Nicola Upson: The Book That…
on Nov 20, 2009 in Articles The Book That What do writers read? Nicola Upson, whose books Angel with Two Faces and An Expert in Murder feature a heroine in the form of Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey, tells us about the books that have made her laugh, cry, kept her awake at night, and...

Independent Bookseller of the Month: Goldsboro Books, London
on Nov 20, 2009 in Articles Bookseller of the Month Every month we feature a different bookshop – we ask them to tell us what makes them special and what they like most about what they do. This month it’s the turn of Goldsboro Books, on Cecil Court in London, just off the famous Charing Cross Road...

Win a signed set of The Victor Legris Mysteries
on Nov 19, 2009 in Articles Competitions Extracts crime and thriller historical fiction Read an extract from Death on the Eiffel Tower and you could win the first three Victor Legris adventures, historical crime fiction set in fin-de-siècle Paris.

Meat Dishes Without Coupons
on Nov 18, 2009 in Video cookery food Podularity war Robert Brown, archivist for Faber, tells George Miller about a resourceful cookery book from 1940 designed to overcome the monotony of a rationed wartime diet. But some of the dishes it describes will be quite shocking to the modern palate!

November Non-fiction Round-up
on Nov 18, 2009 in Genre Round-ups biography and memoir history non-fiction politics and current affairs science and nature travel writing Memoirs, science and not fiction, fleeting meetings and long memories, interviews with writers, writing on art, commentary on the UK as it is now and the changes it's gone through... all these and more are to be found in our November non-fiction list...

Paris Review Interviews vol. 4: an introduction by Salman Rushdie
on Nov 17, 2009 in Articles Extracts language writing Read the new introduction by Salman Rushdie to a volume which makes indispensable reading for all those interested in what makes our greatest writers tick.

Barbara Kingsolver on The Lacuna
on Nov 16, 2009 in Interviews America contemporary fiction historical fiction World War Two Barbara Kingsolver wasn't able to come to the UK for publication of her spellbinding new novel The Lacuna (though she hope to visit in 2010), so Faber did the next best thing - went to her with their questions.

Did the Vikings wear Viking helmets?
on Nov 14, 2009 in Interviews Video history Podularity George Miller talks to Robert Ferguson about his major new history of the Viking age, The Hammer and the Cross, and asks him how much of our image of the Vikings is myth, how much reality (and did they really have horned helmets)?

In praise of Shouting at the Telly
on Nov 13, 2009 in Audio Interviews Podularity TV What does Howards’ Way tell us about the eighties? And if you play the theme from Inspector Gadget in a nightclub, will people dance? George Miller talks to editor John Grindrod about a book that answers all of these questions and more. Listen now...

Oliver Postgate’s Seeing Things: an extract
on Nov 12, 2009 in Extracts biography and memoir TV 'Oliver Postgate was, for my money, the greatest children's storyteller of the last 100 years. Together, the team of Postgate and Peter Firmin were apparently incapable of creating anything less than timelessly wonderful whenever they sat down to wor...