· Albina and the Dog-Men · Alejandro Jodorowsky; translated by Alfred MacAdam · ex 2016; originally as Albina y los hombres perro, Ediciones Sirulea, 2002.
· Author Peter Higgins on Genre Mashups: “fantasy wants to break thriller apart” · Peter Higgins · ar
· Mowgli’s New Adventure · Katie · vi; competition prize winner for children to write stories inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. The winner was 8-year-old Katie.
· Philip Pullman Offers First Look at His Dark Materials Follow-up The Book of Dust · Danuta Kean · ar [Ref. Philip Pullman]
· Before His Dark Materials: Philip Pullman’s New Novel · Philip Pullman · ex
extract from La Belle Sauvage forthcoming from David Fickling Books (October 2017).
· Who Is the Dice Man? The Elusive Writer Behind the Disturbing Cult Novel · Emmanuel Carrère · ex (r), as “In Search of the Dice Man” [Ref. Luke Rhinehart]
from 97,196 Words, Bodley Head, November 2019.
· Legendary Paris Bookshop Reveals Reading Habits of Illustrious Clientele · Alison Flood · ar [Ref. Ernest Hemingway]; about lending library of Shakespeare and Company being digitized.
· Unseen Spoof by Raymond Chandler Shows Writer’s “Human Side” · Alison Flood · ar [Ref. Raymond Chandler]; about publication of “Advice to an Employer” in The Strand.
· Akwaeke Emezi Shuns Women’s Prize for Details of Sex as Defined “By Law” · Alison Flood · ar [Ref. Akwaeke Emezi]
· “I Guess I’m Having a Go at Killing It”: Salman Rushdie to Bypass Print and Publish Next Book on Substack · Shelley Helpworth · ar [Ref. Salman Rushdie]
· And Then There Were Two: Novel Thought to Have Inspired Agatha Christie Gets First UK Publication · Alison Flood · ar [Ref. Gwen Bristow & Bruce Manning]
· “Villanelle Will Be Back!” Killing Eve’s Author Speaks Out Over the Catastrophic TV Finale · Luke Jennings · ar
· “Life is short, so you have to get on with it”: AF Steadman on Unicorns, Leaving Law and Her Record-Breaking Book Deal · Claire Armistead · iv [Ref. A. F. Steadman]
· “I Just Wanted My Life to End”: The Mystery of Agatha Christie’s Disappearance · Lucy Worsley · ex [Ref. Agatha Christie]
from Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman forthcoming from Hodder & Stoughton (September 2022).
· “I Think I Was Good, Though I Could Have Been Better”: Terry Pratchett and the Writing of His Life · Rob Wilkins · ex from Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes, Doubleday, September 2022
· Talking Typewriters and Slithering Eels: An Extract from Garth Marenghi’s Chilling New Novel · Garth Marenghi · ex
from TerrorTomes forthcoming from Hodder Studio (November 3, 2022).
· Garth Marenghi: “Many writers cite me as an influence…and I will be suing them all” · Rich Pelley · iv [Ref. Garth Marenghi]
· Jonathan Coe: “We’re a nation driven by emotion and not by reason” · Lisa Allardice · iv [Ref. Jonathan Coe]
· “I Want to Open a Window in Their Souls”: Haruki Murakami on the Power of Writing Simply · Haruki Murakami; translated by Philip Gabriel & Ted Goossen · ex from Novelist as a Vocation, Doubleday, November 2022
translated from the Japanese.
· Ink · Olivia Douglass · ss; winner of the 4thWrite prize for short story by a previously unpublished writer of colour, sponsored by the Guardian and publisher 4th Estate.
· Olivia Douglass Wins 4thWrite Prize for “Gripping” Short Story Ink · Sarah Shaffi · ar [Ref. Olivia Douglass]
· The War Poets Were the Reason I Left the Army and Became a Writer · Michael Morpurgo · ar
· Recently Discovered Wind in the Willows Illustration to Be Sold at Auction · Sarah Shafti · ar [Ref. E. H. Shepard]
· “Taking life advice from John Donne would be disastrous”—The Roof-Waling, Trapeze-Flying Baillie Gifford winner · Lisa Allerdice · iv [Ref. Katherine Rundell]
· “I believe literature is in peril”: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Comes Out Fighting for Freedom of Speech · Zoe Williams · iv [Ref. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie]
· “Hilary and I were both broken women”: Louise Penny on Writing a Political Thriller with Clinton · Alison Flood · iv [Ref. Louise Penny & Hillary Clinton]