Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Vanessa Diffenbaugh drew on her own experiences of caring for foster children when writing her début novel The Language of...

The lives of actors

Esther Freud's seventh novel Lucky Break (Bloomsbury, April) is set in the world of acting and follows a group of aspiring actors at drama...

With several high-profile TV series under his belt, a reputation as a pugnacious debater, and a track record in slaughtering sacred cows, Niall...

Ask any reader to list their favourite travel writers and chances are Colin Thubron will be mentioned. Fellow travel writer Jan Morris describes...

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece is Annabel Pitcher's début. Its subject matter has divided publishers and agents, one...

Mick Inkpen is an established voice in the world of children's picture books whose characters include the instantly recognisable Kipper and...

Philip Hensher's new novel is his first since the 2008 Man Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency, a 700+page epic spanning...

A year ago Harry Eastwood, food writer and presenter for Channel 4's "Cook Yourself Thin", moved to Paris on a mission: to prove...

First-time author Mary Horlock grew up on Guernsey, although she is not a native Channel Islander—her parents moved there when she was four...

"Ambivalent" is the considerably understated way Stephen Kelman describes his feelings about the publication of his book next year. ...

Zimbabwean author Andrea Eames was 18 when her family, unable to put up with the threats of president Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party, fled...

Inspiration may strike writers in the most unlikely places; the idea for her second young adult (YA) novel came to Lauren Oliver while she was at...

Who would have thought contracting glandular fever was "a dream come true"?Well, Jill Mansell. But only because she has recently...