Emma Buckley

The Book Swap Interview – Steven Appleby

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Steven Appleby is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Britain. His work first appeared in the NME with the Captain Star comic strip, and other comic strips have since appeared in The Times, Sunday Telegraph and the Guardian. His work has also appeared on album covers. What made you realise you are a writer? When [...]

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The Book Swap Interview – DJ Connell

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Born in New Zealand and now living in London, DJ Connell is the author of Sherry Cracker Gets Nomal and Julian Corkle is a Filthy Liar. What made you realise you are a writer? I started late as a novelist. I didn’t come from a background where reading or writing were encouraged. What I did [...]

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The Book Swap Interview – Jonathan Pinnock

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I love the fact that you can play with stuff without feeling you’re committed to a long-term relationship. So you can try out new things, like writing a piece in the second person, or the future tense or whatever.

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The Book Swap Interview – John Harding

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I’ve always talked to myself inside my head and it came as a surprise a few years ago when I discovered that some other people didn’t. I have my own private language and catchphrases, and I assumed everyone did.

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The Book Swap Interview – Isabel Losada

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There are always a lot of good and excellent things to consider – art, music, literature, people who are inspiring. Lots to celebrate. And I think often of a man I miss. But I’m not mentioning him. Obviously.

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The Book Swap Interview – Jonathan Lee

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It’s coming to something when quitting, an impulse that’s usually considered destructive, gets wheeled out as a man’s greatest achievement but leaving behind my safe, nicely paid job that I’d trained to do for years was difficult. I’m someone who likes an element of routine, of safety and familiarity, and backing myself to write a novel – when in truth I had no good reason to believe I could write a publishable one – required a leap of faith.

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The Book Swap Interview – Steven Hall

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In terms of memory and identity, a big thing I wanted to explore in the book was – if we lose the people closest to us, if we lose the people who show us who we are by reflecting ourselves back to us, then what’s left? Can there even be a self in the same way once they’re gone?

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Sam Baker – The Book Swap Interview

One Day is a brilliant read and I have always been a big champion of it, but I 100% believe that if it had been written by a woman it would have had a pink cover…

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The Book Swap Interview – Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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The simplest way to introduce strange things that people already believe to be true is simply to make them true.

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Essie Fox – The Book Swap Interview

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But what I find most exciting about the Victorian era is the fact that it gave us photographs, which means we can really ‘see’ the people who lived back then..

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