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Khaled Hosseini

In 2003, Khaled Hosseini released his début novel The Kite Runner (Bloomsbury)—10 years later, with just two books, he has...

Suzanne Harrington

Behind the writing of every memoir of a life gone off the rails is a motive in need of justification. Why bare your soul? Why tell the world...

James Heneage

When the news came to The Bookseller last year that James Heneage had inked a three-book deal with Quercus my first thought, perhaps...

Mark Mills

On the surface it seems as if Mark Mills has made a clean break with his past, and writing about the past. After four historical novels...

Claire Messud

Nora Eldridge is angry. She is fuming, she is outraged, she is 38 years old, single, alone, reliable, quiet and on the verge of disappearing....

Donal Ryan

Kidnap, betrayal, violence, affairs and heartbreak—in Donal Ryan’s début The Spinning Heart (Transworld, May)...

Peter James

Most writers love a bit of praise from fans, but Peter James admits to being ill at ease when he was told in Marbella last year: “I like...

Roland Watson-Grant

Roland Watson-Grant’s funny, heartfelt and beguiling début, Sketcher, is set in New Orleans. You know, “The Big Easy...

Gill Hornby

Gill Hornby sets her début novel The Hive (Little, Brown, May) in a bloodthirsty arena all of us have experienced at least once...

Melvyn Bragg

The greatest compliment you could give Melvyn Bragg about one of his recent novels? That he has the facts wrong. For the past decade and a half...

Sophie McKenzie

Bestselling author Sophie McKenzie has shifted tens of thousands of her children’s thrillers during her almost decade-long career, but for...

Kate Clanchy

For Struan Robertson, a 17-year-old genius from Scotland, London is more exotic than Paris or Thailand, a place from which no one returns....

Cath Kidston

Despite the fact that there are stores with her name above the door across the globe, Cath Kidston’s preoccupations have changed little...