Claire Harman speaks with Caroline Sanderson about the painstaking, and sometimes obsessive art of literary biography, and how careful detective work can bring new insights into even the most written-about lives.
Doug Johnstone speaks with Cherise Saywell about shifting from engineering to domestic noir via music journalism, exploring conflicted masculinity in his work, and being part of the Tartan Noir family of Scottish crime writers.
Jo Mazelis takes us to the Gower Peninsula, a repository of memories.
Rob Chapman takes us far from the sea, to Sandy in Bedfordshire.
Ray French visits Far Ings, a once-busy site returned to nature and a reminder of his father’s values.
Linda Hoy takes us to the Sheffield archive of a most unusual society.
Brian Clegg considers the fate of post-truth science in his post-industrial hometown of Littleborough.
Laura Hird speaks with Geoff Hattersley about her beginnings as a writer of bleak and gritty short stories, the real reason her first novel was written in four different voices, and how she gave her mother a literary afterlife in ‘Dear Laura’.
Elanor Dymott speaks with Robin Blake about storytelling’s essential role in the British legal system, migrating from law journalism to fiction, and the childhood origins of an unsettling recurrent theme in her writing.