Interviews
A painful case of broken ribs played a part in the genesis of Salley Vickers’ seventh novel The Cleaner of Chartres
7th September 2012
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Fantasy's power to cast a spell on us
November 2012
REAL fairy tales aren’t mawkish, they contain all the brutality of human life, says Salley Vickers.
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Five-minute Memoir: Salley Vickers on first-job hell
3rd November 2012
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Interview with James Kidd, The Independent on Sunday
21st October 2012
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The Writers Festival, Perth
March 2010
Hear Salley talk about the therapeutic vale of novels with author Patrick Gale at the Writers Festival, Perth
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Interview with Jonathan Ruppin. Foyles Books
July 2009
Q. The story interweaves Violet’s past and present. Do you write the two strands separately or concurrently?
A. No, I wrote the strands concurrently, always waiting in the present strand to see what would be thrown up from the past. I had no idea myself what had happened to Violet, or what the nature of the rift with Edwin was. So it was intriguing to find this out as I wrote. I never do know what is going to happen or what has happened in my books.
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Jonathan Ruppin
BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour
8 July 2009
Salley Vickers’ first novel was a ‘word
of mouth’ sensation. Just one thousand
imprints of Miss Garnet’s Angel were originally
published – to date it has sold over a
million copies. Salley’s latest novel
‘Dancing Backwards’ is set aboard
a cruise ship. It tells the story of Violet,
as she travels to New York, to meet an old friend
she betrayed years before. Salley Vickers joins
Jenni to discuss her latest book and why she
hates the cult of the author.
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'From Couch.... to Ballroom’
Salley Vickers talks about her latest novel
‘Dancing Backwards’
Observer Review 5 July 2009, Lisa O’Kelly
Ex-therapist Salley Vickers has always based
her characters on parts of herself, she tells
Lisa O'Kelly. In her new novel she has them
all dancing at sea
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My Philosophy
Interview with philosopher Julian Baggini
Philosophers imploring the rest of the world
to pay more attention to them will often say
in chorus that the questions they deal with
are of fundamental and profound interest to
any reflective person. True, but that doesn't
clinch their case. Philosophy as we know it
is a combination of this perennial subject matter
and a particular type of reasoned approach to
it. But others tackle the same questions in
different ways, ways which are perhaps more
fruitful for the non-academic.
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Author Salley Vickers
explains why Freud got it all wrong about Oedipus
The Independent, 4 November 2007, Suzi Feay.
Salley Vickers is the latest author to take
up the invitation from Canongate publishers
to update a famous myth for a new audience.
Her choice of Oedipus could not be more apt.
A former psychotherapist, though Jungian rather
than Freudian, she's been fascinated by the
story since she first read it at school aged
17.
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Listen to Salley Vickers
on Open Book talking to Mariella Frostrup about
‘The Other Side of You’
BBC Radio 4, April 9 2006
Novelist Salley Vickers talks to Mariella Frostrup
about her new book The Other Side of You, which
was inspired by Caravaggio's painting The Supper
at Emmaus
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Salley Vickers talks
about her first novel, ‘Miss Garnet’s
Angel ‘at the international conference
‘The Sprit of Things’
13 March 2005, Rachael Kohn
The English writer Iris Murdoch, suggested that
art is ‘the final cunning of the human
soul which would rather do anything than face
the gods’. Salley Vickers probably wouldn’t
agree. All three of her novels, Miss Garnet’s
Angel, Instances of Number Three,
and Mr Golightly’s Holiday, have
a spiritual theme. She’s our first speaker.
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Salley Vickers, psychoanalyst
turned novelist ,talks to Clare Colvin about her
third novel ‘Mr Golightly’s Holiday’
Independent, 23 August, 2003
An author's note at the back of
Mr Golightly's
Holiday reveals that its writing arose out
of a period of turmoil. Salley Vickers, whose
third novel this is, had been working on a different
book when "events cut the threads of my concentration,
so that book was set aside in the distractions
of the personal drama I found myself acting in.
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