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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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Elsewhere

And how while you’re doing what you’re doing now, and while you’re thinking what you’re thinking now there are whole other lives going on in which you are nothing, and whole other places where you are not, and which you will never see, from the home of the man you pass each morning on the way to work furthermost depths of empty space.

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Tamsyn Murray – The Interview

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Celery is what Satan feeds people in Hell and spiders – you mean you don’t know about them? They have enormous fangs and some of them carry guns and, basically, they’re trying to take over the world. I am very scared of them, even the small ones. In fact, often they’re the ones with the biggest teeth.

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Age, Death, Revenge – and Kenny Rogers

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When I was younger, I’d hear all the old people come out with the most extraordinary things – things you aren’t meant even to think these days, much less come out with in polite company. But actually, I’m beginning to see the point of it now. Beginning to see the attraction, as it were.

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Josa Young – The Interview

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I am very glad to be published in the age of the internet. It is no good wondering what would have happened, and what other books I would have written by now, if Victor Gollanz had taken One Apple Tasted in the mid 1990s.

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