challenging beginnings and discovering her brain. Mavis Cheek speaks with James McConnachie about…
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Donny O’Rourke – Life-changing Literature
Literature was more life-like that life itself. Between hard covers I began to recognise myself.
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The Battle Of Orgreave
Martyn Bedford considers the sometimes incongruous ways that stories can arise. Watching a televised report in his Kowloon bedsit of…
John Siddique – Writers Who Inspire Me
For Mary Oliver to have even written the taboo word “loneliness” into a poem seems to me to be one…