PHILIP MARSDEN

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Philip Marsden is the award-winning author of a number of works of travel, history and fiction, including The Bronski House, The Levelling Sea and, most recently, Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and his work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Languages translated into

Awards: Thomas Cook Travel Book of the Year and Somerset Maugham Award

Books of the Year picks: Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and The Scotsman

Philip’s TOP WRITING TIP

The best non-fiction, I believe, shares many techniques and skills with fiction. Not that you make things up, it’s just that telling stories is telling stories and the devices of pace, suspense, scene-setting and building character apply to each.

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Here, @peterjamesuk explains why you owe it to your readers to get your facts straight. He also shares his Trinity of Crime Writing. Hear everything from the master’s voice in just over two weeks’ time. @Profwriting https://policeadvisor.co.uk/events/solving-a-murder-the-first-48-hours-online-crime-writers-course/

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