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Why do I go through this? I’m fifty-five years old. I’ve had twelve books published, and I’ve had thirty-six years…
The main reason I struggle to be genre fluid is that to write good historical novels you need two sets…
Eventually, creeping industrialisation and the seizure and loss of his beloved countryside caused John Clare such anguish it sent him…
I returned to UEA to teach on the MA, and though I still valued Angela Carter’s advice to me, it…
It seems I share the writing fetishes of several people. I conclude, that I’m unusually neurotic and pervy. It seems…
Lectio interruptus. Unfinished reading. That, regrettably, is what my reading habits today consist of; procrastination, and some disorganisation. Lectio interruptus.…
Knowledge of life in these cities — that I could never have acquired without inhabiting them — surfaced in my…
On the hour-long car ride to the hotel, I kept seeing banners bearing my face. I wondered if lack of…
Cambridgeshire, or what I still think of as ‘Huntingdonshire’, has become the perfect place for me to write in. We…
As far as I can tell, I’m the incredibly lucky kind of writer who has no trouble with ideas. That…
A chapter is written, then re-written overnight by my dreaming mind and recast in the morning. A chapter is written,…
Looking back, I think I always had my guard up. Most of my school friends were white; I’m black, and…
