Blogs
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Anouchka Grose's Blog
This is the blog of Anouchka Grose, psychoanalyst and author of No More Silly Love Songs: A Realist's Guide to Romance.
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Carol Taaffe's blog
This is the occasional blog of Carol Taaffe, author of Ireland Through the Looking-Glass: Flann O'Brien, Myles Na GCopaleen and Irish Cultural Debate which is published by Cork University Press.
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Cassandra, our agony aunt
This is the advice column by Cassandra, our pessimistic sage. As told to Ariel Leve.
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Catherine Hall's Blog
This is the blog of Catherine Hall, author of Days of Grace.
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Charlie English's blog
This is the blog of Charlie English, author of The Snow Tourist.
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Confessions of a Vampire Hunter: Kevin Jackson's Blog
This is the blog of Kevin Jackson, whose childhood ambition was to be a vampire (“you’d get to live in a castle – how cool is that!”) but instead he became the last living polymath. His colossal expertise ranges from Seneca to Sugababes. He is the author of numerous books on numerous subjects, including Fast: Feasting on the Streets of London (Portobello 2006), and reviews regularly for the Sunday Times
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CS Richardson's blog
This is the blog of CS Richardson, author of great flair and book designer extraordinaire.
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Derek Johns' blog
This is the occasional blog of Derek Johns who has been a bookseller, an editor and a publisher and now works at a literary agency.
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Ed Hollis' Blog
This is the blog of Ed Hollis', author of The Secret Lives of Buildings which has been longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.
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Gazmend Kapllani's blog
This is the occasional blog of Gazmend Kapllani, author of The Short Order Handbook.
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Gina Ochsner's blog
Gina has been compared to Raymond Carver and has received acclaim for her collection of short stories People I Wanted To Be and her Orange Prize longlisted debut novel, The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight. This is her occasional blog.
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Hannah Marshall's blog
This the blog of Hannah Marshall, our French correspondent. Hannah is a former books publicist extraordinaire and is now a freelance writer in Nice. She will be reporting on all aspects of freelance life and French literary matters.
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Harvey A.Leve's blog
This is the blog of Harvey A. Leve, father of author Ariel Leve and a confirmed optimist.
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Jeremy Leggett's blog
This is the blog of Jeremy Leggett, who is now a green-energy entrepreneur and writer who worked for more than a decade as a geologist consulting to the oil industry.
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Jo Baker's blog
This is the blog of Jo Baker, author of The Telling.
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Joe Bageant's Blog
This is the blog of the writer Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting With Jesus.
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Laura Barber's blog
This is the occasional blog of Laura Barber, Portobello Books' Editorial Director.
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Nasrin Alavi's blog
This is the blog of Nasrin Alavi, author of We Are Iran.
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Ollie Brock's blog
This is the blog of Ollie Brock, a freelance writer.
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On Swearing
This is the blog of Peter Silverton, author of Filthy English.
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Paul Kingsnorth's blog
This is the blog of Paul Kingsnorth, author of Real England and co founder of The Dark Mountain Project.
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Piers Bizony's blog
This is the blog of Piers Bizony, author of How To Build A Spaceship. Here he explores the culture of space and science.
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Reina James' blog
This is the occasional blog of Reina James, author of the prize-winning This Time of Dying. The Old Joke, her second novel, was published in April 2008.
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Rose George's blog
This is the occasional blog of Rose George, freelance journalist and author of The Big Necessity.
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Short story exclusive
This is a short story from one of our favourite authors, Véronique Ovaldé, which is featured exclusively on the website.
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Tiffany Murray's Blog
This is the blog of Tiffany Murray, whose latest novel Diamond Star Halo was published in January 2010. Her first, Happy Accidents was short-listed for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.
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Web Mistress
This is the blog of our Web Mistress, Alex Peake-Tomkinson.
