Newcastle-born Eliza Clark, 30, went viral on TikTok with her 2020 debut novel, Boy Parts, a violent, darkly comic thriller with a fetish photographer for an antiheroine, published by indie press Influx.... Read more »
Zoe Thorogood was walking back to her flat in Bradford last month when she got the call. For two days she had been trying to track down her younger brother, but with... Read more »
I spend a lot of my life being other people, spending years inside the lives of my fictional protagonists, and, when the creative alchemy is going well, it is intensely satisfying. Itâs... Read more »
Virginie Despentes, 55, was born in Nancy, France, and lives between Paris and Barcelona. Her books include her 1993 debut, Baise-Moi, about two sex workers on a killing spree; the feminist manifesto... Read more »
Ferdia Lennon, 36, was born and raised in Dublin. His first novel, Glorious Exploits, set in ancient Sicily, was the winner of this yearâs Waterstones debut fiction prize. It follows two jobless... Read more »
My earliest reading memoryProbably The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, read to me when I was perhaps three. It is very different from the movie and so was my first introduction to distortions and improvements... Read more »
It was the end of the 1990s, and I was in my 20s working as a legal academic at Kingâs College London, but I wasnât in love with the law. I needed a change.... Read more »
âI miss my solitude,â last yearâs Booker prize winner Paul Lynch told an audience at Hay festival on Saturday. âIn many ways I didnât sign up for this. Iâm an introvert whoâs... Read more »