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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Hold Your Tongue author Deborah Masson – from Faber Academy to securing a book deal 25 November 2019
Write Advice – author Paul McVeigh explains how to begin a novel 14 November 2019
Write Advice – author Susmita Bhattacharya discusses finding inspiration 25 October 2019
Write Advice – editorial manager Anna Davidson discusses the publishing process 24 September 2019
Write Advice – YA author Rupert Wallis’ top tips for teenage writers 14 September 2019

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