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Playwright Brian McAvera squares up to Samuel Beckett. Can a British or Irish playwright ever escape the influence of Samuel…
I’m the eldest of four children and I often say that when you’re part of a big family it’s hard…
Jonathan Gregson speaks with Jonathan Gregson about Himalayan adventures. Jonathan Gregson speaks with James McConnachie about travelling the Himalaya by…
Doug Johnstone gives us a good look at his head in his Writer’s Talisman film. Doug Johnstone gives us a…
My writing Muse, with love in her eyes, was pointing the way to literary paradise. Where could it go wrong?
Paul Sayer considers the ‘seething brawny’ novels of the working-class north. The great novels of the northern, working-class male experience…
Every now and then I will start a book with this, “come on then, let’s see what’s so good about…
Kathleen Jones explains how a successful book nearly destroyed her career, and Mick Jackson explores the strange time dilation of…
Every type of literature entices me. I genuinely cannot imagine what life would be like without the ability to write…
Cynthia Rogerson leafs through the landmark letters of her life. ded for publication but that does not lessen their potential…
I grew up in an extraordinary place and, fuelled by books, possibility seemed stitched-in just below the surface of the…
John Siddique tells Frances Byrnes about his troubled childhood and literary development. John Siddique speaks with Frances Byrnes about his…
