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Q&A with Nicholas Royle, author of David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine

Questions by Annabel Hello Nicholas, it’s great to ask you some questions about your fascinating new book which I enjoyed reading so much. I fondly remember our previous encounter for…

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Q&A with Charlotte Vassell, on The Other Half

Questions by Harriet Harriet: Hi Charlotte. Thanks for agreeing to answer some questions. I have to tell you that The Other Half was one of the most enjoyable novels I’ve…

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Adam O’Riordan answers questions on The Falling Thread

Interview by Harriet As an already successful poet and short-story writer, what made you turn to the novel? Was it a sudden decision or a long-term ambition? It was a…

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Q&A for Nicola Upson on Stanley & Elsie

Interview by Harriet Harriet: Thanks for agreeing to do this, Nicola. I have recently finished reading and reviewing Stanley and Elsie and enjoyed it tremendously. So my first question has…

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Interview with Rosamund Bartlett about Dostoyevsky and “The Russian Soul”

Interview by Karen Langley Karen: Rosamund, thank you for agreeing to an interview with Shiny New Books! You have a distinguished career as a translator, and also as the author of…

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The Other Woman by Laura Wilson
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Questions for Laura Wilson on The Other Woman

Interview by Harriet Harriet: Hi Laura – thanks for agreeing to answer some questions. I really loved The Other Woman and have some questions specifically about that. But first, our…

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Giving​ ​A​ ​Voice​ ​-​ ​an​ ​Interview​ ​with​ ​Miranda​ ​Gold

Interview by Victoria Miranda​ ​Gold​ ​is a writer based in London. Her first novel, Starlings, published by Karnac in December 2016, reaches back three generations to explore how the impact of…

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Questions for Louise Welsh about Plague Times Trilogy

Questions by Annabel Annabel: When you began writing these books, had you already planned a trilogy? Had you ever thought that A Lovely Way to Burn could be a standalone novel, ending on…

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A conversation with Sally Rooney, author of Conversations With Friends

Interview by Lucy Unwin We caught up with Sally at the Hay Festival 2017 where she told us: The foursome at the centre of the novel: Frances and Bobbi, the…

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The Lie of the Land by Amanda Craig
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Questions for Amanda Craig about her novel, The Lie of the Land

Interview by Annabel Annabel: I loved reading The Lie of the Land, and it had me giggling all the way through. Before I discuss some of the themes, I’d like to ask…

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Q&A with Nicholas Royle, author of An English Guide to Birdwatching

Interview by Annabel Annabel: Firstly, I apologise, but I must admit, when offered this book for review, I initially mixed you up with the other Nicholas Royle, something you must (both)…

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Interview with Megan Hunter about The End We Start From

Interview by Lucy Unwin Lucy: This is a very unusual book: it may be a novel, but it has the sensibility of poetry. People won’t have had a chance to…

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Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s
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Q&A with Anne Sebba, author of Les Parisiennes

Helen: Hello Anne! Let me first say that I was bowled over by Les Parisiennes – it’s a real tour de force of narrative history, totally absorbing and allowing the…

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Questions for Martine McDonagh

Interview by Annabel Narcissim for Beginners is Martine McDonagh’s third novel, reviewed by Annabel here. Annabel: How did you find the whole Unbound experience? (see our Spotlight on Publishers chat with Unbound…

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Q&A with Stef Penney

Questions by Annabel Annabel: This has been a vintage year for me reading books about the frozen white stuff – I’ve read so many, both fiction and non-fiction, but your…

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Q&A with Samantha Norman

Samantha was interviewed by Harriet H: Hi Samantha – thanks for agreeing to answer some questions. I very much enjoyed Winter Siege, and wondered if you could say something about the…

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Questions for Kirstin Smith & Rowland Manthorpe about Confidence

Interview by Victoria Due to unusual circumstances, my husband read this novel out loud to me (we both loved it).  So, from a reading couple to a writing couple, how…

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The Good Guy by Susan Beale
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Shiny New Author: Susan Beale

Questions by Victoria Has writing been a long-held ambition for you or is this novel something that you happened to fall into? How I wish I were the type of…

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Questions for Peggy Frew about Hope Farm

Interview by Annabel Annabel: Firstly, congratulations on Hope Farm being shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. This young literary prize is starting to get some notice in the UK and…

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Some Questions for Lucy Caldwell

Asked by HarrietLucy, people always like to know how a writer got started. So can you tell us about your beginnings, and when you realised you were going to be…

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Shiny New Author: Stephanie Danler

Questions by Rebecca Foster 1. Readers learn so few facts about Tess – even her name and where she’s from are not revealed until a long way into the book,…

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Questions for Sharon Guskin

1. The Forgetting Time is your first novel, and we understand that previously your career has been in the film world. Have you always wanted to write? Pretty much. I first started…

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An Interview with Professor Janet Todd

Questions by Victoria and Harriet Throughout her long and illustrious academic career, Janet Todd has been a pioneer in women’s writing, recovering lost and neglected authors. She has written biographies…

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Q&A with Laila Lalami

Questions by Helen Skinner 1. The Moor’s Account is narrated by the Moroccan slave, Mustafa al-Zamori, also known as Estebanico. What made you decide to write the novel from Estebanico’s point of…

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