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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,…
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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…
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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…