10 Questions with Simon Wroe
‘The first draft took four months’
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All London book talks 20 Aug - 2 Sep 2026
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All London book talks 13 - 26 Aug 2026
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10 Questions with Jack Parlett
'I’ve long felt that flamboyance has been somewhat neglected as a concept, compared with camp'
All London book talks 6 - 19 Aug 2026
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10 Questions with Karishma Jobanputra
'I can’t move on from a sentence or a paragraph until I think it’s good, so I don’t get to ‘finished draft’ status very quickly'
10 Questions with Galia Admoni
'I started my book by returning to old work: published poems, fragments and abandoned drafts. Rather than writing something new, I focused on editing'
All London book talks 30 July - 12 Aug 2026
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10 Questions with Monisha Rajesh
Monisha Rajesh’s latest book Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train (Bloomsbury) takes the reader from Austria's Nightjet to the Caledonian Sleeper and the Santa Claus Express.
All London book talks 23 July - 5 Aug 2026
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10 Questions with Nikita Gill
'Tell the story you’re most afraid of telling'
10 Questions with M. Syd Rosen
'People often encourage writers to tell stories only they can tell, but I think it’s just as important to consider what stories won’t be told if a writer gives up'