Books Interviews

Owen Sheers: The blue-eyed boy and bard

Published: 09 December 2005

Owen Sheers writes poetry infused with the landscape of his native Wales. Lisa Gee talks to the former rugby player about farming, familiarity and form

Frank McCourt: Battles of a class warrior

Published: 25 November 2005

Irish poverty behind him, Frank McCourt found life almost as tough when he taught in New York schools. John Freeman talks to the bestselling memoirist

Elias Khoury: Myth and memory in the Middle East

Published: 18 November 2005

Lebanese writer Elias Khoury is one of the leading lights of Arab literature. Guy Mannes-Abbott meets him

Paul McCartney: A collaborative crusade

Published: 11 November 2005

His latest quest for creative challenges is an ecological fable for children

David Almond: Frankenstein goes to Tyneside

Published: 06 November 2005

David Almond drew on monster myths for his new children's novel. But his northern roots were crucial too, he tells Benedicte Page

Alan Moore: Could it be magic?

Published: 04 November 2005

Hollywood may love Alan Moore, but the cult graphic novelist sets his artistic sights higher. Roz Kaveney talks to him about Kabbala, comics and consciousness

Arnold Wesker: 'Beautiful rape' doesn't exist

Published: 03 November 2005

The heroine in Arnold Wesker's new book has an orgasm while being attacked. But the author insists he is no misogynist

Margaret Atwood: A personal odyssey and how she rewrote Homer

Published: 28 October 2005

Odysseus we know - but who was Penelope? And who better to put flesh on that ghostly presence than Margaret Atwood? The novelist talks to Boyd Tonkin

Madhur Jaffrey: A taste of history

Published: 21 October 2005

Madhur Jaffrey, iconic actress and the writer who brought Asian food into millions of homes, has revisited her Indian childhood. Maya Jaggi meets her in Manhattan

Simon Winchester: On earth, wind and fire

Published: 14 October 2005

Simon Winchester explores the great California quake just as fresh disasters have again made us reflect on natural - or supernatural - power. John Freeman meets him

Bret Easton Ellis: Psycho? American sweetie, more like

Published: 09 October 2005

Despatched to the Savoy Hotel to meet Bret Easton Ellis, Tim Martin was expecting a slick, powersuited cynic - just like a character from one of those infamous Eighties novels. So who's the polite, charming guy in the stained bathrobe?

Joanne Harris: From chocolat to cabbage

Published: 07 October 2005

Joanne Harris returns to her native county as she explores the secrets and spies of a very English school. Marianne Brace meets Yorkshire's best-loved Frenchwoman

Michael Burleigh: Our heavenly leader, hallowed be thy name

Published: 02 October 2005

Historian Michael Burleigh won the Samuel Johnson prize for 'The Third Reich' - but still thinks we're all too fixated on the Nazis. Mark Bostridge meets him to discuss his latest work, an examination of the way politics has co-opted religion to create poisonous creeds

Geoffrey Robertson: Brief encounter

Published: 30 September 2005

After his headline-grabbing cases and human-rights advocacy, Geoffrey Robertson now defends a revolutionary lawyer who killed a king. Robert Hanks meets him

John Berendt: We have lift-off at the Palazzo Barbaro

Published: 25 September 2005

He immortalised Savannah in 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'. So which city was next for the treatment? Suzi Feay travels to La Serenissima to meet him and uncover some of its secrets

Fay Weldon: The time of her life

Published: 23 September 2005

Laughter and tears, science and superstition, fact and fiction still mingle magically in Fay Weldon's work - and life. Susan Jeffreys meets the irrepressible she-devil

Iain Sinclair: Bard of graffiti and broken bottles

Published: 18 September 2005

Iain Sinclair's latest book takes him to Essex in the footsteps of John Clare. Murrough O'Brien finds out why

Vikram Seth: In the teeth of tyranny

Published: 16 September 2005

Germany, India and England meet in Vikram Seth's astonishing family memoir. Matthew J Reisz talks to him about the mysteries of marriage and of history

Salman Rushdie: Paradise postponed

Published: 09 September 2005

Rushdie's new novel is set in the beautiful but ravaged Kashmir, once home to his peace-loving grandfather. He tells Boyd Tonkin how few parts of the world are immune to violent extremism

Simon Schama: Over the rainbow

Published: 02 September 2005

After two decades of US success, Simon Schama repays his hosts with a book about the slaves who chose British freedom. Boyd Tonkin meets the prince of paradox

Peter Ackroyd: 'You've lowered the tone - raise it immediately!'

Published: 28 August 2005

Prickly Peter Ackroyd can be a difficult man to pin down. But as his latest mammoth book, a biography of Shakespeare, is published, Tim Martin finds him uncharacteristically keen to talk about his life and work

Edmund White: A boy's real story

Published: 26 August 2005

Edmund White, genial godfather of gay fiction, has written a memoir that trumps even his novels in its searing frankness. JOHN FREEMAN meets him in Manhattan

Maggie Gee: How clean is your world?

Published: 19 August 2005

After her prophetic novel of London destroyed, Maggie Gee has written a satire on ethnic cleansing - in the middle-class household. Judith Palmer talks to her

Boris Akunin: The riddler of Russia

Published: 12 August 2005

Boris Akunin's tsarist-era whodunits have delighted readers across the world. Jane Jakeman talks to him about the mysteries of Moscow, past and present

Elizabeth Knox: Fantasy - the way to deal with terror

Published: 07 August 2005

The novelist tells James Urquhart about her move into the children's market

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