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All At Sea
Roy Bainton describes his battle to make a film version of the life of Captain Kidd. Long before Pirates of…
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A World Of Reading
For a year, Ann Morgan read only books originally written in languages other than English — and made some surprising…
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Structure Versus Free Form
Writing for different mediums — and the challenges it presents Writing for television made David Lloyd adept at working to…
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Away With The Fairies
Zoë Marriott speculates on what made her a writer — and why she’s happy to be ‘away with the fairies’.…
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Tracks
Katherine Stansfield considers how travelling by train can lead to inspiration for the writer. For Katherine Stansfield, travelling by train…
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In The Footsteps Of James Joyce
Christina Koning finally gets to visit a city she’s come to know through the pages of a book. Visiting Dublin…
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Cafés, Chemists And Holiday Camps
Isabel Ashdown on the advantages for a writer of early experience of work.. The Saturday jobs of our youth played an important…
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Joys Of Earth
Gerry Cambridge considers some of the joys of writing – and receiving – letters, and says you should never throw…
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Two For the Road Revisited
Marcy Kahan considers how a film she first watched at the age of fourteen affected her choice of career. Stanley…
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Building New York
Virginia Woolf and George Bernard Shaw make formidable heroes but it’s not their writing that most inspires Fraser Grace. A…
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Finding The Letters
Chance can play a part in researching a book — as Rick Stroud has reason to know. Chance encounters and…
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‘A flower will never be just a flower again…’
How Beatrice Colin found inspiration in a Scottish garden Research for a novel led Beatrice Colin to Argyllshire’s Benmore Gardens,…