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23. Novelist Freya Berry (The Dictator’s Wife) shares her five rules for writing an anti-heroine
32:56||Ep. 23Freya Berry’s recent debut The Dictator’s Wife features a chilling portrait of a late eastern European tyrant’s partner, as she prepares to go on trial for her life. Here the author describes her five rules for creating such an intimidating and compromised anti-heroine.The Dictator's Wife: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/freya-berry/the-dictators-wife/9781472276339/@FreyaBBooks
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22. Novelist Zoë Somerville on how to use the countryside to unsettle your readers
34:11||Ep. 22Zoë Somerville's recent novel The Marsh House concerns a single mother's Christmas visit to the creepy Norfolk coast, and her reading a life of a previous resident of her dilapidated cottage while nature does its best to frighten her. Here she shares her Five Rules of Writing on how to create pure rural fear.The Marsh House: https://headofzeus.com/books/9781838934675https://zoesomerville.com/@zessomerville21. Author and journalist Christina Patterson on how to write a memoir
35:08||Ep. 21Writer Christina Patterson, whose most recent book is Outside, the Sky is Blue, a crystal-clear account of the havoc visited on her family by illness, on her Five Rules of Writing memoir.https://christinapatterson.co.uk/Outside, the Sky is Blue: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/christina-patterson/outside-the-sky-is-blue/9781472282651/@queenchristina_20. Novelist Jan Carson on how to write about Northern Ireland
35:59||Ep. 20Jan Carson, whose most recent novel The Raptures concerns a spate of deaths at a rural Protestant Northern Ireland primary school, on her five rules for writing about the province.@JanCarson7280The Raptures: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1115884/the-raptures/9780857525758.htmlhttps://www.jancarson.co.uk/Presented by Ed Needham and Strong Words Magazine.19. Music biographer Richard Balls on how to interview difficult people
40:50||Ep. 19Richard Balls, author of the superb Shane MacGowan biography, A Furious Devotion, on his five rules for interviewing someone who has little desire to cooperate.@RichardBallsA Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan: https://omnibuspress.com/products/a-furious-devotion-the-life-of-shane-macgowan-published-on-7th-october-2021Presented by Ed Needham and Strong Words Magazine: https://strong-words.co.uk/18. Idler magazine editor Tom Hodgkinson on how to write idly
39:06||Ep. 18Tom Hodgkinson, whose magazine is devoted to the quest for maximum satisfaction from minimum effort, on where writing fits with this equation.@idlerThe Idler: https://www.idler.co.uk/An Idler's Manual: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/IDLERS-MANUAL-by-TOM-HODKINSON/9781901170344Presented by Ed Needham and Strong Words Magazine: https://strong-words.co.uk/17. Debut novelist Virginia Feito on how to write an unlikeable character
31:13||Ep. 17First-time author of the sublime Mrs March, Virginia Feito shares her five rules on writing "a gloriously grotesque antiheroine."Presented by Ed Needham and Strong Words Magazine.