Evie Wyld: ‘Women are always told to ignore their sixth sense’
The prize-winning novelist on having her drink spiked, repressed female rage and fibbing about her writing routine
Sebastian Barry: ‘Family stories mean a whole different thing in your 60s’
As his sequel to the Costa-winning Days Without End is published, Barry talks about reinventing his ancestry and writing in the voice of a Native American
Intan Paramaditha: ‘We are always haunted by the road not taken’
The Indonesian author’s novel The Wandering allows readers to select their own path - but follows characters whose lives have often been decided for them
Joanna Trollope on families, fiction and feminism: ‘Society still expects women to do all the caring’
The author has sold millions of books, but long faced literary scorn. She discusses her colourful upbringing, why men don’t read her novels – and why we need to stop judging
Jan Morris: ‘You’re talking to someone at the very end of things’
Travel writer and historian Jan Morris has had an extraordinary life. Now, at 93, she’s publishing what may be her last book…
John Carey: ‘In my teens I fancied myself as a poet’
The outspoken critic on his new history of poetry, and why he won’t be going to see the latest film version of Emma
Quentin Blake: ‘Spend time with children? Good God, no’
The writer and illustrator talks about bringing some of the most cherished children’s characters to life, his work with Roald Dahl and Michael Rosen – and the tiny weed that inspired his latest book
Anne Enright: ‘A lot of bad things happen to women in books. Really a lot’
She began a novel about the dark side of Hollywood – and then the Weinstein scandal broke. The Booker-winner on mothers, marriage and misogyny
Oliver Letwin, the unlikely merchant of technological doom
After battling to stop a no-deal Brexit, the ex-MP has written a modern fable, Apocalypse How?, warning of the catastrophe our tech dependence could cause
Graeme Armstrong: ‘When I stopped taking drugs, I felt a kind of loneliness’
The debut novelist on how to write violence, taking the same advice as Irvine Welsh, and his love of Goosebumps
Hilary Mantel: ‘I’ve got quite amused at people saying I have writer’s block. I’ve been like a factory!’
As the long-awaited final volume of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy is published, the twice Booker winner discusses her writing life and why she wants to write a play of her controversial Margaret Thatcher story
Pajtim Statovci: ‘I don’t tell a story to preach’
The award-winning author on the truth about life as a migrant, and other Finnish writers we should be reading
South Korean author Cho Nam-joo: ‘My book is braver than I am’
The former screenwriter on how her novel addressing gender inequality became a bestseller in South Korea
Christiana Figueres on the climate emergency: ‘This is the decade and we are the generation’
The leader of the 2015 Paris accord talks about her new book, The Future We Choose, and why it’s crunch time for humanity
‘I knew he was loved but not the scale of it’: Katie Barlow on her late husband Jeremy Hardy
As a book of tributes to the brilliant comedian and activist is published, his wife talks about their life together – and life without him