Alchemy: Writers on Truth, Lies and Fiction

We live in a world of docu-drama, in which the 'real life' story is held in higher regard than fiction. Where does that leave the imagination?Five writers grapple with reality and fiction, and the alchemical process of turning life into art. As Iain Sinclair frames it in his luminous introduction, they try to explain the impulse to write 'by way of personal anecdote, revelation, or hopeful punt in the dark.'