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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

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