I love to support independent shops. Like Morten’s they’re personal and part of our community. I’m lucky enough to leave my front door and stroll through Didsbury Village to my local bookshop, EJ Morten…
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When the only place you want to be is home… I can’t remember a time when I didn’t love Cornwall. I was taken down on families holidays as a baby, and I must have…
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A Very British Christmas is a twelve-stage sleigh ride through the best, worst, strangest and funniest aspects of the Christmas holiday, with cultural icons saluted, national habits dissected and personal reminiscences from those who’ve…
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Conversations FeaturedIs it truly possible to live without prejudice? Author June Sarpong on her new book ‘Diversify’
“While misunderstanding and strife dominate our world and its politics, there is an urgent need for understanding and connection.” The Earth is vast. But we have opportunities to connect with any other member of…
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Conversations‘This is an invisible epidemic’ – Jonathan Lyon on writing his electrifying debut – Carnivore
‘This is an invisible epidemic. I wrote my book in the hope of making it more visible. I wanted you to feel what I feel. I’m 25 and I never got to have a…
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Conversations Featured‘Her very selfhood, her personhood is under attack’ – Gabriel Tallent on writing the powerful ‘My Absolute Darling’
‘One of the most important books you’ll pick up this decade’ – Harper’s Bazaar In college, a professor introduced me to a long eighteenth-century poem by James Thomson called The Seasons. Tremendously influential in…
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Was it worse or better to find yourself lonely in a big city rather than in a small town or a village? Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine started with two related ideas. The first…
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Conversations FeaturedThe Indie-Dependent Woman – Author Angela Clarke On Why She Would Put a Ring On An Indie Bookshop
We all know books are magical. I don’t live in Sevenoaks, I don’t even live in Kent, and yet I find myself constantly drawn to Sevenoaks Bookshop. A good bookshop will do that to…
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ConversationsCynthia Sweeney on how writing ‘The Nest’ helped create compassion for her younger self
You have to write the pages you hate before you get to the pages you love. I wasn’t particularly surprised that much of the publicity surrounding my first book focused almost as much on…
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Author Elizabeth Day on the inspiration behind writing The Party and her fascination with unreliable narrators. I started writing The Party by ditching something else. For months, I’d been forcing myself to tell the…