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John Pilkington investigates the writerly practice of reimagining and reworking characters from other authors’ stories. Since Shakespeare delighted Elizabeth I…
Karin Altenberg sets off on her own Missouri River mission. For her latest novel, Karin Altenberg set out to experience…
As ‘the book that changed me’, Harry Ritchie’s nomination is very surprising. Thomson and Martinet’s classic manual of English grammar…
Lucy Jago travels to the Arctic Circle in search of the scientist who revealed the mystery of the Northern Lights.…
Novelist and devoted listener Katharine Grant rejoices in the audiobook. Audiobooks are for non-readers, thought Katharine Grant — before she…
Cynan Jones unpeels the lives of an ancient Welsh cottage. When he first saw the ruined cottage, as an eleven-year-old,…
Nick Holdstock, writer and professional destroyer of books, makes his confession. Where do books go to die? Writer and bibliophile…
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…
