Left: Rishi Dastidar’s Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak.Right: Gita Ralleigh’s empirical. Back in March, 26er Gita Ralleigh got in touch with...
I recently bought a typewriter. I love it. It’s from 1963, an Olympia Monica de Luxe, and comes in a...
Why does it matter to be muddy, soaked in something moving, physical, dirt filled? Ceramics mark an interaction with a...
Elena Bowes spoke with Yael van der Wouden about her award-winning debut novel The Safe Keep. A psychological thriller mixed...
Monoprint by Andy Hayes @andyinfinity on Instagram “Why Words Matter” is a new podcast series from 26, exploring the power...
Monoprint by Andy Hayes (@andyinfinity on Instagram). You might have seen – or more to the point, heard – that...
Julian Gorham is a copywriter and poet. Nelly Dimitranova is an artist and joint winner of the Hugh Casson Drawing...
Elena Bowes spoke with Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, about his memoir, Your Table is Ready: Tales of a New York City Mâitre...
This month, we travel to the New Zealand chapter of 26 to meet Kat Mason, talking all things work, wine,...
This month, Elena Bowes spoke with the New York Times best-selling author Ann Leary, about her most recent book, I’ve...
Elena Bowes spoke with Annabel Monaghan about her latest funny, romantic page-turner, Summer Romance, which came out in the US...
During her sixties, Lyn Slater, a professor of social work, a grandmother with grey hair and wrinkles, started a blog...
Elena Bowes spoke to Elinor Lipman, the award-winning author of 16 books of fiction and nonfiction, including Then She Found...
Elena Bowes spoke to the supremely talented, award-winning author, podcaster and teacher Dani Shapiro about Dani’s latest novel, Signal Fires....
After Lucy, a 26er, clinical psychologist and writer, got in touch last week to share the news about her latest...
Ahead of her “Trade Secrets” workshop on 10 May, Kimberly Bennett talks to Sabine Harnau about intellectual property, and how...
Rebecca Zeman, who some 26ers may know as Rebecca Dowman, talks to Jill Hopper about the publication of her first...
Another gap; of Imbolc and pink skies and fiery horses. February has been muddy. Each day the minutes before sunset...
Elise Valmorbida interviews 26 board member Wendy Sacks Jones about her gripping debut novel, The Candidate’s Husband, published December 2025...
Elena Bowes spoke with Annabel Monaghan, a hopeless romantic, about her latest novel It’s a Love Story, which comes out...
Monoprint by Andy Hayes (@andyinfinity on Instagram). “Why Words Matter” is a new podcast series from 26, exploring the power of...
Elena Bowes chatted with Neroli Lacey about her debut novel, The Perfumer’s Secret. It’s a thrilling book, a page turner,...
Elena Bowes caught up with Anastasia Rubis, who goes by Stacy, the author of Oriana, a wonderful moving novel about...
Elena Bowes caught up with American author Rufi Thorpe about her latest off-beat, funny and empowering novel, Margo’s Got Money...
Elena Bowes caught up with American author Alison Espach to discuss her darkly comic book The Wedding People. Espach shows...
Elena Bowes speaks to renowned food writer Ruth Reichl about her latest bestseller The Paris Novel. Reichl wrote her first...
Elena Bowes spoke to debut author Holly Gramazio about her entertaining new novel The Husbands, a funny, original and surprisingly...
Elena Bowes talked to Jillian Lavender, one of the most experienced and in-demand meditation teachers in the world, about her...
Hell if We Don’t Change Our Ways, by Brittany Means is a superbly told memoir about Mean’s harrowing childhood where...
Elena Bowes catches up with debut novelist Leigh McMullan Abramson about her pageturner of a New York family saga, A...
Gita Ralleigh is a poet, writer and doctor born to Indian immigrant parents in London. She teaches creative writing to...
Elena Bowes, aptly, has some questions for Rebecca Makkai, about her latest novel I Have Some Questions for You. I...
Elise Valmorbida interviews Oana Aristide about her second novel Astronaut! published by Wildfire on 26/03/26 (yes, 26 and 26). Aristide’s...
To distract from the no-leaves, no-sun, no-daylight problems of January, I’ve spent this month delving into Ancient Greek colour theory....
This November I spoke with artist, illustrator and designer Lydia Thornley. We met in the Terrace Café at the British...
This is a bit of email correspondence between 26 boardster Elise Valmorbida (right, above) and 26er Veronika Dapunt (left) who’s currently launching her debut...
Elena Bowes caught up with Lynda Cohen Loigman about her latest novel, The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern. Below are...
This month I met with Harry Ashton-Key, my friend from university, and we talked about science, wonder, burnout, and somewhat...
And He Shall Appear is the stunning debut by 26 member, Kate van der Borgh. When the young, working class narrator...
This month Chloe Green and I spoke with Anushka Shah, the winner of 26’s Emerging Writer Award 2024. We met...
Elena Bowes spoke to best-selling American author Dawn Tripp about her latest novel, Jackie. Grounded in historical research, Dawn captures...
Elena Bowes speaks to London-based author Clare Pooley about her latest novel How to Age Disgracefully. This novel is very...
Elena Bowes caught up with British author Elizabeth Fremantle to discuss her historical thriller Disobedient, a breath-taking story about the...
Elena Bowes caught up with bestselling American author Adrienne Brodeur about her latest novel, Little Monsters. Praised by the Washington...
“We wrote a book that reminds us, and maybe helps others, to avoid the trap of trying to think our...
We Should Not Be Friends, The Story of a Friendship by Will Schwalbe is a story of an improbable friendship...
What if you hit pause on your career for a year? Alisha Fernandez Miranda did just that and shares her...
Elena Bowes talks to Amy Poeppel about her hilarious, heartwarming novel, The Sweet Spot. Amy, I absolutely loved The Sweet...