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Chambers Of Inspiration

Chambers of Inspiration is published in “Collected”, a weekly newsletter  of articles on writing and literature by Royal Literary Fund writers. For full article visit the RFL website. Chambers Of Inspiration – The rooms that haunt historical novelists It is one of the mysterious processes of writing fiction that a particular image will lodge at the back… Continue reading…

Opera review: Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor

This review by Clare Colvin was first published in the Sunday Express on Sunday 10 April 2016. THE Royal Opera’s cautionary warning of “scenes of sex and violence” in Katie Mitchell’s staging of Lucia di Lammermoor may have taken into account the notoriety attracted by Mitchell’s production of Sarah Kane’s Cleansed at the National Theatre,… Continue reading…