Jo Nesbo

Norwegian author Jo Nesbo is one of the leading stars of Scandinavian crime writing, a genre whose popularity with readers shows no sign of...

Patrick Flanery

At the core of Absolution (Atlantic, March), Partrick Flanery's excellent début novel, is an interview between a journalist...

How far would you go to save your own life? That's the burning question at the heart of Charlotte Rogan's début novel The...

It's a book about magic which tries to take magic seriously," says author James Treadwell of his début, Advent (Hodder...

Silence and snowfall; a fox and a girl, darting in and out of trees; pickled peas and mean apple pies. Alaskan author Eowyn Ivey's literary...

"I didn't want to just regurgitate the same sort of story about students having a wonderful bally-hoo time in their colleges":...

When Jojo Moyes began writing her ninth novel Me Before You she was out of contract with Hodder, who had published her previous eight...

Ninja vampires in feudal Japan put Nick Lake on the map as a children's author but now he has taken a break from the fast-paced thrills of...

Samantha Harvey is a writer who very determinedly ploughs her own furrow. Her first novel, The Wilderness (Jonathan Cape), was a...

Chad Harbach is assuredly the only début author in literary history to have a book about his novel released before the novel itself. Two...

It's no surprise to learn that first-time author Harriet Lane is a fan of Barbara Vine, Patricia Highsmith and those "books where you...

Next year the Olympics come to London and the world will be watching. Perfect timing then for an innovative new oral history of the capital,...

Word of mouth is already building for Sally Gardner's extraordinary new novel, a complex and richly imagined tale about memory and identity...