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I’ve posed with my elbows atop a pile of my own books, grinning unreliably like a disastrous QVC presenter. I’ve…
My default reading is old thrillers, especially the novels of Simenon, of which there are a lot. My default reading…
Far from home, in a new language, I could reinvent myself and write myself into the land. Far from home,…
Eight-thirty every weekday, I train. On the best of bad days, I’m back at the computer, just writing; if it…
During a year of crisis and darkness, I had a revelation. What if life works this way too? What if,…
If my shoulder goes into spasm and I want to tense up, I try not to; I go into it.…
When I was a teenager, I devoured the New Musical Express every week. Their greatest writer was a reprobate called…
I have a new book, and it will be a proper book, with covers, written on paper; people our vintage,…
A devout Catholic, mother of seven, kindly confidante and prodigious drinker and smoker of fags, Alice Thomas Ellis was both…
My first novel was rejected by over twenty imprints before finding a home. That novel won prizes in the end,…
I’ve been playing around with a text for theatre that seems to be a mash-up of dialogue, poetry, and prose;…
There is no shortcut. Just write the damn book. So I did. I wrote the book, and then I wrote…
