In February 1975 the New Zealand writer Janet Frame was the subject of a rare interview for television conducted by the journalist Michael Noonan. This relaxed, intimate retrospective of her life and work... Read more »
Does everyone really have a book in them? And if you want to write one, where do you start? The novelist and podcaster Elizabeth Day, host of the How to Fail series,... Read more »
Why do we love to read life writing? The answer seems to have as much to do with others as ourselves. At its best, life writing offers a heady compound of insight... Read more »
Jeremy Cooper, 77, was born in Dorset and lives in Somerset. An art historian who served as a guest expert on the Antiques Roadshow between 1979 and 1981, heâs the author of... Read more »
Joseph Coelho has won the Yoto Carnegie medal for children’s books, marking the first time the prize has been awarded to a Black British writer. Source link Read more »
Joseph Coelho has won the Yoto Carnegie medal for childrenâs books, marking the first time the prize has been awarded to a Black British writer. The current childrenâs laureate won the prize,... Read more »
Geri Halliwell-Horner has revealed she took writing advice from the twice Booker prize-nominated novelist William Boyd and the bestselling children’s author Jacqueline Wilson when working on her latest children’s book. The former... Read more »
The Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov was having dinner with friends at his home in Kyiv on the evening of 24 February 2022 when Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Within hours he was advised that his name probably... Read more »
Bruce Willis’ wife Emma Heming Willis is set to publish a book about her experience as a caregiver to her husband after he was disagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. The untitled book, which... Read more »