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Take two steps forward’, he said. ‘Now, what can you see?’ I described the shape of the music on the…
Simon Booker on searching for the truth about the father he never knew. Simon Booker on the unexpected consequences of…
There’s a badger set in the woods beyond the chip shop; muntjac deer in the cemetery. A few years back,…
There’s something wrong. Your inner critical voice knows it, but you can’t put your finger on the problem. It can’t…
Malachy Tallack speaks with Caroline Sanderson about growing up in Shetland, and the role of place in his fiction and…
Wipeout is a leap of faith, propelling you down a near-vertical drop until you’d spark if you weren’t drenched. Wipeout…
It’s probably no coincidence that the passages picked out by readers, as scenes that ‘stayed with them’, seem to be…
I was bundled into a double-act with the late Howard Marks, international drug trafficker turned memoirist. Our preparations were not…
Over the past thirty years I’ve pretty much jumped from one project to the next. I even took a laptop…
Jasbinder Bilan explores the enduring appeal of magic and fantasy in children’s fiction. Jasbinder Bilan explores the enduring appeal of…
You kiss boys. You stay up whispering to your girl friends about kissing boys. You do not think that you…
I choose to walk through Victorian parks with Edwardian characters, rather than real-life friends. Sometimes the characters hold my hand.…
