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Reading. Breathing. No TV, just books, just us. In those few days, I fell in love with Agatha Christie and all things murder mystery. It’s something that’s stayed with me all my life. It’s my go-to literature for relaxing. The thing that connects me to my dad.
05-05-2022

Bethan Roberts speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about her family tradition of oral storytelling, becoming a novelist after abandoning literary theory, and accidentally writing a novel about Elvis.

'Whoever defined genres, it can't have been a writer. You can't fit creativity into a straightjacket and tell your imagination to conform to a marketing strategy —because that's what genre is.'
Catherine Czerkawska considers the pleasures and drawbacks of writing a series of novels, looking at various celebrated examples, from Agatha Christie’s Poirot stories to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, and wondering if she too has the stamina to sustain a lengthy series.
01-06-2017

Kathleen Jones tells Frances Byrnes about the mythic relationships between people and their landscapes in her writing — be it a disturbing poem set in her now-abandoned childhood Cumbrian fell home, or fierce non-fiction about the Haida Gwaii islands.

26-01-2017

Kathleen Jones explains how writing a hyper-successful biography of a very famous writer nearly destroyed her career.

Mick Jackson recounts the strange time dilation that affects his novel writing, and how he learned to accept it as part of the creative process.

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