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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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My Secret Life

Sally Cline describes what it’s like to live in two cities on different sides of the Atlantic. For many years,…

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Oblique Strategies

Writers of a mixed heritage, argues Ray French, can have an advantage when it comes to exploring cultural and racial…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…