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Angela Patmore speaks about her interest in extreme psychology, cerebral climaxes and her controversial research on stress. Angela Patmore speaks…
Trader Faulkner tells the tale of a most unusual bullfight. Trader Faulkner tells the tale of a most unusual bullfight.
Angela Patmore talks about her love of dogs and her latest dog book. Angela Patmore talks about her love of…
I write because everyone’s got a book in them, and I want to get all mine published before the rush…
The difference between me and my neighbour’s friend, I guess, was that, later that evening when I went home, I…
My version culminated in Attila and the Pope having a duel to the death outside the gates of Rome; as…
You’re a man now lad, you’ve got to be strong for your mother. So that’s what I did. I stood…
Except for the supremely confident, the arrogant and the self-deluded, writing is an unsatisfactory occupation of wickedly high highs and…
As I sulked around chilly convent corridors, I imagined that a writing life would be all late rising and escaping…
It’s a messy process too. Full of delight and verve and sparkle, as well as failure, submission, defeat.
I hunched over my desk and read photocopies of novels; the photocopies passing for law reports.
I write non-fiction now. I reckon it’s still the best way to affect what other people think, to add to…
