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Sonia Faleiro writes in praise of independent booksellers. Sonia Faleiro shares how independent booksellers – from India to Italy –…
Suddenly I could write all day. When horses are released from stables after being locked inside, they gallop across open…
Most of those artists I met when I was a boy shared one thing. They wanted to create more than…
Polly Morland speaks with Caroline Sanderson about film-making leading to vocational non-fiction, blending ideas for different disciplines and telling human…
I love maps for their own intrinsic beauty — their colours and outlines. I love them for helping me to…
A thoroughly enjoyable event for my World War One novel was based around a period afternoon tea, complete with posters,…
Choosing precisely the right piece of text to submit to the cursor’s jaw or the pencil’s jab is never fortuitous.…
Sarah Butler describes how she went from poetry sceptic to poetry enthusiast. Sarah Butler describes how she went from poetry…
‘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…
