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The novelist Anna Haycraft (Alice Thomas Ellis) died of lung cancer in 2005. Deborah Bosley, who along with Beryl Bainbridge,…
Once I had to write an essay as a punishment and even this was read out. I would have been…
Kapka Kassabova speaks with Kona Macphee about exile, tango and chronic longing. Kapka Kassabova speaks with Kona Macphee about exile,…
Writer’s block has become a cliché of Grub Street patois. At best it’s lazy terminology, at worst, a poor excuse…
On the days when I do write and when that writing is going well, I feel transformed. I become my…
The writer’s duty: Kate Colquhoun on disturbing non-fiction, and Katie Grant on borrowing the dead. Kate Colquhoun explores the responsibilities…
For much of the 20th century, George Orwell’s boot stamping on a head was a better metaphor for political repression…
I was desperate to be a real reporter, telling real stories. Though I have to say I came to feel…
Emma Darwin advises Annie Caulfield about how to write a novel. Emma Darwin is a novelist experimenting with radio plays.…
Timothy Leary considered Herman Hesse to be the ‘master guide’ to the hallucinatory experience; at 19, Paul Sayer, obsessed with…
The most vivid impression I carry with me from the privileged two years I spent as a Royal Literary Fund…
Jo Shapcott speaks with Julia Copus about the importance of sound in her poetry. Jo Shapcott speaks with Julia Copus…
