Life on the fringes Claire Fuller talks to Neil about her 2021 Women's Prize shortlisted fourth novel Unsettled Ground.

Dr Jo Marchant is an award-winning science journalist. She has a PhD in genetics and medical microbiology from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London, and an MSc in Science Communication ...

A rapid downward spiral Neil talks to Lisa Harding about her novel Bright Burning Things, which is just out in paperback.

First, we should address the title of Hari Kunzru’s new novel White Tears. Anyone who’s been following the part political, part generational culture wars that have played out online and on campuses ...

Sisters fighting for survival Neil talks to Rebecca Stott about her post-Roman Londinium set novel Dark Earth.

The last rock novel Jeff Jackson is the author of Mira Corpora, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Vice, and The Collagist, and five of his ...

Exploring another LA Ivy Pochoda is a novelist and writer, previously a world ranked squash player. Her novel Visitation Street was chosen as an Amazon Best Book of 2013 and a Barnes & Noble Discover ...

Magic realism in East Belfast Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published in 2014 to critical acclaim, followed by ...

Little Atoms In the particle of me that cares for this, I betrayed those little atoms with a kiss @littleatoms ...

Finding your voice Richard Skinner is a novelist, poet and critic. His most recent book, The Mirror, was described as ‘beautifully written . . . immersive . . . captivating’ by the Guardian. As ...

The new western Téa Obreht is the author of The Tiger's Wife, winner of the Orange Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, and her latest novel is Inland. She was born in Belgrade, in the ...

Futurists like Marinetti and D’Annunzio revelled in the destructive energy of battle, but in Weimar Germany after world war 1, artists such as Otto Dix and Hans Fallada documented the horror of ...