Sanjida O'Connell visits Rowberrow in Somerset, exploring the joys of country cottages gone feral and needing some love.
Emylia Hall goes about as far west as possible, to the Cornwall landscapes of her childhood that she rediscovered through writing.
David Spencer takes us on a tour of Halifax, exploring its 20th century history and meeting his own family ghosts.
Leigh Russell takes us far from the bucolic, to a piece of waste ground lying beside a railway track.
Susan Fletcher speaks with Caroline Sanderson about the importance of setting to her novels, how her love of the natural world and writing outside helps her bring poetry to her prose, and what really motivates her as a novelist.
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’.