Exploring Memory: An Interview with Davina Quinlivan

Davina Quinlivan is a British writer and lecturer. Her book Shalimar: A Story of Place and Migration is a mix of memoir, travel and nature writing. Davina is a lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter, and Writer in Residence with Literature Works/Quay Words and the Royal Devon …

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Following Unusual Paths: Interview with Nick Hunt

Nick Hunt is an author from the UK. His books include Outlandish; Where the Wild Winds Are; Walking the Woods and the Water; The Parakeeting of London; and Loss Soup and Other Stories. His debut novel Red Smoking Mirror will be published in July 2023. Walking the Woods and the Water and Where the Wild …

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Travelling Back in Time: An Interview with David Liss

David Liss is an American author. His novels include A Conspiracy of Paper, The Coffee Trader, The Devil’s Company and The Peculiarities. Most of David’s books are historical fiction, set in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 2001, A Conspiracy of Paper (the first of the Benjamin Weaver series) won the Macavity Award for the …

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Exploring Remote Regions: An Interview with Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent

Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent is a British travel writer, broadcaster and public speaker. Photo: Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent Her books include Land of the Dawn-lit Mountain: A Journey Across India’s Forgotten Frontier, which was a runner-up in the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards; A Short Ride in the Jungle: The Ho Chi Minh Trail by Motorcycle; and Tuk Tuk to the …

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Raising Issues of Domestic Violence: An Interview with Cherie Jones

Photo: BrooksLaTouche Photography, Barbados. Cherie Jones is a Barbadian author and attorney. Her novel, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, was shortlisted for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction. She has also written a book of short stories, The Burning Bush Women & Other Stories. Cherie is currently working on her second novel. Talking …

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Integrating Design into the Narrative: An Interview with Rian Hughes

Photo: Steve Cook Rian Hughes is an Eisner-nominated graphic designer, author, illustrator, comic artist and typographer. He has published two novels, XX and The Black Locomotive. He has also written graphic novels, the first of which was The Science Service. Rian has worked for British and American advertising, music and comic book industries, and has …

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The Joys of Train Travel: An Interview with Monisha Rajesh

Monisha Rajesh is a British journalist and travel writer. Her first book, Around India in 80 Trains, was selected by The Independent as one of the top ten books on India in 2012. Monisha’s second book, Around the World in 80 Trains, won the 2020 National Geographic Traveller Book of the Year and was shortlisted …

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Domestic Thrillers and Rural Communities: An Interview with Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Gail Anderson-Dargatz is a Canadian writer. Her first novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, won the UK’s Betty Trask Award, the BC Book Prize for Fiction, and the VanCity Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her other books …

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Bringing the Past to Life: Interview with Boris Dralyuk

Photo: Jennifer Croft Boris Dralyuk is a poet, literary translator, and editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books. His collection of poems, My Hollywood and Other Poems, was published in April 2022. He has also written Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934; edited 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian …

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Putting Women Explorers Back on the Map: Interview with Rosemary J. Brown

Photo: David Stanton Rosemary J. Brown is a journalist based in London and author of Following Nellie Bly: Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World. Rosemary is an avid traveller and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, where she helped organize the first Heritage of Women in Exploration conference. Her articles have appeared in publications including …

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