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…
Interview with Pushkin Vertigo series cover designer Jamie Keenan
Questions by Victoria I’ve been looking at book covers you’ve designed and it’s an incredibly impressive range. How did you start working with books – was that always a goal…
An Interview with Joanne Limburg
By Victoria What I absolutely loved about A Want of Kindness was the voice you’ve managed to create. It was so brilliantly of the 17th century without ever losing clarity or…
Interview with Sam Mills, Editorial Director of Dodo Ink
Interview by Victoria The founders of Dodo Ink are a blogger/reviewer, a novelist and a digital publishing specialist – such an intriguing combination. How did you all come together and decide…
Q&A with Kathleen Benner Duble about Madame Tussaud’s Apprentice
Questions by Jenny Your fascination with Madame Tussaud is obvious. What led to your decision not to set the book from her perspective, but rather from the perspective of an invented street…
Interview with David Bradley, winner of the NHE Essay Prize 2015
Ingrid Wassenaar met up with David Bradley, winner of the second Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize for his essay ‘A Eulogy for Nigger’ for a conversation. Tell me your story! Well, what…
The Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize
Raymond Tallis Talks to Ingrid Wassenaar Those lovely people at Notting Hill Editions, home of the best in non-fiction essay writing, are in the midst of their search for the winner…
Q&A with Nicola Upson
Interview by Harriet It’s seven years since your first ‘Josephine Tey’ novel, An Expert in Murder, was published by Faber, and this year sees London Rain, the sixth in this highly successful series…
Martin Edwards Q&A
Questions by Harriet Harriet: Martin, although you have been a solicitor all your working life, it’s probably true to say that until recently you have been best known for your crime…
Interview with Jon Day, Author of Cyclogeography
Interview with Ingrid Wassenaar (Wednesday 3 June 2015) The other day, my son donned a backpack and wobbled off down our garden path on his small two-wheeler, all by himself,…
Shiny New Author: Sarah Bannan on Weightless
Interview by Victoria V: There’s been a spate of social media bullying cases in the news these past few years; was there any one particular event that sparked the idea…
Shiny New Author: Cecilia Ekbäck
Interviewed by Harriet H: Cecilia, we learn from your website that you spent twenty years in marketing after leaving university. Did you always harbour the ambition to be a writer,…
Interview with Jane Thynne on her Clara Vine Novels
Interview by Annabel A: Firstly, congratulations on A War of Flowers! It took the life and career of Clara Vine (Anglo-German film actress and British spy) to new and ever more thrilling…
An Interview with Phillip Lopate
Interview by Ingrid Wassenaar 1. Phillip, how did you come to essay writing? I came to essays through fiction. When I was starting out, I loved Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, or…
Shiny New Author: An interview with Frances Vick
In the second of our series where we interview new authors, Annabel talks to Frances Vick, author of Chinaski. A. When did you first realise you wanted to be an author…
Q&A with Peter May
Interview by Harriet H: Runaway is quite a different kind of book from your most recent novels, being both less dark (or perhaps dark in a different way) and not set on…
An Interview with Sophia Tobin, Author of The Widow’s Confession
Questions from Victoria 1. I found the two American cousins in The Widow’s Confession very evocative and enigmatic characters – what was your inspiration for their part of the story? It was…
Adèle Geras – A Life in Books
Interview by Victoria Adèle Geras and I had an unexpected chance to bond before we ever met. We were both on our way to a café in a south Cambridgeshire village,…
An Interview with Barbara Nadel
SNB: By way of introduction would you mind telling us a little bit about yourself? Barbara: I was born and brought up in the east end of London. Back then, in…
Shiny New Author: Questions for Angus Watson
In the first of a new series in which we interview debut authors, Victoria talked to Angus Watson, author of Age of Iron. V: When did you first realise you wanted…
An Interview with Tom Barbash
Tell us about your apprenticeship in art – what experiences have made you the writer you are today? My first real job after college was as a reporter in a…
Q&A with Mira Jacob
Questions by Victoria 1. Can you recall the first time you knew you wanted to be a writer? In second grade, we made our own blank-paged, cloth bound books. I…
Questions for Laurie Graham
Interview by Victoria Best First of all, I have to say that Annabel, my co-editor, and I are both enormous fans of your books. [Laurie: THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!] We’ve both been…
An Interview with Tim Winton
Tim Winton is arguably Australia’s greatest living writer. Born in Perth in 1960, he has written novels, short story collections, non-fiction, books for children, plays and television scripts. He has…