Murders she wrote. Many, many of them. Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, she’s the bestselling novelist of all time. Next in the where writers write series: where Agatha Christie wrote her books. “A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh …
Ted Hughes considered him the father of all poets. Yet it was only in the last three years of his life Edward Thomas turned his pen from prose to poetry. He wrote his first poems in December 1914, at The Bee House, up on the hill above Steep, in Hampshire. A low, thatched building perched …
It’s a long way from a shed, or even a lodge. Vita Sackville-West’s writing room was in a twin-turreted, Elizabethan tower at Sissinghurst Castle, in Kent. Sound like a fairytale? ‘It was Sleeping Beauty’s castle with a vengeance’, Sackville-West said in 1950, recalling the wet, April day twenty years earlier she first set eyes on …
First up in my series of posts on where writers write is Virginia Woolf’s writing room. ‘A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction,’ Woolf famously says in A Room of One’s Own. The money, of course, is key. A room of your own, after all, …
Where do writers write? And why? Creating a writing room of my own got me thinking. A writing room of my own I already have a writing room of my own. It sometimes doubles as a spare bedroom, but most of the time it’s a dedicated home office. During lockdown, however, I decided to move …
