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I’m suspicious if the idea of a work-life, or writing life, balance is conscripted into a goal-driven agenda that has…
Nature liberated Mary Kingsley from the bondage of self, and she prolonged her liberation by writing about it. Nature liberated…
The story of Barbara Pym’s rediscovery by the literary world, sixteen years after being dropped by her publisher must give…
Paul Dowswell speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about childhood classics, his early career and knowing what you’re good at. Paul Dowswell…
What issues from my pen is like a kind of linear stalagmite; the essential sediment of its sentences built up,…
I wasn’t always a serial killer. It took twenty years of hard cuts, brutal edits and fatal backspaces before my…
I splashed out on an Apple PowerBook Duo 210. A very early laptop with four whole megabytes of RAM. And…
Anna Wilson asks, is it ethical to write a memoir that focuses on someone other than the author? Anna Wilson…
My last novel was set in a hotel on an island off the coast of Tuscany, and for the year…
In ‘Location And The Writer’, Caroline Smailes takes us to a Water Palace, Mark Illis explores Blackheath and Clare Fisher…
I suppose I’m what’s known these days as an ‘influencer’, and while that term has shallow connotations, I take the…
Writers discuss their desert island book. Colin Grant, Kerry Young, Mimi Khalvati, Debjani Chatterjee MBE, Rahila Gupta and Michael McMillan…
