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Andrei Platonov has an unquenchable belief that ordinary people, however damaged get their act together. This is most precious of…
Outsiders masquerading as insiders. That’s how I feel when I’m writing a book. Only pretending to inhabit the everyday world.…
I am definitely not one of those people who can get up before everyone else and work for three hours.…
Watching a film or TV programme, no matter how good it may be, is a passive activity… Reading is active.…
I’m also very keen on reading work in translation, as the translator often has to work hard to render the…
Crime fiction, I learned, was a broad church. If anyone was guilty of making a miscalculation about what it should…
There was always more to marvel at. The creation of emotion. The uncanny beauty of a phrase upon the page.…
In my role as Royal Literary Fund fellow, I again find myself an outsider; inhabiting an interesting hinterland as neither…
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan became the first book I had ever read that put…
No advice has ever influenced my writing a fraction as much as an anecdote I almost certainly have got wrong,…
We are rarely ‘in’ the present. We are a jumble of past and future, trying to draw on our experience…
The daydreaming time, the hanging out the washing time and the walk to school pick-up time; where inspiration can arrive.…
