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There’s much to be embarrassed about in-between the covers of my six novels, but thank god bad sex ain’t one…
Tobias Jones wrote his latest novel using sixteenth-century English. The 1549 ‘Prayer Book Rebellion’ was a revolt against the imposition…
I will edit and re-edit for a few hours and only then move on to the blank screen, the next…
Brian McAvera’s audio diary tours us through Bordeaux and the serendipity of field research. Brian McAvera takes us to Bordeaux,…
For every J.K. Rowling there are thousands of writers for whom the minimum wage would be serious improvement on reality.
Visiting the Bethlem Royal Hospital archives allowed Miranda Miller to enter into the world of a nineteenth-century asylum. The artist…
The next person who gave me permission to write was my best friend. We would swap sword and sorcery books…
Hugh Thomson speaks with George Miller about travel writing and the fascinations of Peru. Hugh Thomson explains how he started…
Beroul’s Tristan introduced me to a world which was concrete, physically very present and peopled with personalities who were many…
Jan Marsh looks into the murkier depths of historical non-fiction. Jan Marsh came to believe she had discovered the real-life…
There’s no one around to practice Eurovision dance routines with, or to play Monopoly. You watched ‘Moonraker’ on VHS yesterday.
Fiona Shaw speaks with Frances Byrnes about being unexpectedly driven to write by her own severe emotions. Fiona Shaw tells…
