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
Interviews
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. More...
Thursday, 12 January, 2012
The academic and writer talks to Mark Reynolds about his latest novel The Prague Cemetery, the enduring legacy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and other forgeries, taking offence, the search for truth, the power of the invented enemy, and about making an enemy of those in power. More...
Wednesday, 7 December, 2011
Penelope Lively has written many prize-winning novels for adults and children, including Moon Tiger which won the 1987 Booker Prize. She talks to Lucy Scholes about her new book, How It All Began, and on once being a children's writer. More...
Monday, 7 November, 2011
My week
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. More...
Thursday, 12 January, 2012
Ellen Feldman, a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank and Scottsboro, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Next to Love is her latest novel. She lives in New York City with her husband. More...
Monday, 5 December, 2011
Craig Taylor is the author of Return to Akenfield and One Million Tiny Plays about Britain, which began life as a column in the Guardian. He is also editor of the literary magazine Five Dials. His latest book, Londoners is subtitled The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It. He tells us how he fills his time in and out of London in a not entirely typical week. More...
Monday, 7 November, 2011
How I write
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. More...
Thursday, 12 January, 2012
Padgett Powell is regarded as one of the most interesting writers in America today. The New York Times calls him "a master of voice, a generator of absolutely particular, original, hilarious human sounds." Powell wishes he'd penned Absalom! Absalom!, and recommends a twisted fellow from Jacksonville as a young writer to watch. More...
Wednesday, 7 December, 2011
Thomas E. Kennedy is the author of eight novels, as well as several collections of short stories and essays, and has won numerous awards including the 2007 Eric Hoffer Award, the Pushcart Prize, the O. Henry Prize and the National Magazine Award. He can write anywhere as long as his literary partner is in hand. More...
Monday, 7 November, 2011
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
Features
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. More...
Thursday, 12 January, 2012
"If we are looking for books of the epic scale and stature of the great European 19th-century novels, we must turn to Asia." David Parker is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Man Asian Literary Prize. More...
Wednesday, 7 December, 2011
In the midst of writing his second novel, Tod Wodicka examines the trend for the literary doorstopper. Some are markedly weightier than others. More...
Monday, 7 November, 2011
What I'm reading
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. More...
Thursday, 12 January, 2012
Dag Solstad is the only author to have received the Norwegian Literary Critics' Award three times. His first novel to be translated into English, Shyness and Dignity, was shortlisted for the 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. More...
Monday, 5 December, 2011
Adam Thorpe's first novel, Ulverton, was published in 1992, and he has written five other novels, two collections of stories and five books of poetry. His translation of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is destined to become the definitive English translation of our time. More...
Monday, 7 November, 2011
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