Writer's Insights

Fleeting Visions

There’s a series of piano miniatures by Sergei Prokofiev which he named after a line in a sonnet his friend Konstantin Balmont composed after hearing…

May 20 •

An interlude on scent

and the importance of snobbery

May 13 •

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert on the virtue of patience

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert always knew that he wanted to write, and when he graduated from Oxford in the depths of lockdown, there seemed no better time…

Jan 19 •

Sarah Clegg on spooky Christmas traditions

The day I am due to interview author Sarah Clegg, I am in a wet and foggy Vilnius.

Dec 6, 2024 •

Hello gentle reader,

Nov 12, 2024 •

A Too Quick Year

Goodbye Girlfailure

Oct 28, 2024 •

How to write an author bio

You finish your book.

Oct 18, 2024 •

Hello, my name is Lily Hyde

Hello, my name is Lily Hyde, and I’m an author.

Oct 11, 2024 •

Character / Breakdown

Further casting woes

Sep 27, 2024 •

Halt the celesta!

A support of uncertainty and a defence of torture

Sep 20, 2024 •

Onwards, but not too far!

On getting derailed by sitcoms, widowers and skipping ahead

Aug 23, 2024 •

A defence of teenage ditzes

Aug 8, 2024 •

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