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Evans above

What better grounding for writing than having edited hundreds of books? Sitting in her north London flat drinking freshly ground coffee and eating...

Hilary McKay

In a publishing world dominated by contemporary boy heroes, Hilary McKay's Wishing for Tomorrow stands out for being both focused on...

Charlie Higson

If vampires are the "undead" of choice for girls, then it has to be zombies for the boys according to author, actor and screenwriter...

Marian Keyes

Marian Keyes' new novel, her 12th, The Brightest Star in the Sky was inspired, she says, by Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland...

Aled Jones

Aled Jones is playing footsie with me under the table. Well, not intentionally but the table I have chosen is so small that every time he gets...

Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger, a softly-spoken American, first started thinking about the novel which was to become Her Fearful Symmetry back in...

Dara O'Briain

Right now Dara O'Briain is a rarity­ in the publishing world: a stand-up comedian with a book out this autumn which isn't a memoir. I...

Harry's game

It is amazing what passes for television these days. A man sitting on top of a gigantic jelly singing ‘“We are the world",...

Letters to America

"I've got so many things wrong with me. Fatal illnesses. I could die tomorrow if I chose to but I'm hanging on for those letters....

Close to home

William Boyd's new novel Ordinary Thunderstorms comes—in a very 
literal sense—close to home. When in...

The cat's whiskers

The first inkling animator Simon Tofield had that the short cartoon featuring his new kitten might be a success was a phone call from the US...

The Book of Nick

Nick Cave does not disappoint. Anyone who has come across the rock legend will testify to his brooding presence, particularly as the willowy front...

Seven days with Sebastian

When the banking world began to come crashing down around our ears, novelist Sebastian Faulks said he found it "frightening, genuinely very...


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