Ruarri Joseph is a singer-songwriter and frontman for the band William The Conqueror. He’s just written his first novel, of the same name, (available for pre-order now) which is an ‘auto fiction’ or maybe a ‘meta biography’. He chats to Robin about the challenges of writing a novel compared to a screenplay or a song, moving away from folk music, the inspiration of Kurt Vonnegut and George Saunders and a whole lot more.

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