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As a novelist, those stories I’ve set largely in the countryside have proceeded faster than those set in towns. As…
Andrea Bennett looks at the role of food in shaping fictional characters, and whether the culinary choices we make in…
In dreams, I revel at the symbolism of shifting shapes. It takes a while to unpack meaning, and that is…
In ‘Why I Write’, RLF writers tell us about their reasons for writing. In ‘Why I Write’, we talk to…
I’m rediscovering the reasons why I wanted to write in the first place; for the pleasure of creating and living…
The English version is in the bottom drawer, but the German translated version had a wonderful life at a theatre…
There has to be rejection, otherwise the poor readers of the world would be even more submerged in badly written…
Karl Whitney describes how a mundane government document was the unlikely spark for his first book. Karl Whitney describes how…
Sometimes readers get in touch to tell me how they’ve been affected by things I’ve written. In the interchanges that…
The wonder and generosity in her books make them irresistible. Simply put, Susan Fletcher creates worlds I want to live…
Sarah LeFanu explores the biographer’s dilemma when it comes to names, and Caroline Brothers considers the issue of cultural appropriation.…
I tend to read what I am trying to write. So, novels, when I am in the thick of a…
