Leading writers share the secrets of a real or imaginary internal places of refuge in times of crisis. David Almond recalls a field outside the mining town of Felling on Tyneside. Show more
Leading writers share the secrets of an internal place of refuge in times of crisis. Beloved children's writer Michael Morpurgo on an Essex childhood, before and after the fall. Show more
Leading writers share the secrets of an internal place of refuge in times of crisis. Inua Ellams recalls the Grand Hall of Battersea Arts Centre and a kitten called Pluto. Show more
Leading writers share the secrets of their real or imaginary internal places of refuge in times of crisis. Alan Hollinghurst evokes a hidden copse of poplars in Gloucestershire. Show more
Leading writers share the secrets of their internal place of refuge in times of crisis. Tahmima Anam builds a house on the plot of land her family own in rural New Hampshire. Show more
Leading writers share the secrets of their internal place of refuge in times of crisis. Tessa Hadley on a basement flat in Bristol and a small girl on the cusp of becoming herself. Show more
Leading writers share the secrets of their internal place of refuge in times of crisis. Alice Oswald - poet and lepidopterist- visits the nocturnal world of the moth. Show more
Leading writers share the secrets of their internal place of refuge in times of crisis. David Constantine follows a stream running past a holiday home in his childhood. Show more
Leading writers share the secrets of an internal place of refuge in times of crisis. Evie Wyld recalls her grandparents’ sugar cane farm in Australia. Show more
Leading writers share the secrets of an interior place of refuge to which they travel in times of crisis. Aida Edemariam on swimming pools in England and Ethiopia. Show more