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Lisa Jewell: 'I’d never killed anyone before'
Sunday, 30 July 2017
I started writing my first novel in 1995. I was 27 and I’d just come out of a dark, dark marriage to a... Read more... |
h.Club 100 Awards: Publishing and Writing - it's not all about the mainstream
Tuesday, 25 July 2017
For more than three decades I reported on the publishing industry as a business journalist. The books, the deals, the authors and the publishers, plus the bookshops that sold then. When I started... Read more... |
Peter Høeg: The Susan Effect review - Nordic noir turns surreal
Sunday, 23 July 2017
Peter Høeg is still overwhelmingly known for a novel published a quarter of a century ago. Miss Smilla’s... Read more... |
Sarah Hall: Madame Zero review – eerie tales of calamity and change
Sunday, 16 July 2017
Five thousand miles away from her native Lake District, I first understood the eerie magnetism of Sarah Hall’s fiction. As a regional judge for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, I’d travelled to... Read more... |
Enter theartsdesk's Young Reviewer of the Year Award
Saturday, 15 July 2017
The Hospital Club’s annual h.Club100 awards celebrate the most influential and innovative people working in the UK’s creative industries, with nominations from the worlds of film and fashion, art... Read more... |
Michael Connelly: The Late Show review - mesmerising and believable characters
Sunday, 09 July 2017
Readers have been committed fans since 1992, when the sometime crime reporter... Read more... |
Danny Goldberg: In Search of the Lost Chord review - 1967 well remembered
Sunday, 09 July 2017
I was 10 in 1967 though I remember much about the year, indeed about the era, not least the release of Sgt Pepper and the first live global satellite broadcast, when the... Read more... |
Eureka: novelist Anthony Quinn on completing his acclaimed trilogy
Sunday, 02 July 2017
I am intrigued by those writers who plan their novels with the bristling rigour of a military strategist,... Read more... |
Jonathan Miles: St Petersburg review - culture and calamity
Sunday, 02 July 2017
Talk about survival: St Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad, now again St Petersburg, all the same... Read more... |
Chris Patten: First Confession - A Sort of Memoir review - remembrances of government and power
Sunday, 02 July 2017
It’s 25 years since Chris Patten lost his seat as Conservative MP for Bath. The 1992 election was called by... Read more... |
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