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Paula Hawkins worked as a journalist for fifteen years before turning to fiction. She is the author of two #1 New York…
This is what I’ve come to believe. No matter how long I live in a country I wasn’t born in,…
Is it possible to depict dramatically The Holocaust without descending into morbid fascination?
There is a myth about the business of being an author. It goes something like this: “Once upon a time…
RLF Fellow Dr Kerry Young has spent seven years running Writing for Life workshops. But what exactly is writing for…
Adam Gopnik says there are three types of essay: review essays, memoir essays, and what he calls ‘odd-object’ essays. I’m…
“It’s all about people expressing or discovering what kind of stuff they’ve got in the back catalogue of themselves, the…
“The simplicity of it is key,” says Dr Edson Burton, writer, historian, playwright and tutor, who is running a RLF Reading Round group…
RLF Fellow and playwright Marcy Kahan examines seven aspects of W. Somerset Maugham’s remarkable life and career.
1. My first novel, In the Place of Fallen leaves, was published in 1993. I gave a nerve-wracking public reading…
Bidisha Mamata is a writer, broadcaster and an artist who makes films and stills. She is the author of the…
The year is 1978. I’m sixteen years old. I’ve just begun in the sixth form of Boston Spa Comprehensive West…
