STORIES
Beginnings and Endings
Three literary superstars share the inspiration for their books and how to give a character a good ending: Holly Ringland, Elizabeth Strout and Jane Harper.
Masters Series: Holly Ringland
✨NEW EP!✨Kate speaks with the one & only Holly Ringland on creativity, beauty, fairytales, Alice Hart, Esther Wilding, big feels, snot & mascara. It's extra long, a little wild & filled with heart.
The Power of One
“I didn't realise until I wrote Esther Wilding that writing Alice Hart was cleaning my blood.”
Holly Ringland is a Joy Beacon
In this chat, Holly speaks with Dumbo Feather editor Nathan Scolaro about her experiences making the show, and the importance of treating our selves as treasured spaces.
Holly Ringland on nature and the power of interior landscapes
As part of the Big Weekend of Books, Holly Ringland speaks with program curator, Michaela Kalowski about the power of land and nature to illuminate, heal, and speak to our grief, love and trauma.
The Market Seller
I didn’t bother explaining the reason for my growing obsession with sugar: it was, I’d realised, the best way to make them eat your name.
The power of familiarity
What if we took joy and wonder as seriously as sleep, diet, and exercise?
A place to call home
Learning how to come home again, through the magic of writing fiction.
The Language of Strangers
Holly Ringland on The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, and on writing and reading as acts of vulnerability and connection.
“Although I largely wrote Lost Flowers by convincing myself that no one other than me would ever read it, there were days at my desk when I couldn’t fool myself: I wanted my novel to find its people. I was driven by a deep, aching desire for connection.”
Landscape is Destiny: A Chat about Home with Author Holly Ringland
“While writing this book from Manchester, the way I would access where I needed to be in my mind when my body was so far away from these landscapes was totally sensory.”
Picture 1000 Words: The Estuary
People ask me if the 'special connection' still exists when one twin doesn't. You have always been hidden in my answer like a secret language.