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‘What are you up to?’ she asked. Her friend replied, ‘I’m bleaching the spoons.’ This friend was Val McDermid and…
Ian Ayris speaks with Ann Morgan about storytelling as therapy, football as a form of expression and discovering Shakespeare. Ian…
To see the world afresh we ‘make it strange’. It is also a way of creeping close to realities and…
I think about books all the time. Books I’ve read and books I want to read. I compile lists in…
Some young adults are turning away from apps that find ever more devious ways to devour their attention, and towards…
Being bullied taught me a valuable lesson: I became self-reliant, learned to look inside for sustenance. It made me, I…
Richard Lambert tells of his first encounter with two famous twentieth-century forgers. Richard Lambert tells of his first encounter with…
For the entirety of my twenties, I was rejected. I took it seriously. I treated rejection like a job. I…
Every morning is a feline re-enactment of an Ancient Greek drama, with me, the inadequate director, stage manager and Chorus.…
Adriana Hunter considers the limits of automated translation, and Brian Clegg rues our human tendency to reduce the world into…
After ten years as a novelist, I find the ‘perfect’ surroundings are not necessarily as conducive to writing as I…
George Saunders develops the acronym TICHN — things I couldn’t help noticing. In other words, referring back to his advice…
