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Date: 01/01/1970
Type: Book

A Little Of What You Fancy

In the final book of the series that began with The Darling Buds of May, the fun-loving Pop Larkin finds himself confined to a bed following a mild heart attack - caused by a little too much of what he fancied.

Date: 22/01/1970
Type: Book

The Hand-Reared Boy

The tone of The Hand-Reared Boy is lightly humorous, with a sentiment that never drops into sentimentality. It presents without swagger, much that is not easy to accept.

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Date: 02/12/2024
Type: Feature

Claire Keegan on Small Things Like These: 'I wasn’t setting out to write about misogyny or Catholic Ireland'

Claire Keegan discusses the short story that inspired Small Things Like These, the role of restraint in her writing, and why love is at the core of her novel

Type: Feature

Leila Mottley interview: 'There’s never a wrong age to tell the story that is aching inside of you'

With her debut novel longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, Leila Mottley talks about the true story that inspired Nightcrawling, helping young people to start reading again and trying to be a normal teenager

Date: 02/10/2022
Type: Feature

Audrey Magee interview: 'I loved being a journalist, but I was searching for a different truth'

With The Colony longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, Audrey Magee talks about and why her book is more bildungsroman than fable

Date: 24/08/2022
Type: Feature

Selby Wynn Schwartz interview: 'I wreathed together lives that touched each other in some way'

With After Sappho longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, Selby Wynn Schwartz talks about the influence of Virginia Woolf, her writing and reading ravenously

Date: 24/08/2022
Type: Feature

Maddie Mortimer interview: 'When I read the final 20 pages to my family, we all cried'

We spoke to Maddie Mortimer about Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies and the playfulness of poetry, her mother’s diaries and finding inspiration in movies