interview
Anything important – sex, death, love, freedom, whatever – and the Romans’ views were very different from ours. MM Bennetts in conversation with Harry Sidebottom
I first encountered Harry Sidebottom two summers ago, at the Kelmarsh Festival of History, where he he had been talking…
Erika Robuck on her new release Call me Zelda, as Gatsby opens in Cannes
AF: Congrats on the release of your third novel, Call Me Zelda. Like Hemingway’s Girl, Call Me Zelda is getting…
Deborah Swift talks Home Front Girls with Rosie Goodwin, the new Catherine Cookson
Rosie Goodwin has been billed as ‘the new Catherine Cookson’. Her latest book Home Front Girls is just out. Deborah…
Edward Rutherfurd talks Paris, the creative process and the ebb and flow of historical fiction with Mary Tod
Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of…
Richard Lee talks with Paul Lynch about his debut Red Sky in Morning
RL: You’ve been a film critic for some time. How do you think films inform your way of writing? Any…
Deborah Swift talks revolutionary Russia and violins with Vanora Bennett
DS: Whilst researching Midnight in St Petersburg you began making a violin as part of your research. Could you tell us…
MM Bennetts talks with Sandra Byrd about researching the Tudors
I had the immense pleasure of first meeting author Sandra Byrd in the autumn of 2012, when she lured me…
Jenny Quinlan talks with Helene Wecker on publication day of her debut The Golem and the Jinni
Today marks the publication of The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker, an immigrant tale that combines elements of…
Richard Lee talks to Jessie Burton, star debut author at the London Book Fair
Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist, ‘a feminist golden-age fiction’, tells the story of 18 year-old Nella, newly married to wealthy merchant…
Margaret James talks with Christina Courtenay about writing time-slip
MJ: What’s the attraction of writing time slip? CC: For me, it’s the chance to tell two stories in one,…
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