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Asked to deliver four hundred and fifty words by four pm on a social workers’ strike in Barnsley; four hundred…
I suppose my novels so far stand at this intersection; where memory, imagination, and the books that made me, collide.…
I’m inspired by novelists who reveal the extraordinary in what are patronisingly called ‘everyday people’; that refusal to confine interest…
I’ve spent a lot of my life reading on buses and trains; I read Moby Dick on a seventy-two hour…
Just as Walter Farley made me a jockey and a horse trainer, under Arthur Ransome’s tutelage I became an explorer…
Writing began as a way of escaping solitude. I was also a compulsive reader, especially of adventure stories, and fascinated…
Plot theorists say you must send your characters ‘into the woods’, but if you have vivid characters they will go…
Think of yourself as a baby dropped in a swimming pool. You won’t drown, and… may even find you’re enjoying…
After years of dreaming, grappling with a story I never really imagined would be read by anyone but me, there…
Mine feels like an ant hill in my brain. I tend to get it after finishing a book, when my…
I came up with the idea of the Writing Hour. One hour in every day, to write. No more clearing…
All tied together in plots that took Wodehouse up to two years to develop, but only three months to write……
