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...
Elise Valmorbida interviews Oana Aristide about her second novel Astronaut! published by Wildfire on 26/03/26 (yes, 26 and 26). Aristide’s...
Elena Bowes spoke to American author Adrienne Brodeur about her best selling memoir, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover and...
Ahead of his appearance at Wordstock next month, Elen Lewis interviewed John Yorke, author of storytelling bible, Into the Woods....
Many members of 26 are no strangers to working with designers. But what does the relationship with writing, writers and...
Rhian Harris, director of the Museum of Childhood, is the brains behind the Modern British Childhood exhibition where 26 writers...
26er Rishi Dastidar writes poems in his spare time. Alongside nine others, he has been shortlisted for Complete Works II,...
For our latest project, 26 of our members were paired with historic writers from Norwich, England’s only City of Literature,...
Elena Bowes caught up with bestselling American author Adrienne Brodeur about her latest novel, Little Monsters. Praised by the Washington...
Elena Bowes caught up with Andrew Lownie, author of best-selling royal biography Their Lives and Loves, The Mountbattens, a fascinating...
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...
Paddington Station is a handsome rail terminus rich in industrial heritage, but even its best friends would acknowledge it’s not...
Preethi Nair, author, publicist and publisher, not to mention this year’s Wordstock Speaker Extraordinaire answered most of Elena Bowes’s questions....
Elena Bowes talked to New York-based author Francine Russo about her new book, Love After Fifty: How to Find It,...
Elena Bowes spoke to Lan Samantha Chang about The Family Chao, a gripping, hilarious and original tale about a tyrannical...
Best-selling author and former Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson (MBE) is one of the 26 storytellers taking part in our 26...
Elena Bowes speaks to author Lynda Cohen Loigman about her latest novel, The Matchmaker’s Gift. The Matchmaker’s Gift is a...
Another gap; of Imbolc and pink skies and fiery horses. February has been muddy. Each day the minutes before sunset...
Ahead of tonight’s 26 book launch with Room 121 authors, John and Jamie, we asked them about their writing life....
Elena Bowes, aptly, has some questions for Rebecca Makkai, about her latest novel I Have Some Questions for You. I...
Amor Towles’s second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, published in 2016, was on the New York Times’ bestseller list for...
Elena Bowes catches up with debut novelist Leigh McMullan Abramson about her pageturner of a New York family saga, A...
Rebecca Swift is director and co-founder of The Literary Consultancy, which provides a manuscript assessment service for writers looking for...
Elena Bowes talked to Jillian Lavender, one of the most experienced and in-demand meditation teachers in the world, about her...
Elena Bowes caught up with British author Elizabeth Fremantle to discuss her historical thriller Disobedient, a breath-taking story about the...
Day job Poet and creative consultant. I travel around the world writing poems, performing poems and helping other people to...
To east London, and Tim Rich’s live/work weavers’ cottage at the very end of Brick Lane. Built in the closing...
Ahead of his appearance at Wordstock, Elen Lewis speaks to Andy Miller, author of The Year of Reading Dangerously about...
We Should Not Be Friends, The Story of a Friendship by Will Schwalbe is a story of an improbable friendship...
Monoprint by Andy Hayes (@andyinfinity on Instagram). “Why Words Matter” is a new podcast series from 26, exploring the power of...
During her sixties, Lyn Slater, a professor of social work, a grandmother with grey hair and wrinkles, started a blog...
Charles Boyle is the founder and 'one-man press' of CB editions, a small, eclectic imprint that was initially launched to give a home to books that nobody else would publish and has become a well-respected publisher of first-class tastes bringing us David Markson's 'This is Not a Novel' and Gert Hoffman's 'Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl'. Charles talks to Elen Lewis about the power of individual sentences ...more
Hell if We Don’t Change Our Ways, by Brittany Means is a superbly told memoir about Mean’s harrowing childhood where...
Elena Bowes caught up with Lynda Cohen Loigman about her latest novel, The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern. Below are...
To leafy Leamington Spa, to interview design-savvy writer Jim Davies, who picked up a D&AD black pencil for his work...
Elena Bowes spoke with British writer Clare Pooley about her fantastic second novel, The People on Platform 5 or in...
Elena Bowes interviews Joanna Walsh, author of Hotel and Vertigo about stories that are ‘unfoldable’ and the importance of writing...
Hot on the heels of Adrian Hon’s star turn at this year’s Wordstock, associate editor, Elena Bowes spoke to the...
Elena Bowes caught up with author Maggie Doherty to discuss The Equivalents – A Story of Art, Female Friendship and...
Elena Bowes caught up with American author Alison Espach to discuss her darkly comic book The Wedding People. Espach shows...
Elena Bowes speaks to London-based author Clare Pooley about her latest novel How to Age Disgracefully. This novel is very...
I recently bought a typewriter. I love it. It’s from 1963, an Olympia Monica de Luxe, and comes in a...
Elena Bowes talks to our very own John Simmons about his new novel, Spanish Crossings. Describe what you do in...
26’s editor talks to Sarah Butler about her award-winning sestude, Unknown Matron’s Mallet. Congratulations on becoming 26’s first project writer...
Following the release of Liese O’Halloran Schwarz’s second novel, The Possible World, last summer, Elena Bowes caught up with the...
To distract from the no-leaves, no-sun, no-daylight problems of January, I’ve spent this month delving into Ancient Greek colour theory....
Elena Bowes caught up with American author Annabel Monaghan about her touching, hilarious and addictive debut novel, Nora Goes Off...