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A former bookseller and editor, Stuart Evers is the acclaimed author of Ten Stories About Smoking, which won the 2011 London Book Award. He lives in London.

Stuart Evers talks to editor Kate Harvey about his novel If This is Home

Posted By Kate Harvey on Monday 6th May 2013

For Stuart Evers, it's the everyday life of everyday people that really fascinates him. To find out more about his favourite characters, how he writes and who his main influences are.

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18th December: Picador's favourite parties

Posted By Rosanna Boscawen on Tuesday 18th Dec 2012

This year we published Suzette Field's A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Literature. Parties are at the heart of literature, they're where the drama happens; this book is a compendium of who was there, what they wore, what was eaten and who said what to whom. In tribute to all the festivities in the book, we've asked our authors to tell us a little about their best parties, real and fictional.

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16th December: Stuart Evers's books of the year, and other things

Posted By Rosanna Boscawen on Sunday 16th Dec 2012

Stuart Evers is the author of the highly acclaimed novel If This Is Home. It's about Mark Wilkinson, a man who has three names. He left his own behind in the rainy north of England. American immigration knows him as Joe Novak. And at the Valhalla, the mysterious complex where he sells lofty ambition and dark desires, he goes by Mr Jones.

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