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In my rewrite of It’s a Wonderful Life, George would be Georgia. On a cold Christmas Eve, she sits alone.…
Michael Bond speaks with Julia Copus about his significant ‘Three Little Things’. Michael Bond and our host Julia Copus speak…
Orkney is experiencing a cultural renaissance fuelled to a large degree by British people’s fascination with their preliterate past. I…
Surely this has been done before? The answer, invariably, is: ‘Well, yes, it has been done,’ (after all, what hasn’t?)…
One of my literal bottom drawers has jumpers in it and sometimes, if I don’t shut it fast enough, a…
Gerry Cambridge looks at some of the difficulties around poetry reviewing. Gerry Cambridge, longtime editor of poetry magazine, The Dark…
I’m a very active and social person so I find it especially hard to lock myself away. It makes me…
Writers discuss their desert island book. Emma Darwin, Robbie Hudson, Helen Grant, Jon Mayhew, Fraser Grace and Caroline Brothers discuss…
Lucy Flannery speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about creative phases, live theatre and adapting the classics. Lucy Flannery speaks with Catherine…
“So?” raised uncomfortable questions. Aren’t we always battling against that nasty little question? On bad days it undermines, on good…
Rejection is familiar to every writer. It was already familiar to me when I first sent out my book proposal,…
Bruce Chatwin turned down the Thomas Cook Travel Book of the Year award, and its cheque, because, he averred, ‘I’m…
