Bibliobibuli

All fiction is autobiographical. But you move the furniture around. So all fiction is also invented. Real life shot through with fantasy – t...

After the New Yorker 's list of twenty American fiction writers under the age of 40 to watch out for last week, Lorna Bradbury in The Te...

Troubles by J.G. Farrell, the first novel of his Empire Trilogy ,  has been declared the winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize, forty years ...

(UK) National Short Story Prize 2008 winner Clare Wigfall is going to be working on a new collection of short stories, and a novel for Faber...

The second week of the British Council's City of Stories workshops was lead by author Ardashir Vakil , whose first novel Beach Boy won ...

The BBC announced an all-female line-up for its National Short Story Prize : Naomi Alderman's Other People's Gods Kate Clanchy'...

The beauty of reading a book by yourself is how the author's imagination interacts with your own, in a way it doesn't if you're ...

There's another excellent interview with Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel, this time in The Independent with Boyd Tonkin . And o...

Got a very nice surprise in the post today. Philip Tatham of Monsoon Books sent me his latest publication - Frederick Lees' novel The...

William Boyd talks about double lives and double dealing and his new novel to Christian House in The Independent , and is profiled by Chris...

What, then, of the 2009 shortlist? At first glance, it breaths the spirit of the 1970s. Fiercely English, it is strongly inclined to the his...

Peace of mind doesn't always seem to be the territory of a successful author. This may be I think be for the best (at least for us reade...

The Guardian has released its longlist for the First Book Award . It's a pretty eclectic collection, taking in debut works of fiction,...

I almost missed this very nice piece from Saturday's Star . Our friend Caving Liz makes a journey to find the Linggi River in Negri Sem...

Some lovers were parting. She must have been twenty, he a few years older. Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood was in her bag. They had oversiz...

Viewed through the prism of the media, his record-breakingly popular novels are universally condemned as dishonest tat. Andew Collins at The...

Some rather unsavoury aspects of author, William Golding, have come to light after John Carey, the emeritus professor of English literat...

In old age you can close your eyes and summon your youth at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage. Author of both adult and ...

As an analyst my effort was always to find the place within myself that could communicate with the other person ... I would try and find the...

This year's Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction has gone to a book about whales , Philip Hoare's Leviathan which has been describe...