Lucy Caldwell
Lucy Caldwell was born in Belfast in 1981 and is a graduate of Goldsmith's MA in Creative and Life Writing. The Meeting Point is her second novel, and she is also an award-winning playwright, currently under commission to write for the main stage of the Royal Court Theatre.
Thursday, 12 January, 2012
Grist for the Mill by Chris Womersley
Chris Womersley's fiction and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Granta New Writing and The Age. His debut novel, The Low Road, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Book in 2008. When he was invited to be a Writer in Residence at The Cheltenham Literature Festival in 2011 he thought it was a hoax.
Thursday, 12 January, 2012
Prizing Asian Literature by David Parker Wednesday, 7 December, 2011
The Novel as a Big Fleshy Thing: Why Peter Nadas' Parallel Stories Has More Soul Than Your Dog by Tod Wodicka Monday, 7 November, 2011
Lonely hearts
M, 35, seeks M, 30+
M, 35, seeks M, 30+. Me: left on the shelf for too long, one less than careful former owner, now desperately in need some close attention between the covers. You: an open book.
M n/s 25 WLTM F 30
M n/s 25 WLTM F 30 4 LOFAPS and acronym solving.
Dull old sod
Dull old sod seeks excitable and informed female companion to improve his social credentials. A talent for small talk and false enthusiasm are welcomed but not essential.
F, almost middle-aged
F, almost middle-aged, melancholy, easily bored, always angst-ridden travel writer requires distraction from this damn tedium with a succession of brilliantly written musings by a youthful M.
Samantha Harvey
Samantha Harvey's first novel, The Wilderness, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009, longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and won the 2009 AMI Literature Award and the Betty Trask Prize. She was recently named by The Culture Show as one of the 12 Best New British Novelists. When she's writing she does so methodically, tenaciously and slowly.
Thursday, 12 January, 2012
Padgett Powell Wednesday, 7 December, 2011
Thomas E. Kennedy Monday, 7 November, 2011
The Suicide Room by Adam Ross
We were sitting on the fifth floor of Will's dorm room, smoking pot, when the conversation turned to death."My sister, Elise, saw her boyfriend get killed in a car wreck," Casey said. She exhaled contemplatively, blowing a stream of smoke...
Thursday, 12 January, 2012
Management by Luiza Sauma Wednesday, 11 January, 2012
In the Cave by Tessa Hadley Wednesday, 7 December, 2011
Courtney Sullivan
Courtney Sullivan is the author and the New York Times bestselling novel Commencement, and her writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review. Maine is her latest novel. She lives in Brooklyn and in the week before Christmas found herself proposed to and enjoyed being mistaken for a truant.
Thursday, 12 January, 2012
Ellen Feldman Monday, 5 December, 2011
Craig Taylor Monday, 7 November, 2011
Stephen Kelman
Stephen Kelman's debut novel, Pigeon English, is described by the Times as 'a book to fall in love with, a funny book, a true book, a shattering book'. It has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011, the Guardian First Book Award and the Desmond Elliot Prize.
Thursday, 12 January, 2012
Dag Solstad Monday, 5 December, 2011
Adam Thorpe Monday, 7 November, 2011
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Postmortem: A Kay Scarpetta Novel, Volume 1
The Lord of the Rings (3 Book Box set)
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
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