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James Wilson describes how Robert Louis Stevenson helped reconcile his split selves. Robert Louis Stevenson is the patron saint of…
Julia Copus examines why the poet Charlotte Mew is not better known. Charlotte Mew ought to be better known. Brittle,…
James McConnachie, in search of a book idea, rekindles a lost passion. Eager for a book project to plunge into,…
John Pilkington finds literary inspiration in the espionage of 16th-century Christendom. 400 years before Burgess, Philby and Maclean, spies recruited…
Clare Pollard ponders what kind of China Ezra Pound could invent when he’d never been there and didn’t know the…
Roopa Farooki discusses how tapping her unconscious mind allowed her writing to soar. Roopa Farooki’s problem has never been writer’s…
Tom Bryan discusses how to achieve a literary legacy. Cervantes spoke of the ‘strange charm’ in hoping for a good…
When ‘austerity theatre’ must cut the cloth to fit tight financial constraints, the result is smaller casts, simpler sets and…
Jo Mazelis was born in Wales and lives there now, but she resists being pegged as a ‘local author’ just…
In Mexico today real-life crime is both stranger and more egregious than fiction. But where does this leave writers who…
The novelist Anna Haycraft (Alice Thomas Ellis) died of lung cancer in 2005. Deborah Bosley, who along with Beryl Bainbridge,…
Writer’s block has become a cliché of Grub Street patois. At best it’s lazy terminology, at worst, a poor excuse…
