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Justin Ruthven-Tyers talks about his book Phoenix from the Ashes
Posted On: April 19, 2012Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Bloomsbury
After a fire destroyed their house, Justin and his wife Linda irrationally decided to build a 15-ton classic yacht, as complete amateurs – starting with the trees.
Read More...A Bizarre But True Tale of Androids, Kill Switches, and Left Luggage
Posted On: April 3, 2012Posted In: Competitions, Extracts
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Read an extract from Losing the Head of Philip K. Dick, by David Duffy for a chance to win one of five copies, courtesy of One World Publications.
Read More...An extract from Phoenix from the Ashes
Posted On: March 20, 2012Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Bloomsbury
After a fire destroyed their house, Justin and his wife Linda irrationally decided to build a 15-ton classic yacht, as complete amateurs – starting with the trees…
Read More...An Intimate Portrait of the World’s Most Mysterious Continent…
Posted On: March 5, 2012Posted In: Audio, Interviews, Video
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Gabrielle Walker, author, consultant to New Scientist and regular broadcaster with the BBC has written a book unlike any that has ever been written about the continent of Antarctica.
Read More...An extract from Then They Came For Me
Posted On: February 2, 2012Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Read an extract from Then They Came For Me, a story of injustice and survival in Iran’s most notorious prison, out this month via One World Publications.
Read More...Discover Then They Came For Me
Posted On: February 1, 2012Posted In: Extracts, Video
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
A story of injustice and survival in Iran’s most notorious prison, Then They Came For Me, is published today.
Watch the author, Maziar Bahari, discuss his experiences.
Read More...An extract from Cairo
Posted On: January 19, 2012Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Read an extract of Cairo, Ahdaf Soueif’s account of the revolution and a personal journey into the city of her childhood.
Read More...Biography is Dead…
Posted On: January 10, 2012Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
The grand literary biography, alongside the Booker winner, used to be the jewel on an editor’s list. But those days seem to have gone… but according to Faber’s Neil Belton, every once in a while a biographer comes along with a fascinating yet overlooked life, and the potential is clear to all.
Read More...Joseph Galliano on putting Dear Me together
Posted On: December 13, 2011Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
The original UK edition took three months to compile, an Irish edition took two months, but the American version of the book (released in the UK as Dear Me, More Letters To My Sixteen Year Old Self) was an altogether more marathon task…
Read More...An extract from Henry’s Demons
Posted On: December 9, 2011Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son’s Story.
On a cold February day two months after his 20th birthday, Henry waded into the lethally cold Newhaven estuary and almost drowned. The trees, he said, had told him to do it.
Read More...An extract from Rifleman, by Victor Gregg, with Rick Stroud
Posted On: November 28, 2011Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Bloomsbury
This is the story of a true survivor.
A Front-line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall…
Read More...More Pyg…
Posted On: November 23, 2011Posted In: Audio, Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
More from the star of the world’s first ‘pigaresque’ novel, a beguiling and charming memoir of Toby, an exceptionally gifted pig who escapes the butcher’s knife, gains an education and becomes the most famous animal of his time…
Read More...Introducing Pyg, or, Toby the Pig…
Posted On: November 21, 2011Posted In: Audio, Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
This, the world’s first ‘pigaresque’ novel, is the beguiling and charming memoir of Toby, an exceptionally gifted pig who escapes the butcher’s knife, gains an education and becomes the most famous animal of his time…
Read More...My Father’s Fortune
Posted On: October 7, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Faber
‘It took him quite a long time to accept that I had some other qualities, abilities, to write and so forth, which in his eyes never really made up for lack of sporting ability, but eventually we found some sort of common ground.’
Read More...Stefan Merrill Block on The Storm at the Door
Posted On: August 8, 2011Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Faber
The Storm at the Door’s central characters are the author’s grandparents, including a grandfather that the author never knew. A grandfather whose battles with depression would mirror those of the novelist many decades later. Read on for an interview with Stefan Merrill Block.
Read More...The fall and rise of Matt Hampson
Posted On: August 5, 2011Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Engage author Paul Kimmage talks to ex-England rugby player Matt Hampson, who dislocated his neck during a game.
Read More...Discover The Paper Garden
Posted On: July 19, 2011Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Mary Delany was seventy-two years old when she noticed a petal drop from a geranium. In a flash of inspiration, she picked up her scissors and cut out a paper replica of the petal, inventing the art of collage.
Read More...Discover Chasing the Sun by Richard Cohen
Posted On: June 28, 2011Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
The Sun is so powerful, so much bigger than us, that it is a terrifying subject. Yet though we depend on it, we take it for granted. Download an extract from Chasing the Sun – a cultural and scientific history of our relationship with the star that gives us life.
Read More...Babysitting George
Posted On: May 30, 2011Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Bloomsbury
‘So George Best walks into a pub…’ Howls of laughter drown out the punch line, and for the first time since I heard the news of his death I smile. George would have liked that one.
Celia Waldon on her unusual relationship with one of the most famous footballers ever.
Read More...Watch the trailer for Neil Strauss’ Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead
Posted On: May 28, 2011Posted In: Video
Publisher: Canongate
Neil Strauss, author of The Game and dubbed ‘the Mike Tyson of rock’n'roll celeb therapy-journalism’, delves into the psyche of the world’s most famous rock stars in Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead.
Read More...Goodbye Sarajevo
Posted On: March 30, 2011Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Watch an interview with Atka Reid and Hana Schofield, the authors of Goodbye Sarajevo, published in May by Bloomsbury.
A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival.
Read More...Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son’s Story
Posted On: March 29, 2011Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
On a cold February day two months after his 20th birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into the freezing water of Newhaven estuary outside Brighton and tried to swim across, almost drowning in the process. Voices, he said, had told him to do it.
Listen to Henry and Patrick Cockburn, authors of Henry’s Demons discuss their experiences.
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