Deborah Lawrenson

It would be hard to persuade anyone looking into a writer’s study   - desk, notes, books, cups of tea – that writing was very exciting ...

  Moss and lichen on a tree trunk - and a timely reminder that not all autumn colour comes in shades of fire. As I push on with the new...

  The hard slog of writing goes on, made grim by persistent migraine. It’s an all too familiar scenario. The grey skies and rain so cond...

  This glowing quince is the latest small masterpiece by Julian Merrow-Smith - autumn encapsulated in warm greys and defiant yellow wit...

  The Lantern has another foreign language outing today - published in Croatia under the Italian title of The House of Wind and Shadow ...

    Shutters closed. An upstairs window open in shadow. No sign of life. I have an awful feeling this is what a writer's life loo...

  "There were fears in there too, of course. Fear of ending up with a conventional life. A feeling that I'd never really lived...