By Bloomsbury on February 13, 2012
Use these questions to lead conversation in your reading group’s discussion of ‘Pigeon English’, the story of a young boy who immigrated from Ghana to London, and launches an investigation in the death of a boy in his neighbourhood.
Posted in Contemporary Fiction, Fiction | Tagged gangs, Ghana, Immigrant, London, reading groups
By Bloomsbury on February 1, 2012
Bloomsbury brings ‘Pigeon English’ by Stephen Kelman. Read an extract here of the story of Hari, who recently immigrated to London from Ghana with his mother and sister, as he settles into his new life and finds himself drawing the wrong sort of attention when he begins his own investigation of the murder of another boy in his neighbourhood.
Posted in Contemporary Fiction, Fiction | Tagged gangs, Ghana, Immigrant, London
By Headline on February 9, 2011
Maggie O’Farrell talks about the role of London in her prize-winning novel.
Posted in Contemporary Fiction, Fiction | Tagged London
By Gallic Books on February 3, 2011
As the saccharine festival of Valentines rolls around again, with its trail of satin hearts in tow, we ask why does love make us so happy but also so miserable? Do love and happiness in fact go together? And could there really be a secret formula for love?
Posted in Contemporary Fiction, Fiction | Tagged clerkenwell tales bookshop, events, Francois Lelord, Hector and the Secrets of Love, London, love
By Faber on November 14, 2010
Joanna Kavenna talks about her Orange Prize-winning novel Inglorious, discussing the mock-epic, female protagonists, and escaping the London grind.
Posted in Contemporary Fiction, Fiction | Tagged Heroines, London, Orange Prize
By John Murray on August 12, 2009
Sam Delaney takes a humourous look at the pros and cons of raising a child in London.
Posted in Non-fiction, Parenting | Tagged Articles, fatherhood, London
By Faber on August 4, 2009
Sarah Hall’s How to Paint a Dead Man, her fourth novel, is one of the thirteen books longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize. She talks to George Miller about the process of creating her latest work.
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Posted in Fiction, General and literary | Tagged art, Audio, disability, Interviews, London, loss, Podularity, supernatural
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