Paperback writer
Authors discuss their writing methods, and how they came to produce their new books
Legalise prostitution? We are being asked to accept industrialised sexual exploitation
Author of Pimp State, Kat Banyard explains how researching her book revealed why we need to end the sex trade - and how to do it
Carlo Rovelli: 'I felt the beautiful adventure of physics was a story that had to be told'
How does a book about theoretical physics sell more than 1m copies? Rovelli explains how he set about sharing his wonder at quantum science
Carne Ross: 'Diplomacy only works if it includes those affected – and it often doesn't'
After watching the destructive and unjust workings of international relations, former diplomat Carne Ross explains why direct democracy now makes more sense to him
'I had to stay in Raoul Moat's head': writing from the perspective of a killer
The author of You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life explains why he chose to test readers’ sympathy by writing about the killer in the second person
'I was in Ecuador - I had no memory of going there': what it is like to be in a coma
My own experience of this unfathomable reach of consciousness drew me to explore uncharted territory in my novel The Half Life of Joshua
Miroslav Penkov: why we should all claim this America as ours
The novel Stork Mountain draws on Muslim-Christian conflict, but the Bulgarian-born author says it is not a call to turn away from the US in response to hostility
Jenn Ashworth: 'Morecambe Bay intrigued me because I was frightened of it'
The author explains how an uneasy fascination with the shifting, treacherous coastal sands led her to write Fell, a story of sickness and healing
Richard T Kelly: 'I did Theresa May's job in my dreams for five years'
The novelist recalls how he began imagining a future Tory home secretary’s life while the Tories were still in opposition
A routine day's killing: investigating children's gun deaths in the US
In a single day in 2013, 10 American children died from gunshot wounds. I wanted to find out why this was nothing out of the ordinary
How to master the art of change in a world in flux
For her book Metamorphosis, Polly Morland interviewed everyone from a man who lost 18 stone to a monk who fell in love. Then Trump and Brexit happened …
The science of songs: how does music affect your body chemistry?
Classical music makes shoppers buy more. Gentle tunes can cure insomnia. How? Writer, composer and science lecturer John Powell explains
'I had an intimate knowledge of Hitler's drug habit that no one else possessed'
Norman Ohler recalls his excitement on discovering records of Nazi Germany’s deep involvement in drugs – and the hornets’ nest his book Blitzed stirred up
Translating Agatha Christie into Icelandic: 'One clue took 10 years'
Ragnar Jónasson explains how rendering the great English thriller writer into his own language taught him how to write fiction himself
Robots v experts: are any human professions safe from automation?
Technology already outperforms humans in many areas, but surely we would never accept machines as teachers, doctors or judges? Don’t be so sure
Sjón: 'Behind my book lies another I will never write'
The novelist recounts the bleak story of a psychic that led him, circuitously, to a story of a gay teenager making his way in flu-struck Reykjavik in 1918
Spain's Moriscos: a 400 year old Muslim tragedy is a story for today
Matthew Carr, the author of Blood and Faith, explains how the plight of the Moriscos, driven from their home country as detested aliens, has urgent lessons for our own age
Yanis Varoufakis: 'People were confused that I didn't support Brexit'
The radical Greek economist recalls how his polemic on the forces driving Europe apart turned in to real political life and made him finance minister
Writing about autism: 'Parents are sick of being asked what special skill their child has'
As the father of a non-verbal autistic boy, author Jem Lester recalls what it has been like to see his novel Shtum adopted by other parents of autistic children
Joanna Bourke: 'Speaking about suffering helps cope with it'
The author of The Story of Pain explains how an agonising hospital stay prompted her to explore an experience felt very differently down the ages
David Cay Johnston: 'Publishers assumed Trump would soon disappear'
The investigative reporter explains his struggle to publish alarming findings about the US’s extraordinary new president
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