Ilustrado, Imperial Bedrooms, Little Gods, Room, Talk Of The Town, The Great Perhaps, The Ice Age
Anna Richards, Bret Easton Ellis, Emma Donoghue, Jacob Polley, Joe Meno, Kirsten Reed, Miguel Syjuco
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.
A completely hypnotic road trip...You should buy this book immediately
Here are some songs that Gunther listened to on his radio.
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.
Your chance to see Emma Donoghue at her only UK solo appearance: http://bit.ly/bMAfMK
Find out what Emma and her editor said: http://bit.ly/bvdGyi Also, let us know who you think will be on the shortlist!
Congratulations go to Emma Donoghue for her Booker longlisting - brilliant news...
Hello everyone, sorry for the silence the last few days - I've been on holiday and then moved house. Busy. But I'm back now, everything ok?
Emma Donoghue's Room has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the leading literary award in the English-speaking world.
Take a look at the floor plan for Room and get a real feel for the book - click the image for a closer look.
Watch Emma Donoghue reading from her stunning new novel, Room.
Take a sneak peak at an extract from Room.
Emma Donoghue takes you from Anne Lister to the letter Z in this wonderful guide.
Sometimes you publish a book that just seems easy. You love it. Everyone in-house loves it. The people you give it to, or send it to, also love it, whether they're booksellers, authors you're asking... read more >
RT @TheBrandSurgery: The Mad Men Job Interview: Do you have what it takes to be hired by Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce? http://bit.ly/a5SpM2
@Sarah_Crown Glad to see you liked it - it's a stunning collection.
@LizUK You can ask me, then I'll pass it on to the Young Picador team...
@stujallen Not bad, ta. Just prepping the images of Latitude before posting a blog...
Morning everyone - you all alright?
@ajaxlogos Ah, I might have to go and see it iMax - didn't do that last night.
@ajaxlogos iMax?
@ajaxlogos Agree. Absolutley brilliant. Action scenes were tremendous.
RT @litweeter: Lots of votes for Mr Easton Ellis so am editing that one right now, Zizek and Jeanette Winterson up shortly too #llf10
@saltpublishing Thank you very much! We like to think it's fully deserved, it's a beautiful collection.
And also, while I'm at it, take a look at this animation for Imperial Bedrooms - stunning: http://bit.ly/aENzSZ
Rightio - here you are - Picador goes to Latitude: http://bit.ly/a8bA6u
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.
Tory thinks her husband Donald has died in the war, until she receives a letter posted from a German POW camp asking her to write 'a dirty letter by return of post!'
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.
A video of Billy Collins reading his poem, The Lanyard.
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.
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.
