It’s early morning and the sound of heavy rain fills my room. The drumming on the tin roof […]
Biography
Whenever I imagine my father, he’s almost naked. For three years after my parents divorced, I spent every […]
It was hot that day and the dirt was so dry it crunched under the soles of my […]
The timing of the release of Kerry Hudson’s Lowborn couldn’t have been better, hitting the shelves just days […]
‘Restful’, a word that doesn’t cut it anymore. It used to mean TV, reading, browsing online, but now […]
The way I most often describe Tennessee Williams’ memoirs to people is in emphasising the feeling that Williams […]
In the cold, dark days of the new year I find that the door to wakefulness is prised […]
The Real Story will be running a life writing and personal narrative workshop at the first Prestwich Arts […]
You start early, dressing up in a downstairs bedroom, which is lamp lit with curtains drawn. A bed, […]
Angela Carter is as much a work of fiction now as any of her novels; to use her […]