Terry Hayes

Something dawned on Terry Hayes when he was around 150 pages into writing his début novel I Am Pilgrim (Bantam, July, a creeping...

Philipp Meyer

Thanks to Hollywood, the US’ current dominant role in popular culture and umpteen “Great American Novels”, the creation myth...

Pollockmania might not yet have reached UK shores, but in France it is everywhere. Across the Channel, young fans are eagerly awaiting...

You might think you’re busy, but compared to Neil Gaiman, you don’t know busy. Here is what the fantasy author/children...

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

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...

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

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...

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....

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

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

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