For the past few months my latest work-in-progress, writing a historic novel, has been on the back burner while we…
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A nthony Doerr’s writing makes me want to give up any pretence at being a writer and find something else…
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I’m sitting on the circular bed, watching Mum as she applies her make-up in the huge mirror with its halo…
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I was browsing the ‘Buy one get one half price’ books on Waterstones’ tables when the assistant picked up a…
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“Have you seen the double blank anywhere?” “The double what?” “The double blank.” “What does it look like?” “Nothing, it’s…
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Hmm, guilty conscience, thought Hilary as she wrapped the six red carnations and gypsophila in the lime green wrapping paper…
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‘Between life and death there is a library,’ she said. ‘And within that library, the shelves go on for…
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Set in the deprived Glasgow of the 1980s, 2020 Booker Prize Winner Shuggie Bain is a deeply personal account of…
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In beginning to write creative fiction, one of the hardest things for me to come to terms with is not…
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