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Paperback Q&A

15 March 2013

  • Julia by Otto de Kat – review

    Jane Housham on a novel of love and war, and a life spent accepting other people's choices

11 September 2012

  • Alice LaPlante

    Paperback Q&A: Alice LaPlante on Turn of Mind

    Alice LaPlante explains how painful family experience, and a challenge from her partner, set her writing a highly unusual kind of thriller

4 September 2012

  • Anita Desai

    Paperback Q&A: Anita Desai on The Artist of Disappearance

    The novelist talks about the challenges of recreating the events of a past era in her trio of novellas

21 August 2012

  • Jane Rogers

    Paperback Q&A: Jane Rogers on The Testament of Jessie Lamb

    Jane Rogers on her five-year quest and cold determination to unlock the true voice of her 16-year-old heroine

14 August 2012

  • Alex Preston

    Alex Preston on The Revelations – paperback Q&A

    Alex Preston explains the challenges of writing his latest novel, which saw him step inside the lives of young evangelicals

7 August 2012

  • Joan Bakewell

    Paperback Q&A: Joan Bakewell on She's Leaving Home

    Joan Bakewell describes the difficult task of satisfying the public's desire to know more about the 60s

31 July 2012

  • William Sieghart

    Paperback Q&A: William Sieghart on Winning Words

    The founder of the Forward prizes for poetry explains why an appropriate poem can be more helpful than therapy

24 July 2012

  • Grant Morrison, comic book writer

    Paperback Q&A: Grant Morrison on Supergods

    Comic-book writer Grant Morrison on locking himself in a room with 70 years' worth of comics

17 July 2012

  • JJ Connolly

    Paperback Q&A: JJ Connolly on Viva La Madness

    JJ Connolly talks about writing the sequel to his crime bestseller Layer Cake, Viva La Madness

10 July 2012

  • Paperback Q&A: Tim Jeal on Explorers of the Nile

    Tim Jeal on how his teenage journey inspired him to write the story of how five Victorian adventurers discovered the source of the White Nile

3 July 2012

  • Amy Waldman

    Paperback Q&A: Amy Waldman on The Submission

    Former New York Times reporter Amy Waldman on enjoying the freedom of writing fiction about the 9/11 memorial in Manhattan

26 June 2012

  • Niall Ferguson reith lecturer

    Paperback Q&A: Niall Ferguson on Civilization: The Six Killer Apps of Western Power

    Historian Niall Ferguson on writing a book of a TV series of a university course on the rise and fall of the west

19 June 2012

  • Stella Tillyard

    Paperback Q&A: Stella Tillyard on Tides of War

    Stella Tillyard explains how she moved from non-fiction to the world of the imagination

12 June 2012

  • Helen Oyeyemi

    Paperback Q&A: Helen Oyeyemi on Mr Fox

    Helen Oyeyemi on how she ignored her own plan for retelling the Bluebeard story, and reveals that ballet and doo-wop inspire her

5 June 2012

  • Amitav Ghosh

    Paperback Q&A: Amitav Ghosh on River of Smoke

    The Bengali Indian writer talks about the writing of the second book in his Ibis Trilogy, and tells us where he finds inspiration

30 May 2012

  • West End Front author Matthew Sweet

    Matthew Sweet on West End Front: Paperback Q&A

    Matthew Sweet says the best bit was drinking tea – or gin – with witnesses for his history of London's grand hotels in the second world war

22 May 2012

  • Ian Rankin, author of The Impossible Dead.

    Paperback Q&A: Ian Rankin on The Impossible Dead

    The crime writer reveals the research underpinning his second Malcolm Fox novel – and the strict plan that yields a book a year

15 May 2012

  • Jill Dawson … 'Once a novel is written, I’m already thinking about the next one'

    Paperback Q&A: Jill Dawson on Lucky Bunny

    The novelist reveals the inspiration behind her new novel about the women of crime, and discusses the joys of research

8 May 2012

  • Naomi Wood

    Paperback Q&A: Naomi Wood on The Godless Boys

    Naomi Wood describes the process of writing her dystopian first novel, which suggests extreme secularism can prove just as oppressive as dogmatic religion

1 May 2012

  • Madeline Miller

    Paperback Q&A: Madeline Miller on The Song of Achilles

    Madeline Miller: The author and classicist describes the inspiration behind her Orange prize-shortlisted first novel, which unravels the mysteries of the Iliad

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