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Kevin Cadwallender describes mortifying poetic beginnings and how he wrote a pamphlet in a weekend, and shares a bear. Kevin…
On the opening night we had an audience of a thousand teenage girls screaming their heads off in derision at…
Charles Jennings descends into his own, private hell of self-reflexive novelising. Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Doris Lessing, John Fowles, A.S.…
John Keay shares his diary as he lets go of a completed book and considers the next one. John Keay…
It turns out that the quick answer to How I Write, is, in chaos. For a control freak like me…
After his father’s death, Jonathan Tulloch writes for the first time about his relationship with the man and his notebook…
Julian Evans speaks with George Miller about Norman Lewis, the purpose of biography and the biographer’s obligations. Julian Evans speaks…
If you have an image of a writer it is of someone who lives in a house in the county…
Sue Purkiss goes digging for Alfred and turns up Aethelflaed instead. Researching a children’s book set in the time of…
Eleanor Updale speaks with Kona Macphee about ‘all-ages’ writing, London sewers and the ills of modern education. Eleanor Updale speaks…
To me then it was like finding a key. It took me through a door into the next room of…
Times New Roman? Jonathan Falla would as soon serve malt whisky in a styrofoam cup. As a young man, Jonathan…
