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Craig Taylor

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,...

Sally Gardner

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

Mark Forsyth

A passion for words is a given for an author, but Mark Forsyth, writer of The Inky Fool blog and now a book, The Etymologicon (Icon,...

Autumn highlights: Robert Harris

From Nazis (Fatherland) to Ancient Rome (Pompeii, Imperium, Lustrum) Robert Harris has cornered the market in gripping, mostly...

Autumn highlights: Peter Ackroyd

In a handsome, book-lined room overlooking a quiet London square Peter Ackroyd is hard at work on what is probably the biggest non-fiction...

Autumn highlights: Claire Tomalin

With a host of events and television documentaries planned in commemoration, the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens next February will...

Alan Hollinghurst

After finishing The Line of Beauty, his 2004 Booker Prize-winning novel, Alan Hollinghurst was determined not to write another long...

Adam Nicolson

"The gentry are an oddly neglected class. They are in a sort of middle zone," says Adam Nicolson, author of The Gentry: Intimate...

Ellen Feldman

Love and war are the twin themes of Ellen Feldman's deeply moving new novel Next to Love (Picador, October), which examines how war...

Hector Tobar

Los Angeles is a city perhaps better known to the wider world through films rather than books, but Hector Tobar's thrilling new novel may go...

Luke Johnson

Luke Johnson has his own version of the favourite tea-towel slogan "Keep Calm and Carry On". In Johnson’s language, the phrase...

Erin Morgenstern

A mysterious travelling circus open only in the hours of darkness, with a mass of black and white striped tents, each hosting curious and...

Anna Funder

"I will never, ever write anything that is as difficult as this again because I will never write anything where I have to—so...