‘We left Ireland because there wasn’t work – and we wanted to get the hell away’: Trespasses author Louise Kennedy | Books

Louise Kennedy’s life has hardly wanted for dramatic events, but the recent past has been spectacularly busy, even by her standards. You wouldn’t know it to look at her, as we chat in... Read more »
Hagitude author Sharon Blackie: ‘At 60 I wasn’t ready to give up, I was just starting’ | Fairytales

Hagitude author Sharon Blackie: ‘At 60 I wasn’t ready to give up, I was just starting’ | Fairytales

Like many of the wise women in her books, Sharon Blackie lives miles from anyone. Hers is the only house on the road winding through a valley deep in the Yorkshire Dales. The... Read more »
Daisy Johnson: ‘I wasn’t a fan of David Szalay, but Flesh is a masterpiece’ | Books

Daisy Johnson: ‘I wasn’t a fan of David Szalay, but Flesh is a masterpiece’ | Books

My earliest reading memoryMemories from my childhood are opening up as I read to my own young children at the moment. Something in the pictures of Helen Cooper’s The Bear Under the Stairs or... Read more »
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