The heritage plays a big part, horses and horses racing have so long been part of the world’s culture – racing is happening in only slightly different forms in every corner of the globe…
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I wanted to try and catch some of the oddness of those who choose to devote their lives to sporting endeavour, to take an athlete’s life seriously. Because I’ve written a novel a about…
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What is it that we remember the most about our childhood? What is it that we remember the most about our childhood? I hear the same answers so often now. “I remember disappearing off…
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I began to wonder what would happen if I could simply reach out and take that story away from them I started studying bookbinding a few years ago, and I was immediately seduced by…
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I wanted my novel to convey the rottenness at the heart of selfish living, the complexity of ‘doing the right thing’, and the ties that bind family, themes that I think will always be…
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I wanted to ask ‘What if we lost the faculty that singularly makes us human?’ I’ve had a forty-five-year love affair with language, and I’m talking about language with a capital L: that amazing…
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Now, 200 years after the birth of Emily Brontë, forty years after that cassette tape, it feels fitting to be publishing this book In January 1978 Kate Bush released her debut single, Wuthering Heights.…
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Publishing on International Women’s Day, Red Clocks is Leni Zumas’ searing portrayal of a dystopia that’s a little too close to home In the United States, where I live, the Trump government wants to…
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A physical ailment can be seen, felt, touched and healed far more easily. By its very nature, a mental illness is intangible Many years ago, aged eighteen, when I had to decide which subject…
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I became a writer shortly after I learned to read. I stole the idea for She’s Not There. It was back in 2012, at a Sunday lunch, and my host, already a published author,…