David Szalay, 51, grew up in London and now lives in Vienna with his wife, having previously moved in 2009 to Hungary, his father’s birthplace. In 2016 he was shortlisted for the... Read more »
David Nicholls, Dolly Alderton, Caroline O’Donoghue and Kaliane Bradley are among the writers in the running to have a pig named after their book. The authors have been shortlisted for the Bollinger... Read more »
It was mostly in the small hours that I first read David Goodhartâs new book on caring. By coincidence, it arrived as I was trying to look after my dying father at... Read more »
In 2011, the psychologist (and Nobel laureate) Daniel Kahneman proposed that we humans are bimodal animals capable only of two modes of thought. One (which he called âSystem 1â) is fast, instinctive... Read more »
You could see Peaceâs new book as his third in a series of novels centred on football bosses â the Manageriad? â after The Damned Utd (about Brian Clough) and Red or... Read more »
In early 2015, a couple of months after his mother died, David Baddiel wrote to his younger brother, Dan, a sometime taxi driver in New York, setting out his plans for âa... Read more »
The historian David Olusoga has said the UK is the one country left in the British empire as he likened it to being the last oblivious person at a party. Asked at... Read more »
David Nicholls has warned his fans not to attempt to visit the locations in his new novel. While those who loved the hit Netflix adaptation of Nichollsâ novel One Day have been... Read more »
Elmer and the climate crisis: lost story by David McKee set to be published | Children and teenagers
From the depths of his extraordinarily vibrant imagination, he famously conjured up Mr Benn, Not Now, Bernard, King Rollo and Elmer the patchwork elephant. Elmer and the White Bear, by David McKee,... Read more »