I think that anybody who has ever worked in a shop has been granted a perspective on the world that is unique. A secret code understood only by those of us who have Done Retail. Behind the counter, small-talk is a precise and continuous practice, you can end up in the crosshairs of the angriest moments of a person’s week just by virtue of existing where you do, you can witness all of the mosaic of life as it passes …
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It Should Have Been You is about a woman named Susan who writes a mean, gossipy message to her sisters all about a neighbour, Celeste, who gets on her nerves. …
The Kindness of Strangers. In an increasingly volatile world, I’ve been thinking about kindness. What does it mean? And why is it important. My new novel, Two Kinds of Stranger, …
When I began writing Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way, I returned to characters I had already spent time with. Claire and Tom first appeared in a short …
Three years ago, I began an unusual project. I decided to write four novellas, each 40,000 words long, based around the traditional building blocks of the universe – water, earth, …
I wrote The Names because I’ve always been fascinated by the things that shape us as people. Our upbringing, our circumstances, the interests we’re steered toward, the people we cross …
What does love do to our imaginations? That was the question that preoccupied me for years as I was writing Open, Heaven. The other question was, what happens when we …
Welcome back to Covers We Love: Volume 3, which is the place where we celebrate the most exciting and innovative book covers of the past few months, giving credit to …
Garrett Carr on help he received from old fishermen when writing The Boy from the Sea. The Boy from the Sea unfolds over twenty years and is about a fishing …
A darkly epic novel about connection, disconnection and destruction – from the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin. Twist by Colum …
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