Echoes of the past

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

Out of Africa

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...

The challenge with any book series is to keep existing fans happy while appealing to new readers. Crucially, new readers need to be able to join...

"For me, there should be no difference between healthy food and tasty food. Because of my heart condition everything I eat has to nourish me...

Sunjeev Sahota was living in Leeds during the summer of the 7/7 London bombings in 2005, about a mile away, he reckons, from the four men who...

As the Economist's former Moscow correspondent from 2004 to 2007, A D (Andrew) Miller got to know the city well. He was writing...

Emily Giffin's fifth novel puts a marriage under the spotlight. In Heart of the Matter (Orion, November) Charlie, a young boy, is...

"You don't have to be a doctor all the time if people don't know [you are], until that fatal moment at a dinner party when you let...

An evening in February 2004 claimed the lives of at least 21 cockle-pickers when they were drowned by an incoming tide on Morecambe Bay. A further...

At first I was not sure which of the houses on the west London mews belonged to Polly Samson. But then I heard the sound of a piano drifting out...

Seven years after her first book for teenagers, A Gathering Light, won the Carnegie Medal, American writer Jennifer Donnelly makes a...