Web Mistress
Communist keepsakes
The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall reminds Alex Peake-Tomkinson of some shocking lacunae in her knowledge of the Communist bloc.
09:30:00 09/11/09
Hooray for Herta!
Herta Müller, the Nobel laureate, becomes our newest author! We will publish Everything I Possess I Carry With Me in 2011.
18:00:00 05/11/09
Let's celebrate!
Let's celebrate Paul Kingsnorth, author of Real England, the first Portobello author to be profiled in the Sun!
17:00:00 13/07/09
How did Sid James really laugh?
The Web Mistress on Reina James and her novels and her memories of her father, Sid James and his laugh.
18:00:00 08/06/09
Something gained, not lost, in translation for Portobello
Success for Portobello's translated fiction in the Rossica Translation Prize and The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2009.
17:44:00 07/05/09
Champion of England: Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorth, author of Real England, has been nominated as The Champion of England.
17:42:00 08/04/09
Catherine Hall: A Rising Star
Win a free, signed copy of our sleeper hit, Days of Grace, and find out more about its author, Catherine Hall.
17:30:00 01/04/09
Hooray for The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight
Gina Ochsner's debut novel, The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight has been longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009.
15:29:00 18/03/09
Yasmin on the radio
Listen to Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reading her memoir, The Settler's Cookbook, on Radio 4's Book of the Week.
15:04:00 16/03/09
Is your teenager lazy?
Why you need to read David Bainbridge's Teenagers: A User's Guide
01:32:00 13/03/09
