Children's author Philip Pullman, an advocate of tomorrow's World Book Night, tells Alison Roberts why he is such a vehement opponent of library cuts... more
Monica Ali's blockbuster debut Brick Lane turned her into an overnight sensation and upset the Bangladeshi elders in the East End community she portrayed... more
His first novel about a terror attack came out on 7/7. Chris Cleave’s new book, The Other Hand, has sold 100,000 in eight weeks and Nicole Kidman wants the film rights... more
Brick Lane remains a frequently moving portrait of a family with a right to their own personal history without having to "represent" an entire community or a moment in British social history.... more
Howard Brenton shocked us in the Eighties, but then he fell out of favour. Now the provocative playwright is back. He talks to Fiona Maddocks about his new comedy on extremism.... more
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