Interview with Hilary Mantel
Her double Man Booker achievement and prime-time TV adaptations of her Wolf Hall novel series have turned Hilary Mantel into a household name. But how did it all start? This [...]
Huddersfield, Lindley Library, 30 June
Because I am the Editor of the writing magazine Mslexia, I spend a lot of time doling out advice about writing. Which makes it rather nerve-wracking when I edge my [...]
Doncaster, Hatfield Community Library, 30 June
This is a joint reading with John Wedgwood Clarke, who is a poet and prose writer with an unhealthy interest in dumps and middens – and a somewhat healthier one [...]
Stokesley Library, 29 June
You’re a long way from the sea in Stokesley, but according to the Daily Mail, Herring Girl is ‘steeped in so much local flavour you can almost taste the kippers’. [...]
Hull Central Library, 25 June
The last time I was in Hull was for a Mslexia Roadshow event back in 2007. I was leading a ‘getting published workshop’ for novelists, which means I was helping [...]
Wakefield Library and Museum, 24 June
I read with Robert Williams in South Shields last month and it turns out we go about writing a novel completely differently. He just sets off one day with the [...]