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Christie Dickason – Letter To My Younger Self
Everything has already been said? Yes, probably, but not in the way that you would say it.
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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.
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Talking To The Dead
Sarah LeFanu searches for the ghosts of Doyle and Kipling in Bloemfontein. Travelling for biographical research can lead to all…
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My True Genre
The RLF takes an inside look at the shoals of literary genre, and how writers navigate them. The RLF takes…
John Greening – Why I Write
If you have to ask yourself why you write, then you probably shouldn’t be doing it. In my experience the…
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Red Pomegranates, Red Covers
Are travel guidebooks for travellers or readers? John Keay sets out to answer a 200-year-old question. Travel guidebooks burst with…
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Podcast
Elizabeth Speller, part 1
Elizabeth Speller speaks with George Miller about her non-fiction books, including Hadrian’s biography and a family memoir. Elizabeth Speller talks…
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Alicia Foster – Life-changing Literature
It knocked my socks off when I read it and utterly transformed my view of a novel I thought I…
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‘The Wounded Surgeon Plies The Steel…’
Christina Koning wonders why she made her fictional detective blind. Campaigners are calling for more fiction – particularly children’s and…
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The Monkeys
Ruth Thomas shares her Writer’s Talisman — a personal Three Wise Monkeys. Ruth Thomas shares her Writer’s Talisman — the…
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Amanda Whittington & William Palmer part 2
Amanda Whittington shares her audio diary ‘My Writing Week’, and we conclude William Palmer’s interview with Carole Angier. Amanda Whittington…
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Christina Koning – Why I Write
There is enormous pleasure to be had from playing around with language; I can honestly say I enjoy the editing…
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The House Of Songs
Donny O’Rourke traces his poetry back to his father’s long musical silence. In Scotland the seannachie is a bard who…