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BBC Open Book – the look of a book

Posted on December 7, 2024December 8, 2024 by 3nxctRqvn28

Richard Beard explores how writers display things on the page that change how we read.

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BBC Open Book – exploring the power of punctuation

Posted on December 7, 2024December 8, 2024 by 3nxctRqvn28

Richard Beard explores how writers have used punctuation to diversify fiction.

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BBC Open Book – the second person ‘you’ in fiction writing

Posted on December 7, 2024December 8, 2024 by 3nxctRqvn28

Richard Beard examines how writers address ‘you’, the reader, in fiction.

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BBC Open Book – why is most writing written in the third person?

Posted on December 7, 2024December 8, 2024 by 3nxctRqvn28

Richard Beard explores how and why most fiction is written in the third person.

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BBC Open Book – the ‘I’ viewpoint of the first person

Posted on December 7, 2024December 8, 2024 by 3nxctRqvn28

Richard Beard guides us on the unexpected uses of the first person in fiction.

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BBC Open Book – fictional journeys in the future tense

Posted on December 7, 2024December 8, 2024 by 3nxctRqvn28

Richard Beard explains how time is used across fiction and the use of the future tense.

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BBC Open Book – the power of the present tense

Posted on December 7, 2024December 8, 2024 by 3nxctRqvn28

Richard Beard explains how time is used across fiction and the use of the present tense.

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BBC Open Book – How writers explore the past tense

Posted on December 7, 2024December 8, 2024 by 3nxctRqvn28

Richard Beard explains how time is used across fiction and the use of the past tense.

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Let’s Talk About Loss interview

Posted on December 7, 2024December 8, 2024 by 3nxctRqvn28

Richard Beard is the author of The Day That Went Missing: A Family Tragedy, a book that follows Richard as he attempts to piece together the events of 18th August 1978 – the day his younger brother Nicholas died.…

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Griefcast interview

Posted on December 7, 2024December 8, 2024 by 3nxctRqvn28

This week Cariad talks to writer Richard Beard (The Day That Went Missing, Lazarus) about his brother, Nicky, who drowned on a family holiday when he was eleven years old. As ever they talk grief, narrative + …

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Winner PEN Ackerley Prize 2018,​ Finalist NBCC Award 2018, Shortlisted Rathbones Folio Prize 2018 and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2018


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