Alex Clark

The author on her new novel, The Wren, The Wren, pretending to be a poet and the ‘male nastiness’ Sally Rooney encountered

Ann-Marie MacDonald’s period-detail-filled novel explores how borders both protect and suppress

Her latest novel, The Ghost Ship, was inspired by stories of powerful but sidelined women in history including Anne Bonny, Mary Read and Gráinne O’Malley

In Kairos, her new novel, Jenny Erpenbeck sets out to capture how it really felt to grow up in East Germany

Writer on learning to read, reluctance to retire and his latest novel Old God’s Time about the scars of childhood abuse

At 87, with more than 50 books to his name, the author is not a man to take things slowly, and the chat comes quick and fast

Shuggie Bain author discusses his new novel, performative masculinity and trying to fit in

Interesting questions arise from a focus on the family of Lincoln’s assassin

Rosemary Hennigan’s tale of aspiring actor explores ethics of drama but needs tighter focus

Complicated ethics of the pandemic underpin UCD professor’s new novel, The Fell

The author’s Booker-shortlisted novel gives a palpable sense of the nation’s political and social realities

Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See, talks about winning the Pulitzer, environmental activism and his new book Cloud Cuckoo Land

Backlash to the author's recent young-adult book inspired a new novel about social media

Lost Children Archive writer on foundation myths, child incarceration and a sonic essay

The TV presenter on his third novel, life in west Cork and his pandemic talk show