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Forgotten Hero
Roy Bainton relates a tale of guile and derring-do from World War I. Over too many beers one night in…
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Woolf at the Door
Nicholas Murray wonders when our obsession with the Bloomsbury set will end. Dorothy Parker claimed the Bloomsbury set painted in…
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The Authentic Hit
Deborah Chancellor says immersing yourself in another world is all the inspiration a writer needs. A serendipitous find can bring…
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Pushy Publishing
Katharine Grant ponders summer as the season of books. Do reader’s care about seasonal lists? Heavy-duty books for Autumn and…
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The Heroine’s Journey
Nicola Baldwin considers how a woman’s compromises make the world a bigger place. Hollywood’s recipe of the hero’s journey is…
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Charterhouse to Charnel House
Ian Thomson explores the psycho-geography of Thomas Lovell Beddoes’ London. In 1817 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, later poet, physician and depressive,…
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Lambing
Frances Byrnes meets Dermot Healy in a life-death situation. Living at the edge of the sea, Dermot Healy tested himself…
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When Poetry Spends the Night
Martina Evans explores switching from writing novels to poems. Martina Evans kept starting novels only to find that they turned…
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Magical Journalism
Rosemary Bailey discusses Ryszard Kapuściński and his impact on travel writing. Every so often a writer comes along and changes…
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These Tangled Webs
Diane Samuels explores how the dream of artistic collaboration can also be a nightmare. From dressing up to role-play and…
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Pressure To Be Cheerful
Staging her memoir caused fresh pain Rahila Gupta until she came to a new understanding. We write to remember, and…
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Morbid, Hideous and Delicious
Kate Colquhoun ponders why we delight in the brutal wrapped in the familiar. Victorian writers of sensation novels knew that…