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Travel writer Horatio Clare goes in search of wonders and finds a ‘furiously defiant faith’. As a travel writer, Horatio…
Dramatist Tina Pepler asks by what right she told stories from Syria. As a dramatist, Tina Pepler might be expected…
Catherine O’Flynn conjures the library that made her a writer. Novelist Catherine O’Flynn recalls the smell of ‘old books, damp…
Poet Pascale Petit charts her obsession with a black jaguar in a Paris zoo. For four years, the poet Pascale…
Keith Tutt considers the great unfinished novels, and what he might yet leave behind. Writers have after-lives, lived out in…
Nicholas Murray praises poetry that dares to get political. Stridency, polemicism, ineffectiveness — political poetry is often criticised. Nicholas Murray,…
Novelist Michael Jecks investigates the historical realism of George MacDonald Fraser. Harry Flashman is a fictional character borrowed from a…
Poetry not only changes the reader — it works on the writer too. John Greening asks how. Poets have always…
Lucinda Hawksley’s quest to see every species of whale has an unexpected conclusion. Lucinda Hawksley is not the first writer…
Researching a novel about a grisly hotel led Michelle Lovric to a grislier reality. The murderous hotel that Michelle Lovric…
Novelist James Wilson tries to conjure history by giving it voice. istorical novelists always risk accusations of pastiche, and never…
Wendy Moore subjects herself to hypnosis — all for the sake of research. Her fear of hypnosis did not stop…
