Storytellers tell us their own stories.
Emily Perkins
Award-winning New Zealand writer Emily Perkins chats about the process of writing, what makes good writing and the value of fiction.
Jeffrey Eugenides
The financial precariousness of life in America haunts writer and creative writing professor Jeffrey Eugenides and runs right through his new short story collection Fresh Complaint.
Cressida Cowell
The English writer of the wildly popular How to Train Your Dragon books approached her latest children's book with some nervousness – but an important message to impart.
Richard Flanagan
Now more than ever we need the truths inherent in novels and the privacy and subversion of reading, says Australian writer Richard Flanagan.
Charlotte Wood
Australian writer Charlotte Wood's latest book The Natural Way of Things was inspired by the hidden history of one of Australia's most notorious state institutions.
Ian Rankin
The award-winning Scottish author and TV writer is best known for his best-selling Rebus series, which have been translated into 22 languages.
Chris Kraus
Kraus's 1997 book I Love Dick (a semi-fictional memoir which explores her obsession with an English critic called Dick) is now a television series starring Kevin Bacon.
Peter Carey
The New York-based Australian writer tackles the fraught and shameful parts of Australia's Aboriginal history in his latest novel A Long Way From Home.
David Walliams
The UK actor and comedian has just released his tenth kids' book – Bad Dad.
Danielle Hawkins
The Pretty Delicious Cafe is the latest novel from King Country farmer, vet, wife, mother and rural romance author Danielle Hawkins.
