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My secondary modern was a fantastically mixed school, with pupils from all over the world and of every religion; my…
Catherine O’Flynn speaks with Bethan Roberts about sleuthing, adult vs children’s fiction and inner kids. Catherine O’Flynn speaks with Bethan…
I read every Arthur C. Clarke book the Zodiac Bookshop had to offer. Science at school was dull, but what…
At the last minute, a prison officer warns me that if my questions elicit further evidence, the prisoner will be…
With every piece I read, the reasons for rejection did not just stare me in the face, they jumped up…
The final process of writing is performance. In redrafting, there are still variants you are weighing up; reading the poem…
Roy Bainton on the importance of journalistic integrity and his own brush with literary sin. Roy Bainton on the importance…
When your father tells you how he ran home from the cinema in the Blitz, to discover his house had…
In ‘Location And The Writer’, Amanda Mitchison visits Coleridge’s cottage and Julia Crouch promenades on Brighton Beach. Amanda Mitchison visits…
If your manuscript doesn’t reach the commissioning editor when you said it would, he or she will read one of…
They needed three additional scenes, featuring these two actors. Oh, and by the way, everyone’s already on set, and they’ll…
Ruth spotted my love of writing poems. In my final year at primary school I wrote an adventure story and…
