Arvon is Britain’s leading foundation for the provision of residential writing-courses, and we should be grateful for it. Brilliantly run and guided throughout its twenty-five year history by a series of inspired and inspirational figures, it has set many writers, young and old, on the gilded path to publication.

In this slim volume, Arvon co-founder John Moat tells the story of rickety and idealistic beginnings. He pinpoints the moment Arvon came into being – it was in 1968, and ‘there was a whiff of cordite, hot from the barricades’. He and John Fairfax were ‘two young poets on the

Literary Review

Apr 2006

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Sara Wheeler

Only Connect

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Words Writ on a Camel’s Shoulder

From Alcibiades to Airbnb

Queen of Hearts

Go With the Floe

Doctorow’s Orders

Journey’s End?

No Country for Young Men

Once So Great

The White Stuff

A Nonagenarian Writes

No One is Immune

A Pistol, a Bible and A Thousand Fur Seals

Writing their Own Romance

The Saddest Pleasure

Tales of Derring-Do

Burma Discovered through a Shapely Basket

In Memoriam

Conquistadors & Cubaneros

Shine On

Water, Water, Everywhere

The Pursuit of Fear

Travelling Companions

Child Of The Pole