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Annie Caulfield ventures to South Sudan to work on a radio soap. Tribal hostilities, polygamous jealousies and farming disasters are…
An ambulant audio story by Peter Guttridge doesn’t so much respond to the spirit of a Scarborough cemetery as actually…
Charles Jennings descends into his own, private hell of self-reflexive novelising. Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Doris Lessing, John Fowles, A.S.…
After his father’s death, Jonathan Tulloch writes for the first time about his relationship with the man and his notebook…
Sue Purkiss goes digging for Alfred and turns up Aethelflaed instead. Researching a children’s book set in the time of…
Times New Roman? Jonathan Falla would as soon serve malt whisky in a styrofoam cup. As a young man, Jonathan…
Jill Dawson travels to Fort Worth, Texas, and finds the source of Patricia Highsmith’s pain. A ‘little hell’ was how…
Katharine Quarmby explores how adoption shapes the writer’s identity. As a transracial adoptee, Katharine Quarmby wondered if her family stories…
Ron Butlin offers a backstage tour of the opera librettist’s strange and specialised world. Writers are not often told ‘the…
Roopa Farooki ‘leans in’ to Joyce’s masterpiece. The best way to challenge the anxiety of influence, for Roopa Farooki, was…
John Greening explores unusual poetic materials. From William Carlos Williams’ prescription pads to George Szirtes’ Twitter-length stanzas, the medium has…
Why did Conan Doyle murder Sherlock Holmes? David Stuart Davies investigates. David Stuart Davies, a world authority on Sherlock Holmes,…
