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Paul Dowswell speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about publishers, dramatic stories and a key message for young readers. Paul Dowswell speaks…
The first Iris Murdoch novel I ever read, aged about fourteen, was The Flight from the Enchanter. It was like…
There are huge gaps in our knowledge of the witch hunts. This is mainly due to illiteracy; in 1600 only…
Martin MacInnes on his long quest for the perfect writing conditions. Martin MacInnes on his long quest for the perfect…
I’m suspicious if the idea of a work-life, or writing life, balance is conscripted into a goal-driven agenda that has…
Nature liberated Mary Kingsley from the bondage of self, and she prolonged her liberation by writing about it. Nature liberated…
The story of Barbara Pym’s rediscovery by the literary world, sixteen years after being dropped by her publisher must give…
Paul Dowswell speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about childhood classics, his early career and knowing what you’re good at. Paul Dowswell…
What issues from my pen is like a kind of linear stalagmite; the essential sediment of its sentences built up,…
I wasn’t always a serial killer. It took twenty years of hard cuts, brutal edits and fatal backspaces before my…
I splashed out on an Apple PowerBook Duo 210. A very early laptop with four whole megabytes of RAM. And…
Anna Wilson asks, is it ethical to write a memoir that focuses on someone other than the author? Anna Wilson…
