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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.

Dublin
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In The Footsteps Of James Joyce

Christina Koning finally gets to visit a city she’s come to know through the pages of a book. Visiting Dublin…

Young girl working in shop
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Cafés, Chemists And Holiday Camps

Isabel Ashdown on the advantages for a writer of early experience of work.. The Saturday jobs of our youth played an important…

Handwritten letter
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Joys Of Earth

Gerry Cambridge considers some of the joys of writing – and receiving – letters, and says you should never throw…

Two For the Road
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Two For the Road Revisited

Marcy Kahan considers how a film she first watched at the age of fourteen affected her choice of career. Stanley…

New York Shed
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Building New York

Virginia Woolf and George Bernard Shaw make formidable heroes but it’s not their writing that most inspires Fraser Grace. A…

Chance
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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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My Secret Life

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

Oblique Strategies
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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…

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…