Charlotte Peacock

Murders she wrote. Many, many of them. Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, she’s the bestselling novelist of all time. Next in the where writers write series: where Agatha Christie wrote her books. “A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one…

Nan Shepherd’s shanty in the Cairngorms – on the April day in 1928 she first saw it, it was love at first sight. From then on she escaped to it as often as she could. But where was it? In the Spring of 1930, Nan Shepherd was ill. She was losing…

My series of posts on where writers write was inspired by creating a new room of my own — in my garden shed. To save you scrolling through the blog, they’re gathered together here, too. There are more to come, so do check back here for updates. Until…

Next up in the series on where writers write is Dylan Thomas’s writing shed at the Boat House in Laugharne, Camarthenshire. When Dylan Thomas first saw the Boat House, on a sunny Monday in May 1934, it was from the other side of the River Taf. He and…

Ted Hughes considered him the father of all poets. Yet it was only in the last three years of his life Edward Thomas turned his pen from prose to poetry. He wrote his first poems in December 1914, at The Bee House, up on the hill above Steep, in…

It’s a long way from a shed, or even a lodge. Vita Sackville-West’s writing room was in a twin-turreted, Elizabethan tower at Sissinghurst Castle, in Kent. Sound like a fairytale? ‘It was Sleeping Beauty’s castle with a vengeance’, Sackville-West…

Where writers write: Virginia Woolf’s writing room First up in my series of posts on where writers write is Virginia Woolf’s writing room. ‘A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction,’ Woolf famously says in A Room of…

Where do writers write? And why? Creating a writing room of my own got me thinking. A writing room of my own I already have a writing room of my own. It sometimes doubles as a spare bedroom, but most of the time it’s a dedicated home office. During…