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Patricia Lockwood looking at camera while holding her book No One Is Talking About This.
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Patricia Lockwood Q&A

Patricia Lockwood speaks about the Booker Prize-longlisted No One is Talking About This, and her inspiration behind the novel

Richard Powers author of Bewilderment

‘I’ve just updated the fable for the age of pandemics, exoplanets, and mass extinction’

Nadifa Mohamed author of The Fortune Men

‘I knew I wanted to make the line between fact and fiction imperceptible’

Maggie Shipstead author of Great Circle

‘I’m sadly incapable of planning my books. I just have to leap and then hope I’m able to resolve all the problems.’

Damon Galgut author of The Promise

‘In film, the point-of-view jumps and changes all the time - why not in a novel?’

Karen Jennings
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Karen Jennings Q&A

‘The best approach for me would be to simplify the story as far as possible, much as one might see done in a poem’

Anuk Arudpragasam

‘I view each book I write as a kind of apprenticeship to writers I want to emulate’

Rachel Cusk

‘I liked the idea of the book being somehow spoken, as to a friend’

Nathan Harris
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Nathan Harris Q&A

‘I wanted to do justice to the characters I had in my head’

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo book cover
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