We’re delighted to present four extracts from the inaugural Rathbones Folio Mentees – Sophie Crabtree, Shakira Irfan, Imaru Lewis, and Vincent Otterbeck, who were mentored, respectively, by Evie Wyld, AL Kennedy, Kamila Shamsie and Ross Raisin. The Rathbones...
Mohsin Hamid 1. At what age did you know you wanted to become a writer? I think I would always have wanted to be a writer if I knew one could be a writer. But it wasn’t until I reached university, around the age of 18 or so, that I first began to imagine that such...
Kate Summerscale 1. At what age did you know you wanted to become a writer? I’ve always wanted to read, and writing has grown out of that. It turns out that it can be an even better way of losing yourself in a book. 2. Was your first book published or is it still...
This year’s Rathbones Folio judges and mentors recommend books that, in one way or another, lift their spirits, at the end of a year in which all our spirits have sometimes needed lifting . . . Ross Raisin, Rathbones Folio mentor: Young Skins, by Colin...
At what age did you know you wanted to become a writer? Robin: Perhaps since three or four, when I used to visit the bookshop my grandfather worked in, and was enchanted. Leila: I’ve never thought ‘I want to be a writer’. And do not really consider myself to be...
At what age did you know you wanted to become a writer? Whatever age I was the day my father pointed out to me that being a fighter pilot meant I had to kill people and animals. Was your first book published or is it still lurking in a drawer somewhere? Lurking in the...
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