Cynan Jones speaks with James McConnachie about 'the square mile' in Welsh culture, the experience of re-telling stories, and the spark that sends him to the writing shed to get a pending novel down on the page.
Jonathan Tulloch speaks with Frances Byrnes about how his faith and his love of nature are an important part of his writing rituals.
Cynan Jones speaks with James McConnachie about writing as a kind of imaginative remembering, the act of taking a novel from ninety to thirty thousand words in a single cut, and why it’s good to have more abandoned books in drawers than published ones on the shelf.
Mavis Cheek, John Siddique, Sanjida O'Connell, Ray French, Gwyneth Lewis and Jonathan Tulloch share their all-time favourite books, and explain why they matter.