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I remember the thrill of excitement that went through me. Here was my favourite TV programme in book form! It…
In ‘My Favourite Book’, RLF writers explain why particular books are so special to them. In this installment of ‘My…
When I talk to RLF students or children in schools, I show them that scribble. Inspiration often comes in snatches…
The Internet took you away from the breathtaking scene you were about to put into words. You allowed the internet…
Take two steps forward’, he said. ‘Now, what can you see?’ I described the shape of the music on the…
Simon Booker on searching for the truth about the father he never knew. Simon Booker on the unexpected consequences of…
There’s a badger set in the woods beyond the chip shop; muntjac deer in the cemetery. A few years back,…
There’s something wrong. Your inner critical voice knows it, but you can’t put your finger on the problem. It can’t…
Malachy Tallack speaks with Caroline Sanderson about growing up in Shetland, and the role of place in his fiction and…
Wipeout is a leap of faith, propelling you down a near-vertical drop until you’d spark if you weren’t drenched. Wipeout…
It’s probably no coincidence that the passages picked out by readers, as scenes that ‘stayed with them’, seem to be…
I was bundled into a double-act with the late Howard Marks, international drug trafficker turned memoirist. Our preparations were not…
