‘Dillard is triumphantly awake, and these essays are magnificent and dramatic, illuminating and inspirational. Read them; they brim with abundance’
Gavin Francis
The Guardian
‘A writer who never seems tired, who has never plodded her way through a page or sentence, she can only be enjoyed by a wide-awake reader.’ Geoff Dyer’s foreword to The Abundance is available to read at Literary Hub.
Geoff Dyer
Literary Hub
“Mary was a little bit taller than the other girls her age and had brownish crinkly hair. She was quite thin, because she didn't always have exactly enough to eat. She liked honey and whistling and the colour blue and finding out.”
“This is a debut novel and it’s an intense psychological, even apocalyptic thriller. But Chanter is also a poet, and the way she writes is graceful, evocative and emotional.”
Judy Finnigan
WH Smith Blog
Simon Garfield talks at Ideacity about the importance of letter writing in our current technology driven era, unpacks famous love letters and why they are important historically.
Undere the Skin – the official film trailer.
“humans are mysterious, even to themselves, and it is this mystery that keeps them going. It is the mystery that makes love possible.”
Rupert Everett performance
“If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death.”
Colin Firth introduces The People Speak
Watch Catherine Chanter talking about her debut novel The Well
“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
Celia Imrie performance