Sean Taylor & Hannah Shaw

Sean Taylor and Hannah Shaw's latest collaboration, Who Ate Auntie Iris? (Frances Lincoln Children's Books, April) has echoes...

Matt Haig

Matt Haig's To be a Cat (Bodley Head, February) is a feline version of the body-swap films that contemplate what it would be like...

The ancient worlds of Greece and Rome, and the splendour of medieval Europe are well-worn historical topics, subject of a thousand worthy tomes...

At first glance, John Lanchester's latest book—his first novel since 2002's Fragrant Harbour—lands squarely in that...

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

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...