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Andrew O'Hagan on drawing inspiration from life for The Illuminations
The author tells Rosie Boycott about childhood, and the characters Maureen and Anne.
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- Tom Holland: The challenge of writing about periods before the modern novel
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- Karen Armstrong: Freedom was only for selected privileged Europeans
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- Germaine Greer: Lady Macbeth is an emptyhead
- Sandi Toksvig on her favourite women in fiction
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- James Rhodes on the first time he met Stephen Fry
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