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Amy Bloom's writing has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times and Best American Short Stories. Her most recent novel was Away, and she has just published a collection of short stories, Where the God of Love Hangs Out.
Thursday, 25 February, 2010
John Burnside has published five works of fiction and ten collections of poetry, including The Asylum Dance, which won the 2000 Whitbread Poetry Award. Wakig up in Toytown is his most recent novel. More...
Wednesday, 27 January, 2010
Geoff Dyer is the author of Ways of Telling: The Work of John Berger, The Ongoing Moment and most recently, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi. More...
Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
David Malouf is the author of Dream Stuff, The Great World and Remembering Babylon. Born and brought up in Brisbane, he lives in Sydney. His latest novel Ransom is published this month. More...
Thursday, 19 November, 2009
The Scottish author's first novel The Trick is to Keep Breathing was published in 1990, since when she has written two further novels, a memoir, an opera, and numerous short stories. More...
Monday, 12 October, 2009
Husband and wife team Michael G. Jacob and Daniela De Gregorio write together under the pen name Michael Gregorio. A Visible Darkness is their third novel. More...
Monday, 7 September, 2009
Alaa Al Aswany is the Egyptian author of The Yacoubian Building and the short story collection Friendly Fire. More...
Saturday, 11 July, 2009
Poet and novelist Nick Laird was recenly awarded the Geoffrey Faber memorial prize for his collection of poems, On Purpose. Glover's Mistake is his second novel. More...
Tuesday, 7 April, 2009
T. C. Boyle is the author of twelve books, and many more short stories. His latest novel,The Women, is about the relationships in the life of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Tuesday, 10 March, 2009
French author of I Was Behind You. More...
Monday, 9 February, 2009
Author of Notes on a Scandal and The Believers.
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Tuesday, 13 January, 2009
Shalom Auslander is the author of the short story collection Beware of God, and his memoir Foreskin's Lament. More...
Monday, 8 December, 2008
James Salter is the author of Sport and a Pastime, Light Years and Last Night. Solo Faces is reprinted by Penguin this month. More...
Thursday, 6 November, 2008
Ali Smith, author of The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy and her new short story collection The First Person and Other Stories, tells us how she writes. More...
Thursday, 2 October, 2008
James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces, My Friend Leonard, and the new Bright Shiny Morning, tells us how he writes. More...
Friday, 5 September, 2008
Linn Ullmann's fourth book, A Blessed Child is a raw and blackly humorous portrait of three Scandinavian half-sisters set on the island of Hammarsö. The Norwegian native tells us how she writes. More...
Friday, 1 August, 2008
Julian Barnes, acclaimed author of Arthur and George, The History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters and most recently his family memoir Nothing to be Frightened Of, tells us how he writes. More...
Friday, 4 July, 2008
Joe Dunthorne, literary chameleon and author of his enormously successful debut Submarine, takes a moment out from teaching, writing and performing to tell us how he writes. More...
Friday, 6 June, 2008
After the success of his bold debut novel Apples, which revisits the Garden of Eden on a Middlesborough estate, Richard Milward is hard at work on his second novel. More...
Thursday, 24 April, 2008
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