Ilustrado, Imperial Bedrooms, Little Gods, Micka, Nourishment, Room, Talk Of The Town, The Great Perhaps, The Ice Age
Anna Richards, Bret Easton Ellis, Emma Donoghue, Frances Kay, Gerard Woodward, Jacob Polley, Joe Meno, Kirsten Reed, Miguel Syjuco
Line by line it is consistently inventive and witty, and there are great set pieces throughout (the loo scenes are done with particular gusto) . . .The gifts and facilities of a highly original writer are all on display.
Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days.
Ellis...is always interesting...the beautiful one-liners are everywhere...the last line, which I will refrain from quoting, is terrific. It is also oddly satisfying, flattering, almost to see the old Ellis magic applied to the popular culture of our era...Ellis remains a bold ignorer of literary boundaries. Imperial Bedrooms is but another unexpected swerve in a wonderfully weird career.
Brilliantly conceived and stylishly executed, [Ilustrado] covers a large and tumultuous historical period with seemingly effortless skill. It is also ceaselessly entertaining, frequently raunchy, and effervescent with humour.
One of the highlights of Gerard Woodward's Nourishment, has to be the witty, tense and somewhat curt letters sent between Tory and Donald, husband and wife. Tory is home in south east London, while... read more >
Shortly after the outbreak of war, Emily Head, known by everyone, including her late husband Arthur and her daughter Tory, simply as Mrs Head, returned to London after a brief sojourn in the... read more >
I really like 'The Floating Man' by Katherine Towers. Read the Guardian featured poem last month and bought it. Original and beautiful.
Morning all. How's everyone?
@robertjsullivan Thanks for that. (currently rocking another pair in the black cotton series, this time, with grey trim)
I can assure you all that Scott Pilgrim vs The World is a cracker. Go and see it.
Will be entering work into the Picador Poetry Prize very soon!
@RobAroundBooks If it turns out that it's rare and worth a quid or two, I'm coming to find you.
@RobAroundBooks Wow. Long before my time, but it's got some cracking review quotes: http://bit.ly/9AX2WN
@FourthEstateUK Wowzer. Feel free to send some our way as well...book exchange?!
@BenMyers1 I've got your kids Dan, I'VE GOT YOUR KIDS.
@BenMyers1 It's vulcanised rubber which means it won't perish.
@BenMyers1 "Right, dry skin cream. I'm having an attack of the old flakes again. This morning my pillow looked like a flapjack."
Good morning everyone, lovely day today. *Bit chirpy, had a strong coffee.
@BenMyers1 'Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle.'
Very excited about seeing Scott Pilgrim tonight. Very excited indeed.
Anyone who hasn't listened to the Best Coast record is a slacker and needs to get on it right NOW.
@BenMyers1 We should start a Partridge love-in...Tweeting You, Tweeting Me.
Take a sneak peak at Matteo Pericoli's astounding new project, London Unfurled.
Watch a video of Frances Kay talking about her novel, Micka.
Watch Emma Donoghue reading from her stunning new novel, Room.
They had made a movie about us…
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They had made a movie about us. The movie was based on a book written by someone we knew. The book was a simple thing about four weeks in the city we grew up in and for the most part was an accurate... read more >
How do you invent a novel, a famous novelist, and an entire country's imagined literature? Miguel's American publishers asked him that very question.
Miguel Syjuco talks us through the plot of Ilustrado, his debut novel.
Aleksandar Hemon reads 'Everything' from his latest collection of short stories, Love and Obstacles.
Listen to an interview with Jon Ronson where he answers questions about his book The Men Who Stare at Goats.
Listen to Joe Meno reading from The Great Perhaps.
The award-winning poet will be reading from his latest collection, The Wrecking Light, alongside fellow poet Carol Ann Duffy.
Here are some of my sketches and paintings.
The shortlist for regional winners has been unveiled in the race to win the influential 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Love and trauma through a child's eyes...
Haunted by the past...
John Glenday's Writing Workshop at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Emma Donoghue's only solo UK appearance.
Emma Donoghue's Room has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the leading literary award in the English-speaking world.
Come and join us at the Clapham Bookshop to hear Anna Richards read from her debut novel Little Gods...
Jacob Polley, winner of the Somerset Maugham award, has written a piece for Creative Review...
American Psycho Reloaded
Our good friends at Literary Death Match are celebrating Bret Easton Ellis' new novel Imperial Bedrooms with a special themed night on Wednesday 14th July at Concrete.
Bret Easton Ellis discusses Imperial Bedrooms.
Three Picador authors are celebrating after their recent success in the 2010 Authors' Awards...
Talk of the Town by Jacob Polley has been shortlisted for this year's Desmond Elliott Prize.
The Music Room by William Fiennes has made the shortlist for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize 2010.
Blake Bailey's magnificent biography of John Cheever has been shortlisted for the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize.