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I don’t know. I’m part of the Making Sandman team, but I’m no part at all of the Merchandising Sandman team. (I’m not even sure if that’s Warner TV, DC Comics or […]

I can answer all of your questions. But the answers will not make you happy. Either you won’t like them, or you’ll want to know more, or you’ll be impatient, or fr […]

Ten, going on eleven. This was the cover. (Could Ged be any whiter?) And not yet, no – he’s nearly six, and not up for long stories yet.

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Daily Mirror, England, March 8, 1938 

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I don’t think it had an author. We made it ourselves.

A woman quits France for Morocco in 1946 but is soon adrift, in a novel overly indebted to its author’s family backstoryIt’s grim up north – northern Moroc […]

You are not dreaming. I missed a day yesterday. But there is a comic today so don’t worry about it. This scene happened in a game I played. Half the party spotted […]

The author of an acclaimed new book tells how Hitler used works by psychiatric patients in his culture warOn a winter’s day in 1898, a stocky young man with a h […]

This strikingly fresh new collection from a master of the genre addresses mortality head onAfter the mighty success of his 2017 novel, Midwinter Break, the Irish […]

This beautiful snapshot of Antwerp in its 16th-century pomp reveals a city flush with money but with no idea how to spend itAntwerp is the star of this charming […]

Gray Skies, Red Wings, Blue Lips, Black Hearts by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor in Apex Magazine A girl has lost her soul and Redcap Kestrel agrees to get it back. Once she […]

An engaging academic study of Alexei Navalny paints a vivid picture of a Russian politician who is a necessarily courageous product of the internet ageIn January, […]

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Or rather I know what I can do for now, and it isn’t much.For those of you new to the whole thing – I am basically the only high-ranking staff o […]

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I’m working very hard on my latest book CHIVALRY for Neil Gaiman, coming from Dark Horse.I’m running really late. How incredibly fortunate I am to […]

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Alone. Megan E. Freeman. 2021. [January] 404 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: This is my reality.Premise/plot: Maddie thought her idea was brilliant: […]

The novelist on making Philip Larkin his fictional father, why writing has become a battle, and his new work about race in the USMartin Amis, 71, is the author of […]

It’s true. I make up so much less than people think…

The Booker-winning novelist knew when she read the Iliad that she would write about Briseis one dayIn The Human Stain Philip Roth describes the Iliad as the source […]

Most recently portrayed by Dev Patel in The Green Knight, Gawain is Arthurian legend’s most complex character. Director David Lowery and others talk about how t […]

I was half way up a mountain in China in 2008 when I ran into a man selling snow-white honey from a stall. I’d never seen honey that colour before, never have s […]

Science fiction, theology, puzzles and a whole lot of sex … this mammoth novel is one extended stylish flourish that threatens to lose the plotOf the ambition, i […]