Sara Wheeler
Shagathon
The Founding of Arvon: A Memoir of the Early Years of the Arvon Foundation
By John Moat
Frances Lincoln 128pp £12.99 order from our bookshop
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.
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