Audio from RSL

A.S. Byatt reflects on the experience of having her portrait painted

Contributed by: A.S. Byatt, Philip Hensher

Rose Tremain on writing about subjects removed from her own life

Contributed by: Rose Tremain, Richard Holmes

V.S. Naipaul in conversation with John Carey

Contributed by: V.S. Naipaul, John Carey

Telling lives: Penelope Lively leads a conversation about biographical fiction

Ruth Rendell on crime writing

Contributed by: Ruth Rendell

Dicing with darkness: Hilary Mantel on the darkness in her writing

Contributed by: Hilary Mantel, James Runcie, Peter Parker

Penelope Lively and Helen Simpson on literary brevity

Life is tweet: Margaret Atwood on her passion for new technology

Contributed by: Margaret Atwood, Xandra Bingley

Voices of the Great War

On Penelope Fitzgerald

Pitt and Wilberforce: contrasting friends

On Tove Jansson

Contributed by: Kate Kellaway, Ali Smith

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