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Poet Gerry Cambridge tells the story of his lifelong love of fountain pens. Poets love associations, says Gerry Cambridge. And…
I verbalise their words aloud. I copy their physical mannerisms, and re-enact crucial scenes in the ‘You talking to me?’…
Jane Feaver speaks with Julia Copus about tragedy and darkness in her unconventional pastoral novel. Jane Feaver speaks with Julia…
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…
