Jo Harkin: "The Middle Ages was full of bold and irreverent voices"

India, July 6 -- How did you get the right language and motivations of the time in The Pretender, and what were sources you relied on? I read a lot of excellent modern historians such as Thomas Penn,... Read More

Sian Hughes: "Middle-aged women are invisiblised all over the world"

India, July 2 -- Your darkly funny novel is also a coming-of-age story of a woman trying to emerge from her father's shadow and deal with the idea of shame, along the way. I think it's quite an angry... Read More

'Writing, at its core, is a sonic exercise'

India, June 20 -- 1What was the driving imagery behind Eradication? The seeds for this novel were planted 20 years ago, when I was in the Galapagos Islands on a reporting assignment. I was with the Ec... Read More

GauZ: "If you don't have style, don't write"

India, June 16 -- In an interview with the Booker Foundation in 2023, you mention making notes while working as a security guard. How did you transform that into Standing Heavy? It was a lazy experie... Read More

Report: The White Owl Literature Festival and Book Fair

India, June 12 -- The third edition of the White Owl Literature Festival and Book Fair was held in Dimapur at Zone Niathu by The Park, from 5 to 7 February. For this correspondent, who has never been ... Read More

Addie E Citchens: "Boys are handed power while girls are handed shame"

India, June 1 -- How did you structure the novel, with its notes from the Minister's Desk, two dominant voices, and interludes? I just let the story come out like it wanted, refusing to make it bend ... Read More

Review: Heart the Lover by Lily King

India, May 29 -- The multi-award-winning American novelist Lily King (63), who was nominated for the 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, is also on the shortlist of this year's Women's Prize for Fict... Read More

'The urge to write never really left me'

India, May 23 -- 1In an interview, you noted that as a 62-year-old, you thought your moment had passed. But here you are, shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction for your debut novel. Tell us wh... Read More

Review: Departure(s) by Julian Barnes

India, May 8 -- This is from Primo Levi's The Periodic Table (1984): "We are here for this - to make mistakes and to correct ourselves, to stand the blows and hand them out. We must never feel disarme... Read More

'It is in the nature of art to be problematic'

India, May 2 -- 1Your novel, The Director (2025), is divided into three parts - Outside, Inside, and After - mimicking the process of movie-making: a film's inception, its production and its afterlife... Read More

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