If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? You can also add us to your Google Reader. Thanks for visiting!     On Monday I popped along to the Wheeler Centre to see Barcelona-born, LA-based author Carlos Ruiz Zafón in conversation with local writer and broadcaster Sian Prior. As usual, I went bearing pen and...

  Irish author Ciara Geraghty’s latest novel Lifesaving for Beginners involves a reclusive thriller author who refuses all media appearances and gets about in a clandestine manner worthy of MI5. The contrast between Ciara and her fictional creation couldn’t be more striking: Ciara’s voice lilts warmly down the telephone line as she tells...

Having worked in publishing, debut author Steven Lochran knows quite a few people in the publishing industry who have a half-written manuscript sitting in their bottom drawer. “It’d be very unusual to work in publishing and not have a love of books and writing. And with that love often comes an ambition to write a book yourself.” This was certainly the...