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Stephen Kelman tells Nicola Barranger about how he got into writing. His first book Pigeon English was nominated for the Man Booker prize in 2011.
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Following the success of her latest book The Long Song Andrea Levy discusses how slavery has been recorded in British history.
Talking to Nicola Barranger in this audio interview Levy points out that since slavery happened mostly across the Atlantic, many schools and universities in the UK would rather ignore the contribution that 300 or so years of slavery have made to British history.
Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2011
The Long Song was shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
In her 16th novel, Family Album Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively paints a delightful picture of family life somewhere (or indeed anywhere) in Britain. Nine people live in a vast house and the children have a shared if (as we discover later) somewhat unorthodox upbringing.
She tells Nicola Barranger why she wanted to write the book
In a separate interview Penelope Lively explains that the art of writing has for her changed over the years.
Talking to Nicola Barranger Patrick Gale explains the thinking behind A Perfectly Good Man and how inspiration came from a news item concerning the parents of a tetraplegic, who helped their son travel to Switzerland in order to commit suicide.
In an extension to the conversation, Patrick Gale explains why he enjoys the challenge of writing about faith in his novels.
Liz Jensen's latest novel is no less disturbing than those for which she has developed her dedicated following. Talking to Nicola Barranger she explains how what started out as a ghost story developed into a stark warning about the future of the planet. Once again a child is once again at the centre of the novel something, in this particular novel children chillingly start to murder family members for no reason and with no remorse. In this interview Liz asks why so few men purchase novels written by women.
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In an audio slideshow interview, Justin Cartwright talks about his book To Heaven by Water..
..explaining that for him, writing is as much about examining the Human Condition as it is about the narrative.