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, …
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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 …
The Lamb stirred from my love of oral folktales – in particular, the ones I’d heard growing up. I’ve always had an infatuation with the idea of stories and how …
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