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Eventually, you’ll forgive the person who thought it would be character building to bang you up in a convent school…
I book-end my talk with a spacey slide show set to Elton John’s ‘Rocket Man’ and David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’.…
Clare Morgan shares how Virginia Woolf’s work helped her find her literary voice and continues to inspire her writing. Clare…
Ghost-writing books and columns for celebrities; booking guests onto TV chat shows won’t help you become a first-class screenwriter or…
In ‘Me And My Audience’, RLF writers share their experiences of encounters with readers. RLF writers explore the effects that…
Sometimes writer’s block and unrealised projects amount to the same thing. Research takes over, the idea dwarfs the actuality. Sometimes…
Years passed and I did not write the novel. During this time my contact with the agent became more sporadic…
Writers discuss their favourite book in translation. Debjani Chatterjee MBE, Rahila Gupta, Kerry Young, Michael McMillan, Mimi Khalvati and Colin…
This re-sensitizing to nature has had a profound effect on me. On a recent trip to China I realized, something…
Adriana Hunter on the artistic rewards of literary translation. Adriana Hunter explores the art of literary translation and considers why…
I wouldn’t like to work in a coffee-shop, as many do, with the raucous spurting of the espresso machine, and…
Freya Stark travelled widely in Luristan, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Syria and Iraq, and was the first Western woman to journey…
