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Where are the Women? Reimagini...
‘If we cannot imagine it, how can we build it?’
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The Unnatural Death of a Jacob...
‘For in this battle, theatre is everything.’
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Lee Randall Interviews: Denise...
‘In the chill of the morning kitchen I was still in denial, trying to convince myself that I had heard the name wrong, but my heart rate ros …
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‘She smiles at it, a sly drawing of a line separating those who know the initials’ true meaning, and the uninitiated who do not. Pre-Raphael …
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David Robinson Reviews: Malach...
‘He’d never felt that pull since he’d moved south. Not once. The pull, always, had been in the other direction.’
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‘It’s a strange thing, watching someone cross over into the shady world of pain, and it’s an even stranger thing to find yourself willing th …
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We are not this script Though we act it well – and with vim
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‘The conversation had turned out to be incredibly silly. To a certain extent even insulting. It had turned into a kind of exercise in making …
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‘Look carefully and you’ll see them. Stone unicorns are everywhere. . .’
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‘You decide suddenly in that moment, what you will do, knowing what it will cost and that it will change the course of your life forever.’
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World Heritage Canal: Thomas T...
‘We owe a great deal to Telford and others for creations that have stood the test of time, built with courage and daring in an age when majo …
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‘I am a child of the sea, I sometimes think, and have done ever since we first moved to live beside it. I feel subject to its vagaries and t …
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Saving Francesca Maier: In Ber...
‘You’re not planning on staying, are you? You are just visiting, aren’t you?’
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‘As a reader, there is a feeling of trust and hope when you abandon yourself to translation. You are …
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How to get Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize
‘I think it helped a lot that I was very unfamiliar with the Arab world in general and Oman in parti …
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Lee Randall Reviews: Spring by Ali Smith
‘Surprise. Happy new year. Everything impossible is possible.’
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‘I think we should applaud and (continue to) support the work of award-winning Charco Press, based i …
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International Women’s Day: Let Me Tell You This by Nadine Aisha Jassat
‘I’ll take them with me, as I use my words in protest. As I forge ahead. As we forge ahead.’
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New Writing: Linda Cracknell’s When Tumblers Turn
‘A scent of expectation hung in the room, an assumption that she should care or feel something after …
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Juliet Conlin
Juliet Conlin was born in London and grew up in England and Germany. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Durham. She works as a writer and translator and lives with her husband an …
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