‘Where do your ideas come from?’ is a question often put to authors, especially crime writers. When I was busy at the trade I tended to fob it off with...
Read MoreWith notable exceptions – Ian Fleming’s fulsome praise (to his face) of Raymond Chandler in a 1958 BBC broadcast interview, for example – writers are not usually...
Read MoreAn agent never puts on his hat and goes home. – Raymond Chandler If you look at a photograph of a street scene in any Australian city taken in, say, the 1940s and...
Read MoreAt one time I had a lot of Hemingway’s books on my shelves – novels, short story collections, journalism, even Death in the Afternoon (1932), although I never...
Read MoreTest your feline intuition with this special quiz celebrating our literary cats. Answers are posted below. Good luck! 1 TS Eliot wrote a book of poems that inspired...
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