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Writers discuss their favourite children’s book. Jon Mayhew, Caroline Brothers, Fraser Grace, Emma Darwin, Helen Grant and Robbie Hudson discuss…
I am, if not addicted to words, at the very least word-dependent. One contributory factor to this word-dependence is the…
Since earliest childhood, when words first began to form riotous assemblies in my prissy and precocious little bonce, I have…
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…
