More, now, again

The biggest story in publishing in the week that I am writing this – by far – is the furore over the authenticity or lack of it of The Salt Path. There are reports of legal cases being prepared, so I

The first time I encountered the term ‘sex ...

Sebastian Faulks was a student when a terrifying episode “severed” his link with reality – an experience that has fuelled his mission to understand psychosis and schizophrenia

Ian McEwan is strolling through the garden of his Cotswolds manor house. Bees waft drowsily between wildflowers. Plump apples, pears and walnuts bauble the trees. Vibrant cerulean-blue damselflies hov

Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o

A reactionary radical’s case against progress