The most interesting author interviews delve deeper than just asking the authors about their writing schedules or what advice they'd give to budding scribes. These interviews look at issues and events from around the globe and provide readers with plenty of food for thought.
Kit de Waal talks about her debut novel,
My Name Is Leon, a sparkling, big-hearted, page-turning debut set in the 1970s about a young black boy's quest to reunite with his beloved white half-brother after they are separated in foster care.
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My Name Is LeonIn this wide ranging and not to be missed interview Olga Grushin discusses her novel
Forty Rooms, a mysterious and ultimately emotionally devastating novel.
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Forty RoomsSally Hepworth discusses
The Secrets of Midwives, which tells the story of three generations of women devoted to delivering new life into the world - and the secrets they keep that threaten to change their own lives forever.
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The Things We KeepA Conversation with Laurie Notaro about her first historical novel,
Crossing the Horizon, about three real-life women who attempted to fly across the Atlantic in the 1920s.
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Crossing the HorizonA Conversation with Stewart O'Nan about
City of Secrets, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War.
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Louisa Thomas explains the process behind the research for her biography of the only foreign-born first lady, Louisa Adams.
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LouisaBrad Watson discusses his novel
Miss Jane and the woman who inspired it, his great-aunt who suffered from the same birth defect as his character.
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Miss JaneBen H. Winters discusses his novel
Underground Airlines set in a contemporary version of the USA in which the Civil War never happened and slavery is still legal in some parts of the country.
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Underground Airlines
