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Isabel Greenberg | 'Graphic novels are a medium, not a genre'

After two acclaimed, award-winning graphic novels set in fantastical worlds of her own making, Isabel Greenberg turns her attention to Glass Town, the Brontë siblings’... Read more

Michael Cashman | 'I have to keep pinching myself every day I’m here'

From Albert Square to Parliament Square, Michael Cashman’s career has been varied, colourful and frequently star-studded, as he documents in his new memoir ... Read more

Kate Pankhurst | 'Creating strong female characters for young readers is very important to me'

Kate Pankhurst’s latest look at some Fantastically Great Women has an ecological focus. Read more

Deepa Anappara | 'His voice really came from my experience as a reporter'

Informed by her time as a journalist in Mumbai and Delhi, Deepa Anappara’s début is a fine portrait of modern-day India. Read more

Deborah Orr | 'The more humble my beginnings, the more I appeared to have achieved'

Motherwell, the incisive memoir by Deborah Orr, unpicks the complexities of familial relationships. Read more

Benji Davies | 'Most of my stronger ideas start fairly small, but they stick in my mind'

Author-illustrator Benji Davies reveals how his latest picture book spawned from a single sketch. Read more

Kiley Reid | 'Those things aren’t her fault, but the fallacy of the American Dream makes her think that it is'

What is it like to be paid to be part of someone’s family? Kiley Reid’s début explores the uneasy nature of "transactional relationships".... Read more

Lucy Wyndham-Read | 'I hated sport at school'

With a massive online following, Lucy Wyndham-Read could be on the verge of publishing success with her book based on a seven-minute workout.... Read more

Priya Basil | 'Thinking of myself as European has been a way to hold all my different identities together'

In her latest work, Be My Guest, Priya Basil explores the meaning of hospitality and its unifying potential. Read more

Catherine Chung | 'Mathematics at its highest levels reminds me more of poetry than anything else'

In her first novel to be published in the UK, Catherine Chung tells the story of a gifted mathematician whose studies take her deep into... Read more

Frances Hardinge | 'My books are strange in quite different ways from each other'

Frances Hardinge’s eccentric backlist takes another unusual turn with a tale of the legacy of warring sea gods. Read more

Jung Chang | 'I think China is probably at a critical moment'

The modern fairytale of the Soong sisters is well known across China. Bestselling author Jung Chang looks set to bring the sisters’ stories to a... Read more

Jojo Moyes | 'I have to write this, this is mine'

The novel following Jojo Moyes’ hit trilogy Me Before You saw the author living deep in rural Kentucky to research a group of women librarians... Read more

Jenny Downham | 'Female anger is often seen differently from male anger'

Jenny Downham’s new novel tackles the effect a controlling step-father has on a teenage girl. Read more

Ann Patchett | 'Can you remember things the way they actually happened?'

Ann Patchett’s new novel is a moving story of siblings who lose everything—except each other. Read more