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I’ve had fun, experimenting more than I’ve let on. My account of Robbie Williams on tour round Europe is part…
I found myself imagining a family down our street, snuggling up with my story; reading, and laughing and enjoying it…
A few weeks later, after some furious polishing, I did send David S. Garnett a story. He didn’t buy it,…
Journalist Ida Tarbell almost single-handedly took down the world’s most powerful and corrupt company, John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil. Journalist…
I suspect there are very few of you who’ve read everything I’ve written. Not least because I write across quite…
Harper Lee warned that writers need a thick hide, but even elephants and rhinos feel pain. Harper Lee warned that…
Helen Dunmore was an established writer, but she revealed how she wasn’t happy about the stories she was writing. I…
What Agatha Christie knew deep down, is that not only is the writer an outsider, but that the act of…
In modern times, completing your great work is merely the first stop on the journey. In modern times, completing your…
London is of course, a literary city, a city of writers… A few of those writers lived in my neighbourhood.…
When Inspiration does turn up, like a dodgy guest at a party, there’s no guarantee it will appreciate the nature…
I find it hard too, but decided early on that if I was serious about my career I must cope…
