Novelist Joe Abercrombie burst on the British fantasy scene with his trilogy The First Law, a grim and bloody epic of characters equally damaged and damaging. His reputation
Like the characters in his novels, Joe Abercrombie is not a man to be taken lightly. Launching his writing career in 2006 with The Blade Itself, his First
Justin Cronin is an acclaimed writer, and deservedly so: the Harvard graduate is a professor of English at Rice University and an award winning novelist, but recognition of
Moving house is a stressful ordeal, even at the best of times. A forced relocation due to money troubles with two young children in tow where the husband
Jane Rogers is a literary novelist and scriptwriter whose credits include the Somerset Maugham Award, the Writers’ Guild Best Fiction Book, BAFTA nominations and an Arts Council award.
Sublime: noble and majestic; impressive and awe-inspiring. Sublimation: the transition of a substance from the solid phase directly to the vapour state such that it does not pass
It’s not often a debut novel gathers the attention that greeted the launch of The Quantum Thief two years ago, a book that received critical praise despite its
On the sunny afternoon of Monday 20th August, shortly before he was due to take the main stage at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in conversation with Patrick
Having studied mathematics and physics in his native Finland, Cambridge and Edinburgh, Hannu Rajaniemi has been based in that city for several years where he was a founding
Having been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award with his debut novel, 2010’s Boxer, Beetle, Ned Beauman’s followup continues his success with The Teleportation Accident making the
