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I find my escape from words in photography, art galleries and museums, and music. By building or perceiving shapes that…
I was convinced it was an exceedingly difficult thing to change direction as a writer, almost like a cricketer deciding…
The gulf between the synopsis and the novel is ineffable, bridgeable only by the writing of the book. The gulf…
As an adult, I’ve formed the habit of taking seasonal notes almost every day. It feels like reaching out a…
I’ve written books that deal with post-traumatic stress, with mental health issues, with homelessness and missing persons, suicide and survival…
Ian McEwan seemed cheered that the delivery boy on his cold doorstep — dressed all working class and salt of…
The Brandon Estate community mural is huge. On the wall are images of the Chartists, kite-flyers, the Empire Windrush ship…
Does any writer, in fact, work well to a background of distraction? His son’s violin practice drove Philip Pullman to…
I frequently think that if I’d had any sense I’d have given up all other forms of writing and concentrated…
By the time I was working on my fourth novel, The Thousand Lights Hotel, I was thirty-six and my son…
What should a writer do when someone says no? With poems sent to magazines, that’s life. It’s unlikely to have…
Ophelia’s story is so unjust and so slight, that I would give her more of a backbone and her story…
