Ahead of her “Trade Secrets” workshop on 10 May, Kimberly Bennett talks to Sabine Harnau about intellectual property, and how...
The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream is a very funny, sometimes romantic and often moving portrait of how one...
Ahead of tonight’s 26 book launch with Room 121 authors, John and Jamie, we asked them about their writing life....
This month I met with Harry Ashton-Key, my friend from university, and we talked about science, wonder, burnout, and somewhat...
Hot on the heels of Adrian Hon’s star turn at this year’s Wordstock, associate editor, Elena Bowes spoke to the...
Ahead of novelist Gillian Slovo’s appearance at 26’s Festival of Words, Wordstock on 8 October, we asked her to name...
To distract from the no-leaves, no-sun, no-daylight problems of January, I’ve spent this month delving into Ancient Greek colour theory....
I recently bought a typewriter. I love it. It’s from 1963, an Olympia Monica de Luxe, and comes in a...
Elena Bowes talked to Alexander Nemerov, author of Fierce Poise, an exciting ride through the 1950s New York art scene,...
Elena Bowes caught up with Andrew Lownie, author of best-selling royal biography Their Lives and Loves, The Mountbattens, a fascinating...
Catherine Price is the author of two life-enhancing books, How to Break Up with Your Phone and more recently, The...
Elena Bowes caught up with Debra Jo Immergut to discuss You Again, Immergut’s haunting page-turner where the protagonist 46-year-old married...
Elena Bowes talked to New York-based author Francine Russo about her new book, Love After Fifty: How to Find It,...
Elise Valmorbida interviews 26er Jill Hopper about her debut book, The Mahogany Pod, recently published by Saraband and described by...
Elena Bowes catches up with Liese O’Halloran Schwarz about her latest book, What Could Be Saved, which is just as...
Elena Bowes talked to LA-based writer Lori Gottlieb about her New York Times bestseller Maybe You Should Talk to Someone...
Ettie Bailey-King is an inclusive communication consultant who helps organisations make inclusive language part of their voice, make their content...
Elena Bowes speaks to author Lynda Cohen Loigman about her latest novel, The Matchmaker’s Gift. The Matchmaker’s Gift is a...
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...
This month, we travel to the New Zealand chapter of 26 to meet Kat Mason, talking all things work, wine,...
Amor Towles’s second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, published in 2016, was on the New York Times’ bestseller list for...
Best-selling author and former Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson (MBE) is one of the 26 storytellers taking part in our 26...
Another gap; of Imbolc and pink skies and fiery horses. February has been muddy. Each day the minutes before sunset...
This November I spoke with artist, illustrator and designer Lydia Thornley. We met in the Terrace Café at the British...
What if you hit pause on your career for a year? Alisha Fernandez Miranda did just that and shares her...
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 British writer Clare Pooley about her fantastic second novel, The People on Platform 5 or in...
Award-winning author, creative writing teacher and 26 board director Elise Valmorbida has come out with her sixth book and it’s...
Gita Ralleigh is a poet, writer and doctor born to Indian immigrant parents in London. She teaches creative writing to...
Elena Bowes spoke to Lan Samantha Chang about The Family Chao, a gripping, hilarious and original tale about a tyrannical...
Elena Bowes caught up with bestselling and award-winning author Lily King whose latest book Writers & Lovers follows 31-year-old Casey...
Elena Bowes caught up with author Maggie Doherty to discuss The Equivalents – A Story of Art, Female Friendship and...
Elena Bowes talks to Amy Poeppel about her hilarious, heartwarming novel, The Sweet Spot. Amy, I absolutely loved The Sweet...
Elena Bowes interviews Mary Laura Philpott about her recent bestselling memoir, Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives. Always with...
This month Chloe Green and I spoke with Anushka Shah, the winner of 26’s Emerging Writer Award 2024. We met...
Skyfaring, A Journey with a Pilot, author, BA pilot and avid photographer takes readers into the cockpit and opens their...
Barbara Taylor is Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary University of London. She is also author of The Last Asylum,...
And He Shall Appear is the stunning debut by 26 member, Kate van der Borgh. When the young, working class narrator...
Why does it matter to be muddy, soaked in something moving, physical, dirt filled? Ceramics mark an interaction with a...
Elena Bowes spoke to American author Adrienne Brodeur about her best selling memoir, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover and...
Elise Valmorbida interviews Margate Bookie founder Andreas Loizou about his non-fiction work, The Story is Everything: Mastering Creative Communication for...
Elena Bowes caught up with American author Annabel Monaghan about her touching, hilarious and addictive debut novel, Nora Goes Off...
Best-selling author Curtis Sittenfeld talks to Elena Bowes about her new book Rodham, imagining what life would have been like...
Elena Bowes talks to bestselling author Erica Bauermeister about her recent memoir House Lessons. Bauermeister and her husband bought a...
Bestselling author Jasmin Darznik’s third novel, The Bohemians, is a captivating read. Its 333 pages bring to life the heyday...
Author Laura Zigman spoke to Elena Bowes about her latest book Separation Anxiety, Zigman’s fifth book after a 14-year writer’s...
Elena Bowes spoke to author Lisa Napoli about her book Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie, the Extraordinary story of the...
Elena Bowes caught up with Scottish-born, Massachusetts-based writer Margot Livesey whose ninth novel, The Boy in the Field commences as...