I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41..

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare ligh….

I took one glance at her in that hospital bed under the dull light and recognised the look on her face, which I'd seen on donors often enough before.….

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values i….

I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journal….

It is not what you do. It is that you do..

Graved inside of it, "Italy"..

I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites. But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I'd read it while I ate my….

The Rebecca Riots by David Williams is an unassuming book, but its significance is universal. The book and its author determined my life; they made m….

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Kar….

I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies!.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual..

From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the o….

In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth; from books come forth the ….

TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the first page and doesn’t let g….

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth..

When it's your time, it is your time..

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that mak….

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way ….

The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect..

Whatever you are, always be a good one..