Is DI Ryan Wilkins the new Morse? Simon Mason on crime writing, the Oxford...
Author Simon Mason doesn't watch TV or go to the cinema, hasn't watched Lewis or Endeavour and is unaware of JK Rowling's Cormorant Strike.
And yet his new...
‘I still love sitting at my kitchen table making stuff up’ Crime writer Ann...
Ann Cleeves is chatting to me from her kitchen table in Northumberland's Whitley Bay where she writes her famous novels Vera, Shetland and more recently The Long...
Famous author and former junior doctor Joanna Cannon comes clean in new book Breaking...
“I had to go through things to have something to say. You need a well to draw from as a writer, and apart from being a junior...
“I wrote in a visceral rage” Bestselling author Meg Mason in Oxford to talk...
Anyone who has read Sorrow and Bliss will understand the excitement surrounding author Meg Mason's visit to Oxford to talk about her global bestseller.
Because not only has...
“Fiction is a very powerful tool.” Famous writers Patrick Gale and David Constantine on...
“The first time I did one of these was especially poignant because my subject was sat there in the front row, which moved me to tears.”
When author...
From the Blitz to the swinging 60s: Fashion’s Audrey Withers is back in vogue...
"Behind a honey-coloured stone wall at the bottom of the Woodstock Road stands Somerville College. Its buildings are lovely but its archives are what interest me as...
Oxford’s Cara Hunter talks about new novel ‘All The Rage’, taking the crime world...
The phrase 'page-turner' doesn't seem to do Cara's book credit, 'sleep depriver' does. Put it another way, I finished reading All The Rage at 4am.
Can wolves be reintroduced in the UK? Conservationist and ‘guerilla rewilder’ Derek Gow’s fight...
Hunt for the Shadow Wolf was a labour of love for Derek Gow. Because the farmer, nature conservationist and author, who has already helped reintroduce the beaver, water vole...
‘We’re on a mission!’ We talk to famous chef, restaurateur and foodie Yotam Ottolenghi...
"It was really weird being at home so much because I usually spend a lot of time travelling and attending events, but like everything else in this...
The legendary Nigel Slater talks lists, recipes, inspiration, hindsight and revelation as Toast comes...
Nigel Slater loves writing lists, has done since he was a child. As a boy he would write down his father’s breakfast menu and present it to...
