Great sense of enthusiasm and excitement in India for the written word
My next book is about a black slave boy from Jamaica
'The Lodger' catches Shakespeare in a moment of ordinariness
Every contact leaves traces, so I pursue the characters who brushed against Shakespeare
The Christopher Marlowe case
Do I see history repeating itself
Have I been resisting the temptation of writing about the 'here and now'
Opposition from the followers of Marlowe
Information from the world of secret service has to be taken as a performance
How do I write
Journalist vs Author - the differences
The tale of Thomas Coryate 'the English fakir' who walked to India
Playhouses had their finger right on the pulse of contemporary culture
Elizabethan pamphleteer Thomas Nashe comes closest to journalist...
Banning a book creates the opposite effect of creating interest in the book
There is a great interest now in the UK in translated work
The good journalist always goes beyond the safe environment
Who chronicles life better, a writer or a journalist
On the books pages of newspapers
The book trade has been hijacked by the marketing department
Literature always struggles within a society which as a whole undervalues it
Literature and literacy
Reading is not high on the agenda because it seems an awful commitment of time and effort
Writer doesn't have the immediacy of impact that a musician has
Shakespeare's deposition in the court is the beginning - (author reading)
The book trade has been hijacked by the marketing department
Literature always struggles within a society which as a whole undervalues it
Reading is not high on the agenda because it seems an awful commitment of time and effort
Writer doesn't have the immediacy of impact that a musician has
Shakespeare's deposition in the court is the beginning - (author reading)
Remembering my teacher
Authors can be a model for ways of thinking in an increasingly celebrity-driven world
A thought from 'The Smoking Diaries' by Simon Gray
A tip for time management
Recognise that writers aren't a race apart
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