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Clare Colvin explores the hidden rooms that have inspired historical novels. The strange, diminutive ‘dwarf’s apartment’ in Mantua’s Ducal Palace…
Jill Dawson tells Frances Byrnes about writing’s ‘pleasure not punishment’, the importance of physicality and the inspiring richness of the…
I was a man with two brains, two separate personalities that were more often at odds with each other than…
Jane Corry reflects on her time ‘inside’, as writer-in-residence at a high-security prison. Prison changes you, it is said. It…
Alex Martin speaks with Carole Angier about his early journey from children’s writing through textbooks to delightful decadence. Alex Martin…
Perhaps a more thoughtful answer is that I write from a sense of horror, so not from a love of…
Catherine Czerkawska investigates Robert Burns’s artistic debt to his often-overlooked wife, Jean Armour. Robert Burns is better known for his…
Jane Feaver explores nostalgia and the pastoral, and Katharine McMahon goes on location for her historical fiction. Jane Feaver examines…
You are fearless, carrying your body lightly, climbing the pear tree at the end of the garden to read books…
The voices of enslaved people are almost entirely lost to history. Bristolian novelist Sanjida O’Connell seeks to fill that terrible…
Ian Duhig speaks with Julia Copus about his early life and his famous Lammas Hireling. Ian Duhig speaks with Julia…
In this short animation, Alexander Hutchison shares his love of libraries. Sandy sadly died in November 2015. In this short…
