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Here you will find high quality audio, and occasionally video, interviews with authors, playwrights and cultural movers and shakers.

In these intimate one-to-one encounters, we hear “from the horse’s mouth” not just about the work in question but any other interesting projects on the horizon. Look out for other notable interviews on other pages as well.


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Charles Boyle

24 for 3 is a delightful novella about a woman trying to come to grips with her marriage, her stepson, her affair and most baffling of all….. the latest in the cricket test match.


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Mohammed Hanif

In a stunning satirical first novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Mohammed Hanif explains to Anna Horsbrugh-Porter how he could get away with poking fun at General Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan.

A Case of Exploding Mangoes is included on the Man Booker Long List for the 2008 prize for fiction. The shortlist will be announced on 9th September and the prize will be awarded on 14th October 2008.


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Patrick McGrath

Video interview in which Patrick McGrath discusses his latest novel Trauma with Nicola Barranger.

Patrick McGrath tells The Interview Online how the aftermath of events of September 11th 2001 inspired him to create the character of a psychiatrist who needed to look into his own family life as he attempted to help a returning Vietnam Veteran at the end of the 1970s.

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Kate Summerscale

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, the Murder at Road Hill House. In an elegant house in England in the mid 19th Century a three year old boy is murdered.


Winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson prize for Non-Fiction

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