Ahead of his appearance at Wordstock next month, Elen Lewis interviewed John Yorke, author of storytelling bible, Into the Woods....
Elena Bowes talked to Alexander Nemerov, author of Fierce Poise, an exciting ride through the 1950s New York art scene,...
Former 26 newsletter editor Nick Asbury tells Elen Lewis about his new exhibition, After Hours, some feel-good wisdom from his...
Elena Bowes talks to our very own John Simmons about his new novel, Spanish Crossings. Describe what you do in...
Rhian Harris, director of the Museum of Childhood, is the brains behind the Modern British Childhood exhibition where 26 writers...
With the launch of 26Habitats getting ever nearer, it’s not just the writers who’ve been busy. Philip Parker caught up...
Elena Bowes spoke with debut author Qian Julie Wang about her poignant and often humorous memoir ‘Beautiful Country’, an instant...
Christopher Hamilton-Emery and his wife Jen founded Salt, an independent publishing house based in Norfolk, 12 years ago. This month,...
Ahead of tonight’s 26 book launch with Room 121 authors, John and Jamie, we asked them about their writing life....
To Manchester’s achingly hip Northern Quarter to meet Nick Asbury, a marketing copywriter with a broad range of clients and...
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
Elena Bowes caught up with Susie Yang about her debut novel, White Ivy, an immigrant story with a twist or...
On Friday 16 June, we held our first-ever popup Wordstock Deconstructed event at The Storytellers. The event was based on...
What’s your day job? My day job is allovertheshop. I switch from brand consultancy, to copywriting, to design, to fiction,...
Catherine Price is the author of two life-enhancing books, How to Break Up with Your Phone and more recently, The...
Jonathan Ruppin is the web editor for Foyles Bookshops and a board member of the publisher And Other Stories. He...
Elena Bowes spoke to Wajahat Ali, a columnist for the Daily Beast, public speaker and author of Go Back to...
Amor Towles’s second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, published in 2016, was on the New York Times’ bestseller list for...
26’s editor talks to Sarah Butler about her award-winning sestude, Unknown Matron’s Mallet. Congratulations on becoming 26’s first project writer...
Rebecca Swift is director and co-founder of The Literary Consultancy, which provides a manuscript assessment service for writers looking for...
John Simmons caught up with designer David Carroll, who created an appropriately flexible logo for Wordstock Deconstructed. David shared the...
This month, Elena Bowes spoke to Anne Griffin about her debut novel, When All is Said – a collection of...
Day job Poet and creative consultant. I travel around the world writing poems, performing poems and helping other people to...
Best-selling author Curtis Sittenfeld talks to Elena Bowes about her new book Rodham, imagining what life would have been like...
Michael Wolff at 26: “I’ve been sacked twelve times. I’m very used to it.” One of the things Wally Olins...
Our very own Rob Self-Pierson has just published his first book, Twinned with… an adventure around the twin towns of...
To leafy Leamington Spa, to interview design-savvy writer Jim Davies, who picked up a D&AD black pencil for his work...
Elena Bowes caught up with Scottish-born, Massachusetts-based writer Margot Livesey whose ninth novel, The Boy in the Field commences as...
Elena Bowes caught up with Andrew Lownie, author of best-selling royal biography Their Lives and Loves, The Mountbattens, a fascinating...
If there’s one person responsible for raising the profile of business copywriting and writing for design over the last decade...
Following the release of Liese O’Halloran Schwarz’s second novel, The Possible World, last summer, Elena Bowes caught up with the...
In this month’s profile of a 26 member, we talk to Nick Parker, creative director of The Writer and author of The Exploding Boy. Here, Nick reveals how his self published short stories got reviewed by The Guardian....more
Elena Bowes caught up with bestselling and award-winning author Lily King whose latest book Writers & Lovers follows 31-year-old Casey...
Elena Bowes spoke to author Lisa Napoli about her book Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie, the Extraordinary story of the...
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 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...
Bestselling author Jasmin Darznik’s third novel, The Bohemians, is a captivating read. Its 333 pages bring to life the heyday...
Fashion Revolution is on the search for writers. Laura Hunter chats to Heather Knight, Fashion Revolution’s Head of Communications, about...
Elena Bowes interviews Joanna Walsh, author of Hotel and Vertigo about stories that are ‘unfoldable’ and the importance of writing...
Barbara Taylor is Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary University of London. She is also author of The Last Asylum,...
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 Debra Jo Immergut to discuss You Again, Immergut’s haunting page-turner where the protagonist 46-year-old married...
Jamie Delves has just won the 26 Emerging Writer Award. Sophie Gordon caught up with Jamie about the search for...
Ahead of his appearance at Wordstock, Elen Lewis speaks to Andy Miller, author of The Year of Reading Dangerously about...