Sunday, 24 May 2015

ADVICE FOR WRITERS

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 Writing requires great selfishness and great focus - it helps if you're so burned up by the words trying to burst out of you that you c...
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Thursday, 21 May 2015

PRESTAT AT THE BOOKS THAT BUILT ME

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Reading is an intensely pleasurable activity.  At least, it should be - I suppose if one is cramming for exams or ploughing one's way th...
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Tuesday, 19 May 2015

CHAMPAGNE BOLLINGER AT THE BOOKS THAT BUILT ME, AND THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE WINNER 2015 IS ANNOUNCED

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“I drink my Champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory....
Friday, 15 May 2015

ALEX PRESTON, IN LOVE AND WAR (AND ALSO AT THE BOOKS THAT BUILT ME)

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I write this sitting, not in the kitchen sink, but in 9F of a British Airways flight back from a business trip to Italy, trying to not to l...
Thursday, 7 May 2015

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED

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I first read Brideshead Revisited when quite a young teenager, in love with Waugh's floppy haired bright young things, up at Oxford seem...
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ABOUT THE BOOKS THAT BUILT ME

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‘The Books That Built Me - where the books you love meet the books you write’ Sarah Churchwell, author of Careless People, Murder, Ma...
Sunday, 3 May 2015

TREFUSIS MINOR & THE FOOTBALL MATCH

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Trefusis Minor went to see Chelsea play Crystal Palace today. It was an important father/son bonding moment: Mr Trefusis is an ardent Chelse...