Have you ever read a book which moved you so profoundly that you felt, because of it, your own writing would never be the same again? In the last year,...

Now and again, you stumble across a book that touches you, and stays hovering in your thoughts, long after you’ve finished it.  While I could safely go through hundreds of...

Like lots of people, I always wanted to write. When I was a teenager, I wrote all the time. I kept a diary; I loved composing school essays; I scribbled...

Pure panic inspired my new novel, The Playground. I had attempted to write another novel, the second of a two book deal with Quercus, and it hadn’t worked out. During...

Every time I write a novel, I gather objects around me that are relevant to the book. They go into the wine-box shelf above my desk and I like to...

Jeffrey Archer was on TV the other night talking about writing a book and said ‘you need a good run at it.’ He said you need an unbroken slab of...

I have just written and published my first book. I’m rather pleased with it. In the five years I’ve carried it from conception to actual papery birth it has come...

In 2002, I was the stage manager of a theatrical adaptation of John Banville’s The Book of Evidence. I had read and loved the book before but now I got...

Tom Stacey was born from a mumble. One moment my thoughts were on the unremarkable and the next instant he was there, in my head, hunched over and eavesdropping on...

I recently had a chance to sit down with award winning author Glenn Patterson, ahead of the launch of his new novel The Rest Just Follows. But before I asked...