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News & Features

Check out the latest news from the RLF, WritersMosaic highlights, and Collected – our collection of interviews, reflections and articles exploring the literary life and world of writers today.

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There Is Always The Other Side…

Cherise Saywell on what a favourite novel means to her. Jean Rhys’s 1966 novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, captivated Cherise Saywell…

Princess Louise
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The Mystery Of Princess Louise

Lucinda Hawksley describes her quest to uncover the truth about a ‘much-maligned’ member of the Royal Family. When Lucinda Hawksley…

Hummingbird
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Hummingbirds And Demonstrations

Ruth Thomas recalls interesting times in Argentina during the nineteen-nineties. Re-reading the diaries she wrote during the early nineteen-nineties, when…

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Throwing Things Away

Letters, photographs, newspaper cuttings… writers have always found inspiration in ephemera. Some have carried hoarding to excess, as Nicolette Jones…

Illuminations from the Codex Aureus
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The Ransom Of The Golden Gospel

Max Adams pieces together the history of the Golden Gospel, an eighth century illuminated manuscript. The peripatetic history of the…

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Pseudonyms

John Pilkington considers the reason why authors like to hide their identities. Why do some writers choose to use a…

Death Tarot card
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Tarot As A Tool For Writing

Diane Samuels discovers in the Tarot a ‘universal language for the imagination’. Generally associated with fortune-telling rather than story-telling, the…

Moving Pictures
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Moving Pictures, Moving Words

Linda Buckley-Archer considers the relationship between the novel and cinema. Although primarily a visual medium, the cinema has always relied…

Moebius strip
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Number Crunching

A fascination with mathematics prompted Brian McCabe to explore new directions in his poetry. Brian McCabe’s fascination with mathematics began…

How You Feel
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‘I know exactly how you feel’

Anna Reynolds describes the challenges of turning real lives into drama. Working with a group of young carers, on a…

Double vision
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Double Vision

Miranda Miller’s approach to writing her fiction involves an idiosyncratic way of ‘seeing’ the past. As a writer of historical…

Yorkshire
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Haunted By The Brontës

Katharine McMahon describes her fascination with the Brontë sisters, and the way their lives have been interwoven with her own.…