Writers' careers

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

Author Terry Deary has a pretty good idea of why his Horrible Histories series is so popular.

"The problem with non-fiction books is they're written by experts who wouldn't know a child if it jumped up and bit them on the kneecap," he says.  Read more

I'm coming from an unusual place as a debut thriller-writer, in that I've already written half a dozen books of non-fiction about different aspects of tech culture: video games, the history of digital ideas, philosophy of technology, political protest, online language.  Read more

It's 10 years since David Nicholls' novel One Day became a publishing phenomenon - a word of mouth sensation that has sold more than five million copies around the world. Five years later came Us and now five years after that he's back with a new novel. But can he repeat the success with Sweet Sorrow - a story of falling in love for the first time?