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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
Sarah Hall is the author of four novels: Haweswater, The Electric Michelangelo (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize), The Carhullan Army and How to Paint a Dead Man. She is the winner of The Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Betty Trask Award, The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Portico Prize for Fiction. More...
Tuesday, 4 October, 2011
Yvvette Edwards' debut novel, A Cupboard Full of Coats, is on the Man Booker Prize 2011 longlist. She lives in East London. More...
Monday, 5 September, 2011
Marika Cobbold was born in Sweden and is the author of six previous novels, including Guppies for Tea. She now lives in London and is endeavoring to memorise the first page of a certain classic. More...
Thursday, 4 August, 2011
"A young writer to watch," says V.S. Naipaul of Aatish Taseer, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award in 2010 for The Temple-Goers. More...
Tuesday, 5 July, 2011
Julie Myerson, writer and critic, is a regular panelist on the arts programme Newsnight Review. Her novels include Me and the Fat Man, The Touch and The Story of You. More...
Sunday, 22 May, 2011
Annalena McAfee worked in newspapers for more than three decades. She was Arts and Literary Editor of the Financial Times and founded the Guardian Review, which she edited for six years. More...
Thursday, 21 April, 2011
Meaghan Delahunt is the author of The Red Book and In the Blue House which was nominated for the Orange Prize, won the Saltire First Book Prize, a Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Prize and a regional Commonwealth Prize. Her award-winning short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio Four. She lectures in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews in Edinburgh. More...
Thursday, 24 March, 2011
Colin Thubron, travel writer, novelist and President of the Royal Society of Literature, picks his selection of non-fiction titles, exploring mountains - the subject of his own recent new book - identity and belonging. More...
Thursday, 24 February, 2011
Sunjeev Sahota, was recently selected by the Observer as one of their 2011 "Faces to Watch". His debut novel, Ours Are the Streets, is about longing and belonging in extreme. More...
Thursday, 20 January, 2011
Author and lyricist Polly Samson has written one previous short story collection, Lying in Bed, and a novel, Out of the Picture. More...
Monday, 20 December, 2010
Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and several collections of short fiction. She is also the translator of numerous works from the French, most recently Flaubert's Madame Bovary for Penguin Classics. She was named Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government and is also the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship. Here, she shares what she's recently been reading... More...
Thursday, 25 November, 2010
Rebecca Hunt graduated from Central Saint Martins College with a first class honours degree in fine art. She lives and works in London. Mr Chartwell is her first novel, described by the Guardian as "bold, original and frequently very funny. I can't wait to see what Hunt comes up with next." She shares some of her personal favourites... More...
Friday, 29 October, 2010
Emma Donoghue's latest novel Room has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. This month, she's been reading... More...
Thursday, 23 September, 2010
Adam O'Riordan's first collection of poetry is In the Flesh. More...
Thursday, 5 August, 2010
Robert McCrum is the author of several novels and three works of non-fiction. He was a Publishing Director at Faber and Faber, and literary editor of the Observer for many years. His most recent book is Globish. More...
Thursday, 24 June, 2010
John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor and the author of Unreliable Sources: How the 20th Century was Reported. More...
Friday, 7 May, 2010
D. J. Taylor is novelist and historian. His biography of George Orwell won the Whitbread Biography award, and he has also published a number of critical works on British fiction. At the Chime of a City Clock is his seventh novel. More...
Tuesday, 30 March, 2010
Thomas Trofimuk's latest novel is Waiting for Columbus. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta. More...
Thursday, 25 February, 2010
Robin Robertson's fourth book of poetry is The Wrecking Light. More...
Wednesday, 27 January, 2010
Fireside reading from the Untitled editors. More...
Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
Mary-Kay Wilmers is editor of the London Review of Books and author of The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story. More...
Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Robert Service is a professor of Russian history at Oxford University and author of a forthcoming biography of Trotsky. More...
Monday, 12 October, 2009
Penelope Lively is the author of Family Album, her sixteenth novel. More...
Monday, 7 September, 2009
Author of Out of Steppe: The Lost Peoples of Central Asia. More...
Monday, 13 July, 2009
Author of the debut novel Little Gods. More...
Tuesday, 7 April, 2009
Author of God's Own Country.
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Tuesday, 10 March, 2009
Mr Toppit is the first novel by the former literary agent turned television producer Charles Elton.
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Monday, 9 February, 2009
Broadcaster and author of Remember Me More...
Monday, 8 December, 2008
American author of, among many others, The Weight of Water, Fortune's Rocks, Body Surfing and her new novel Testimony. More...
Thursday, 2 October, 2008
Canadian author of Ascension and The Cellist of Sarajevo.
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Friday, 5 September, 2008
Author of The Book of Idle Pleasures and editor of The Idler.
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Friday, 1 August, 2008
South African author of The Quarry, The Good Doctor and The Impostor.
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Friday, 4 July, 2008
Author of The People's Act of Love and We are Now Beginning Our Descent. More...
Friday, 6 June, 2008
Author of Equal Affections, The Lost Language Of Cranes and acclaimed new novel The Indian Clerk.
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Thursday, 24 April, 2008
Author of Somewhere Towards the End. More...
Sunday, 13 January, 2008
Gerald Martin is the author of Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life, the result of 17 years of research and over 300 interviews. More...
Sunday, 6 January, 2008
