This year’s Rathbones Folio judges and mentors recommend books that, in one way or another, lift their spirits, at the end of a year in which all our spirits have sometimes needed lifting . . . Ross Raisin, Rathbones Folio mentor: Young Skins, by...
At what age did you know you wanted to become a writer? Robin: Perhaps since three or four, when I used to visit the bookshop my grandfather worked in, and was enchanted. Leila: I’ve never thought ‘I want to be a writer’. And do not really consider myself to be...
At what age did you know you wanted to become a writer? Whatever age I was the day my father pointed out to me that being a fighter pilot meant I had to kill people and animals. Was your first book published or is it still lurking in a drawer somewhere? Lurking in the...
At what age did you know you wanted to become a writer? I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to write Was your first book published or is it still lurking in a drawer somewhere? I have a green notebook full of my early poetry. No one’s seen...
At what age did you know you wanted to become a writer? Probably around age 8. Was your first book published or is it still lurking in a drawer somewhere? It sounds unbelievable, but I’ve made almost continual use of just about everything I’ve ever written. I’ve only...
At what age did you know you wanted to become a writer? Not until my twenties, when I wrote my first article for The Guardian and found I loved doing it. I will always be intensely grateful to the editor who commissioned it. Was your first book published or is it...
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