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What drew Howardena Pindell to painting circles? Is the album Sleaford Mods pressed just 50 copies of any good? And which TV spoof sent Kiell Smith-Bynoe viral? Writers, musicians, artists and actors recall their earliest works – warts and all
<p>She was an accident-prone grandmother, who fitted writing into the gaps in family life, and her first publisher dismissed her as 'an amateur writer'. But she became the best English novelist of her time. <strong>Julian Barnes</strong> pays tribute to Penelope Fitzgerald</p>