China Miéville
Uzodinma Iweala
Kate Pullinger
Robert Ingpen
Michelle Paver
Jonathan Stroud
Lauren Child
Emily Gravett
Elsie Aidinoff
Podcast interviews
Eoin Colfer
Jonathan Stroud
Features and Interviews Archive
Features
Braving new worlds
Real world fashion and music companies have already established footholds in the 3D virtual reality world Second Life. Now publishers are moving in and creating a virtual literary scene.
The middle way: the launch of Transita
Are you a woman? Over 45? Having trouble finding fiction you can relate to? A new imprint claims to be the answer to your prayers. But it has inadvertently opened up a can of worms...
A Wales of a time
The Hay festival may be held in Wales, but the programme is largely given over to English and American authors. What does the festival have to offer fans of Welsh writing?
Theme and variations
Cloud Atlas didn't win the Booker prize - but with his careful blending of non-linear, first-person narratives, David Mitchell has found his vocal range.
If you want something doing ...
Mark Blayney's self-published novel has won a Somerset Maugham prize for young authors. He tells Michelle Pauli about being noticed by literary agents, getting an endorsement from Beryl Bainbridge and the importance of a round-numbered price.
Fan fiction
Michelle Pauli has some advice for fans desperate for new adventures from the wizards at Hogwarts or cult series such as the X-Files.
Click lit
Publishers are beginning to wake up to the creative and promotional potential of the internet
The best medicine
Struck down with an ear infection in Kerala, Sarah Waters proved the perfect rest-cure.
Interviews
'I'm a fantasy geek'
China Miéville talks to Michelle Pauli about monsters, the marginalisation of sidekicks - and evil giraffes.
Down with Alice
Kate Pullinger talks to Michelle Pauli about gameplay, narrative and atmosphere in Inanimate Alice, her award-winning digital novel.
Hooked on classics
Robert Ingpen talks to Michelle Pauli about how illustration breathes new life into classic children's literature - and why JK Rowling shouldn't listen to Stephen King
The stone age diaries
Wolf Brother author Michelle Paver talks to Michelle Pauli about the challenges of creating a Paleolithic world, her deep affection for her characters, and what seal blubber really tastes like
A kind of magic
Jonathan Stroud, author of the bestselling Bartimaeus trilogy, talks to Michelle Pauli about mixing fantasy and politics, and the danger of making mistakes when your audience is made up of children
Child's eye view
Clarice Bean creator Lauren Child has used her latest picture book to tackle issues of wealth and social class. She talks to Michelle Pauli about the films from her own childhood that inspired the story - and why her underlying message is still 'don't worry, be happy'
Kids' stuff
Emily Gravett's delightfully illustrated debut book, Wolves, is shortlisted for this year's Nestlé children's book prize 'five and under' category. She talks to Michelle Pauli about her unorthodox route into children's literature
Up the Garden path
Elsie Aidinoff has shocked middle America with her radical reworking of the Genesis story. She talks to Michelle Pauli about the sense of injustice that triggered her retelling
Airy escapes
Jonathan Stroud, author of The Amulet of Samarkand, explains why writing fantasy fiction should be like putting bubbles in an Aero