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The advice I often give myself when feeling blocked, is just to carry on writing. Squeeze it out. Even if…
The real revelation for me was that the genius Beethoven came across as a very normal artist; one of us,…
Paul Dodgson considers how the ordinary moments in our lives can be the perfect entry point to a life story.…
Thinking of Shaw, newly arrived in London from Dublin to find everyone writing novels, I remember my own version of…
Sarah Ardizzone speaks with Ann Morgan about her career in translation, working with writers outside the mainstream, and how she…
Cliffs populated with soldier orchids, and purple thrifts, and sea hollies. Cliffs high enough to jump from, as the withered…
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…
