Authors

Joanne Harris has spoken out against an "absurd" focus on debuts in the publishing world.

The Chocolat author urged publishers to support existing writers in their careers rather than pursuing one debut after another, during a Q&A held with The Empowered Author founder Sam Missingham on Monday 23rd September.  Read more

Tracy Chevalier has earned a place of distinction among historical fiction writers for her beautifully imagined, meticulously detailed novels, including Girl with a Pearl Earring (1997), The Lady and the Unicorn (2003), and The Last Runaway (2013). Her latest novel, A Single Thread (Viking, Oct.), takes place in and around Winchester Cathedral during the early 1930s.

Oh, the heyday of publishing - big desks, lots of cash, martini-soused three-hour lunches, trying to appease your government. That was the world in which TS Eliot, then a director of Faber and FaberClick for Faber and Faber Publishers References listing, was living in 1944, when he rejected George Orwell's Animal Farm for its criticism of Stalin, who was then Britain's wartime ally.  Read more

No one seems to have escaped the fan fury over the finals season of Game of Thrones. While likely no one got it quite as bad as showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, even author George R.R. Martin-who wrote A Song of Ice and Fire, the book series upon which the show is based, faced backlash surrounding the HBO hit.  Read more

After the death of the great Nobel-prizewinning author, Ben Okri, Alice Walker, Elif Shafak and others offer their personal tributes

by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Aminatta Forna, Danez Smith, Caryl Philips, Lynn Nottage, Candace Allen, Candice Carty-Williams, Elif Shafak, Bonnie Greer, Preti Taneja, Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, Kamila Shamsie and Margaret Busby