Interviews: February 2013

One of the most successful authors working today, Nicholas Sparks has our hearts and minds. With his tales of love, loss and redemption, he has seen many of his films adapted for film (including The Notebook starring Ryan Gosling). With Safe Haven about to come out, we spoke to Nicholas about his writing process, about adapting his work for film and how he manages to get through 100 books a year.

With her star rising, we thought it was high-time we caught up with Amy Sackville. We talked about Orkney, second novel syndrome and unreliable narrators.

We caught up with Jenn Ashworth to talk about her new novel, The Friday Gospels,Mormonism and the current landscape for young British novelists.

Katie Kitamura's second book, Gone to the Forest, is an elegant and sparse tale of familial fallout to a backdrop of civil war and post-colonial guilt. Katie took some time to talk to us about how she edited the book, her feelings on post-colonialism and what she's most looking forward to reading this year.

We interview James Smythe, writer of things science fiction, computer game and literary-ness. He talks about non-disclosure agreements, genre snobbery and solitude.

Sheila Heti's first book in the UK, How Should a Person Be? comes highly recommended by voice-of-a-generation du jour, Lena Dunham. Nikesh talks to her about the book, how it was written and the greatest Canadian of all time.