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Shena Mackay Interview
Your writing has a poetic quality. How much has poetry influenced your work? I started writing poetry from the age of about eight and continued through to my early teens. I had Come Hither, a...
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Pastrami on Rye
Lucy liked to vary the places she wrote in. She didn’t just sit in the ubiquitous wine bar, beneath red, bordello-like lampshades. Or in cafes in the middle of the afternoon, drinking copious cups of...
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Janice Galloway Interview
How long have you been a published writer? My first stories were published in November 1986. I’m interested in writing stories about problems which don’t necessarily have answers, which is I think...
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Recurring Phrases
At school, my German teacher was always talking about leitmotifs. Every time we began reading Thomas Mann’s Tonio Kröger she would get very enthused about its recurring images. References kept...
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Carol Shields
How did you feel when your first book was published? The first book I had published was a novel. I was living in Ottawa, which is a big city but a small village too, and the local bookstore had their...
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Things to Make and Mend
An acclaimed short story writer, Ruth Thomas has written a tight and precise debut novel about adolescence, nostalgia and acceptance. Things to Make and Mend follows the lives of two women, once best...
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