Alex wheatle

I look at pictures from my school days and the memories of that period instantly come flooding back. Thoughts of secondary school are quite mixed, with just as many negative ones as positive. But my p

‘I was reading like I did when I was a kid – for comfort and pleasure’

One of my favourite books of the past few years is Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. It’s had a big impact on my own writing – early next year I have a book coming out that’s written as

Reminiscences Joe Brainard I Remember 208pp. Daunt. ...

I’ve just written a book about my life so I have been looking back quite a bit lately. So let’s go back to when I was 16. I was spending all of my time playing guitar during the day, and then at night

I first heard the term ‘autofiction’ in December 2021 on a residential Arvon course for potential novelists. It was the first time I had spent a significant chunk of my own money on my writing educati