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Something about each of these ideas was compelling enough to force me to scrutinise and start the creative process; but…
Once I’ve selected one of the poems clamouring for attention as a sacrificial victim, I’ll send it off to one…
Tolstoy liked to go out with a scythe and work with the peasants. I’m not a nineteenth century Russian landowner,…
The first Iris Murdoch novel I ever read, aged about fourteen, was The Flight from the Enchanter. It was like…
There are huge gaps in our knowledge of the witch hunts. This is mainly due to illiteracy; in 1600 only…
I’m suspicious if the idea of a work-life, or writing life, balance is conscripted into a goal-driven agenda that has…
Nature liberated Mary Kingsley from the bondage of self, and she prolonged her liberation by writing about it. Nature liberated…
The story of Barbara Pym’s rediscovery by the literary world, sixteen years after being dropped by her publisher must give…
What issues from my pen is like a kind of linear stalagmite; the essential sediment of its sentences built up,…
I wasn’t always a serial killer. It took twenty years of hard cuts, brutal edits and fatal backspaces before my…
I splashed out on an Apple PowerBook Duo 210. A very early laptop with four whole megabytes of RAM. And…
My last novel was set in a hotel on an island off the coast of Tuscany, and for the year…
