Pippa Little speaks with Geoff Hattersley about poetry in her African and Scottish childhood, building a career as an early school leaver and her return to Higher Education, and her approaches to writing.

Helen Grant visits Scotland’s oldest lending library, explaining how it helped her feel at home.

Deborah Chancellor takes us to Newnham College in Cambridge, and considers its role in her Imposter Syndrome.

Jon Mayhew speaks with John Siddique about schoolkids’ ongoing love of ghost stories, his reasons for getting into teaching, the pros and cons of plot templates, and how his writing career started with a running accident.