Authors & Events
Q&A with Lessons in Chemistry Author Bonnie Garmus
14 April 2022
Bonnie Garmus is the author of Lessons in Chemistry, a story of hope
and staying true to yourself with an iconic heroine, the unconventional, uncompromising Chemist, Elizabeth Zott. Bonnies chats here about
her own involvement in science, the whooshing sound a boat makes
and the women she admires.
ON DOGS IN BOOKS
I...
Q&A with When We Were Birds Author Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
16 March 2022
When We Were Birds is a gorgeously immersive, mesmerising and life-affirming literary debut – a love story and a ghost story set in modern-day Trinidad. In this Q&A, author Ayanna Lloyd Banwo chats about creating fictionalised places, the book that had the most profound influence on her and being invisible.
The sense...
Marian Keyes on Writing
10 February 2022
Marian Keyes’ writing is warm, witty and fearlessly honest with characters and relationships that are so relatable, we see them in ourselves, our friends and our own family. Sheer storytelling magic. But with 15 novels (and her long-anticipated sequel to Rachel's Holiday - Again, Rachel - is out now!), how does she seem to just...
Q&A with The Man Who Never Was Author Douglas Kruger
09 February 2022
The Man Who Never Was is a moving novel that strikes to the heart of parents. In this Q&A, author Douglas Kruger chats about making the move from finance- to fiction writing, where he got the idea for the novel and a parent’s sacrifice.
Many people know you as a prolific writer of books on finance. Did you always know...
Q&A with Wahala Author Nikki May
09 February 2022
Wahala is a darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on love, race and family, through the experiences of three mixed-race friends living in London. In this Q&A, author Nikki May chats about expectations on today’s women, embracing her culture as an Anglo-Nigerian, and Ife heads.
Which scene was hardest to write, and...
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