'[A] good novel is a good novel, whatever its subject. Personally, my central aim as a writer is to tell the truth, and to tell the truth you have to know your subject like the back of your hand.'
Rachel Cusk is the author of six novels, including Arlington Park, which has been shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize. Arlington Park follows five women from a typical English suburb, as they travel through a typical day. To coincide with publication we asked Rachel to explain the themes of the book, and the role of autobiography in fiction.
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Rachel Cusk is the author of six novels, including Arlington Park, which has been shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize. Arlington Park follows five women from a typical English suburb, as they travel through a typical day. To coincide with publication we asked Rachel to explain the themes of the book, and the role of autobiography in fiction.
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Joseph Connolly's tenth novel Jack the Lad and Bloody Mary is set in London during the Second World War, and once again demonstrates the author's great gift for characterisation. Connolly popped into Faber recently to give us a preview of what to expect.
Joanna Kavenna's new novel Inglorious is for anyone who has ever lived in a city and worked for a living, and wondered what they were doing with their lives. What if you stepped off the treadmill and left the daily grind? It's all about taking risks, and embarking on a new, perhaps epic, journey - as Joanna Kavenna explains.
Erica Wagner is well-known as the Literary Editor of The Times, and is the author of Ariel's Gift (Faber) and the short-story collection Gravity (Granta). Her first novel is Seizure, which Faber published in April 2007. For a brief (and lighthearted) intro to the author keep reading. [more]
With books on Keats and Philip Larkin Poet Laureate Andrew Motion demonstrated the skills of a great biographer. Now, with his memoir In the Blood, he turns his attention to his own life, recollecting post-war England and an idyllic childhood brought tragically to a halt. Watch him read an extract here.
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