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Dame Hilary Mantel has begun recording this year’s BBC Reith Lectures on historical writing. I am particularly interested in hearing them, not just because Mantel is one of our foremost writers, but because of the recent discussion in The Past … Continue reading
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Organising (and performing) at two Festivals this Spring has meant less time for writing. (Writers of old never had to contend with such – I blame the showman Dickens for the idea of prose writer as performer.*) So, although I … Continue reading
No sooner than the Clapham Book Festival is ended (and I repair off to Jerez for the Feria) than preparation is underway for the next Festival – Crystal Palace Overground. All the curators got together last week to run through … Continue reading
Authentic – adjective genuine, authoritative, true; (of writing) trustworthy, as setting forth real facts. Verisimilitude – noun the quality of seeming real or true; an appearance of truth or reality. Fiction writers know about both and this has a specific … Continue reading
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Reading about the past is, for me, an ongoing pleasure. I also set my latest books there. As regular readers of The Story Bazaar will know, I have written one historical novel and am writing a second. So chairing The … Continue reading
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