The author of the Sharpe novels tells Sarah Crown about his new book, The Fort, set during the American war of independence ... and why it hasn't gone down well in New England

The creator of Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer, talks about living with a criminal child genius, comparisons with JK Rowling and bringing down the curtain on the character who made his name

The Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk talks about the perils of being mistaken for his narrators, the deception at the heart of fiction and why he is building a museum to accompany his latest novel

Jonathan Lethem talks about not talking about 9/11, tangling with the quote police, getting high on information and the memorial to David Foster Wallace buried in his latest novel, Chronic City

Jasper Fforde, best known for his adventures of literary detective Thursday Next in the surreal Book World and the only slightly less surreal Swindon, talks to Sarah Crown about his new novel, Shades of Grey, and the boundary between utopias and dystopias

The Spanish author Javier Marías talks to Richard Lea about the looping trajectory of his three-volume epic, Your Face Tomorrow, his father's wish to see himself portrayed in fiction and why he prefers his own novel in translation

Owen Sheers talks to Sarah Crown about love, war and cruelty to animals in White Ravens, his modern re-telling of one of the 11 stories of the Welsh myth cycle, the Mabinogion

Meg Rosoff is appearing at this weekend's Hay Festival at Kings Place, London to talk about her new novel, the 19th-century, Hardy-esque tale of Pell and her brother Bean, The Bride's Farewell. Here, she reads from it and and talks to Sarah Crown about growing up, publishers and horse-riding

This year's Man Booker prizewinner, Hilary Mantel, talks to Sarah Crown about her triumphant novel, Wolf Hall, how she came to admire her scheming hero Thomas Cromwell, and why she writes historical fiction

The author of The Time Traveler's Wife talks about her latest novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, on location at Highgate Cemetery in London

The Liverpudlian comic and author talks to Sarah Crown about his latest novel, Mister Roberts, why he now prefers writing to comedy, and why he'll never win the Booker prize

Richard Dawkins talks about why it's time for a book setting out the evidence for evolution, when calling someone ignorant isn't an insult, and how the media have made him into a militant atheist

MJ Hyland, Man Booker shortlisted in 2006 for Carry Me Down, talks about the pressure of writing in the spotlight, her love of tragedy and the politics beneath the surface of her latest novel, This Is How, which appears on the Guardian's inaugural Not the Booker prize shortlist

As the death of Harry Patch brings an era to a close, Andrew Motion talks about being a war poet without a war, measuring himself up against his father's bravery and the poetry in the end of a line

Glen David Gold won commercial and critical success with his debut novel, Carter Beats the Devil. Eight years later, he's back with a new novel, Sunnyside, which follows the life of Charlie Chaplin against the backdrop of the first world war and the birth of the film industry. He talks to Sarah Crown about writing real figures into his fiction, the pleasures and pitfalls of research and the lure of Chaplin himself

The novelist tells Sarah Crown about reimagining the presidential vices and vanities of John F Kennedy, and the secret politics of his hair and suntan

Adam Foulds reads from his novel The Quickening Maze and talks to Sarah Crown about poetry, fiction and the frightening challenge of portraying two geniuses

The celebrated 'psychogeographer' talks about the London borough that has been his home and muse for 40 years, and how the Olympic development is changing it