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Andrew Miller – Why I Write
If I’d had to sum it up in a word – the motive force behind my writing – I might…
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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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Amanda Mitchison – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
‘Welcome home Odysseus. I’m glad you finally made it back. I’m relieved that you had a bath and got yourself…
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My Favourite Author, part 2
In ‘My Favourite Author’, RLF writers explore the influence that favourite authors have had on their own work. In this…
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Sophie Duffy – Letter To My Teachers
Thank you to Sister Marie Joseph, for reading us Bible stories every day, shining a light on a world of…
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Katherine Stansfield – The Best Advice I Ever Received
What she said helped, in part because of that careful use of tense: ‘When your first book is published, everything…
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Clare Morgan – Dreams And The Writer
I’d rewrite Shakespeare’s Tempest. I hadn’t read it, but Caliban was all I needed to know. I re-formed the play…
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Martin MacInnes – The Writer And Nature
Terms have been coined to describe novels that do not ignore climate catastrophe and ecological collapse: ‘cli-fi’, ‘eco-fiction,’ ‘speculative fiction’.…
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A Life In Bookshops
Sonia Faleiro writes in praise of independent booksellers. Sonia Faleiro shares how independent booksellers – from India to Italy –…
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Kate Rhodes – How I Write
Suddenly I could write all day. When horses are released from stables after being locked inside, they gallop across open…
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Robin Etherington – Why I Write
Most of those artists I met when I was a boy shared one thing. They wanted to create more than…
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Polly Morland
Polly Morland speaks with Caroline Sanderson about film-making leading to vocational non-fiction, blending ideas for different disciplines and telling human…
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Susan Fletcher – Inspiration
I love maps for their own intrinsic beauty — their colours and outlines. I love them for helping me to…