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Author Kathy Lette
Kathy Lette on The Revenge Club

“If you can laugh at something, it takes the sting out of it. And women are so funny”

The best thing about revenge is that it’s sweet, but totally non-fattening. Maybe that’s why women are drawn to it? And sadly, we have a lot to want to avenge! Regrettably, women are still runners up…

Mar 07 2024
Gurinder Kaur Hatchard on Hooked on Shakespeare

“Once I’d come up with Woolliam Shakespeare as a pun, it seemed like a no brainer”

I’ve been designing little amigurumi characters for years, usually inspired by film characters that my children loved. A few years ago, I worked very near the Globe Theatre, and I’d always be crocheti…

Feb 14 2024
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Russell Beck on The World of Work to 2030

“I have always been interested in business and ‘the world,’ and the changes within”

That is a good question! I do not think it was any single incident or event that prompted me. Maybe it is how I am wired, but I have always tried to make sense of what is happening and sought to under…

Jan 18 2024
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Brigid Kemmerer on Destroy the Day

“I love discovering new stories in all their varied forms”

Tessa and Corrick – and King Harristan! – are not having an easy time of it in Destroy the Day! At the beginning of the book, they’re all divided for the first time, and they need to work with some re…

Jan 17 2024
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Gourav Mohanty on Sons of Darkness

Sons of Darkness is “just a reflection of the world as it is around us. Disillusioned. Amoral. Dishonest. But somewhere within, a bit of hidden good”

Sons of Darkness is a 'reimagining' of the Mahabharata. Why did you decide to base your debut on this epic? And how did you find the experience of basing your novel on something that already exists?  …

Jan 08 2024
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Dalal Mawad on All She Lost

“Women were the best storytellers, maybe because they rarely have a platform to talk”

When I started reporting on the explosion and its aftermath in 2020 for AP, a lot of women came forward. They had powerful stories and always opened up to me. They were looking for a safe space and tr…

Dec 08 2023
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Leanne Mair on Closing the Gap

“One of the biggest obstacles that Black women face is the expectation that they should solve the challenges they face”

In context of the book, one of the biggest obstacles that Black women face is the expectation that they should solve the challenges they face. Many organisations are still unwilling to interrogate the…

Oct 09 2023
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Emery Lord on All That's Left to Say

“I delighted in writing spiky banter, the magic of live music and a particular party scene”

Emery Lord. Cincinnatian. Art museum adventurer, bookstore wanderer, enthusiastic diner no matter the cuisine. Author of six contemporary YA novels, including The Start of Me & You and When We Col…

Jul 21 2023
Author, Anjum Hasan
Anjum Hasan on History's Angel

“It’s important to remember that none of us are either victims or oppressors in the comic book sense”

We live in a very politically charged time in India, when a lot of the debate is to do with whether the secular and inclusive inheritance of the country is coming undone. I wanted to write a novel abo…

Jul 11 2023
Authors Ian Goldin And Tom Lee Devlin
Ian Goldin And Tom Lee Devlin on Age of the City

“Individuals have an essential role to play in creating better, fairer and more sustainable cities”

IAN: I have been thinking about the relationship between economic progress and economic geography for many years. I have been struck by how place has become even more important over recent decades, wi…

Jun 22 2023
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Kalynn Bayron on You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

“My hope is that readers get lost in the adventure for a little while”

I was mostly inspired by the slasher films of the 70's, 80's and 90's--Friday the 13th and Sleepaway Camp specifically. I grew up on horror movies and I wanted to write a book that felt just like that…

Jun 14 2023
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Olivia Wolfgang-Smith on Glassworks

“Glass is a pretty miraculous substance, malleable yet eternal”

Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka were a father-and-son team of Czech glass artisans who worked in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, making costume jewelry, laboratory equipment, glass eyes…

May 16 2023

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