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David Sedaris: The humorist with a heart
David Sedaris From Daily Telegraph
For someone who sells books by the truckload (almost eight million in 25 languages) and who can instantly fill theatres with audiences craving to hear him read from his work,…
10 March 2010
Talitha Stevenson: I’ve never met a rich person who was happy
Talitha Stevenson From Evening Standard
Novelist Talitha Stevenson's life fell apart in line with the global financial meltdown. For six years she lived the hedge fund dream in Portobello with her banker husband. Last summer…
5 March 2010
Lunch with the FT: Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho From Financial Times
Over orange juice and a boiled egg, the bestselling Brazilian author talks about reconverting to the Catholic faith of his boyhood and life as an internet junkie
5 March 2010
Zoe Margolis: Casual sex and the London single girl
Zoe Margolis From Evening Standard
Bars and clubs are over,” sex blogger Zoe Margolis, 36, tells me. “It's all fun and flirty. But you're not really finding anything out about someone if you meet them…
4 March 2010
Katie Davies: My life married to Alan Davies, London’s funniest man
Katie Davies From Evening Standard
What sort of woman tames the funniest man in London? A clever one, of course. But that's not necessarily a guarantee of wit or intellect. Often long legs or a…
1 March 2010
Sharon Osbourne on politics, literature - and life with Ozzy
Sharon Osbourne From The Guardian
Sharon Osbourne will be two hours late for her interview. A photo shoot is overrunning says her marvellously named assistant, Silvana Arena. As we enter the Osbourne mansion in Hidden…
1 March 2010
Kureshi reflects on middle age
Hanif Kureishi From BBC Radio 4, Today
Hanif Kureishi used to be seen as an enfant terrible of books, shocking the literary world with some of his work. Now in his mid-50s , and with a new…
1 March 2010
Hilary Mantel interview
Hilary Mantel From Daily Telegraph
Her ability to inhabit her characters has brought Hilary Mantel countless fans, and now the Booker prize. As she works on the sequel to 'Wolf Hall’, she talks about her…
1 March 2010
My Hols: Katie Davies
Katie Davies From Sunday Times
It’s amazing how often Alan will say something like, “Do you fancy a weekend in Milan?” And I’ll say, “Yes, sure.” And when we get there, he’ll say, “Oh, look,…
28 February 2010
Gary Greenberg: 'Am I happy enough?'
Gary Greenberg From The Observer
Psychotherapist and author of Manufacturing Depression Gary Greenberg talks to Tim Adams about drugs, depression and true love. Gary Greenberg first realised he suffered from what we have come to…
28 February 2010
Booker novelist claims girls are ready to give birth at the age of just 14
Hilary Mantel From Sunday Telegraph
Girls as young as 14 are ready to have babies, a Mann Booker Prize-winning author has claimed. Hilary Mantel, 57, told the Sunday Telegraph: 'Having sex and having babies is…
28 February 2010
Rose Tremain: more than ‘just’ an historical novelist
Rose Tremain From The Times
The author who made her name with Restoration deserves to emerge from the shadow of her illustrious peers. William Golding nicked Rose Tremain’s suitcase. Yes, really. “It was a British…
27 February 2010
Lunch with the FT: Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer From Financial Times
The successful novelist, who burst on to the literary scene in 2002 with 'Everything Is Illuminated', turns his attention to vegetarianism and ethical consumption
26 February 2010
Hanif Kureishi: My era is over
Hanif Kureishi From Evening Standard
Martin Amis is not the only one to dread ageing. Hanif Kureishi has said some pretty grim things about mid-life and after too. In his brilliant novella The Body, first…
25 February 2010
Mark Millar: Just for Kicks
Mark Millar From Total Sci Fi
The comic book writer on Kick-Ass, Wanted and much more.
17 February 2010
