Category: Author Interviews – Adult
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Interview With Joanna Toye
Joanna, after a successful career in radio and TV scriptwriting, embarked on a captivating literary journey. Her first series of six novels revolve around a family-owned department store in Britain during the Second World War. Her latest series centres around ‘The Little Penguin bookshop’. Peace and quiet – no music, ever – copious amounts of…
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Interview With Mendez
Mendez, a Jamaican-British writer, authored the semi-autobiographical novel “Rainbow Milk” in 2020. Scroll down for a recording of Mendez in conversation with Professor Rajani Naidoo. Image Credit: Christa Holka My first attempt at a degree was in automotive engineering (I lasted nine months), before I enrolled on a three-year acting course (on which I lasted…
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An Audience with Guardian Prize Winning Author Alex Wheatle, MBE
In October 2023, we welcomed Alex Wheatle to speak at Bath Central Library about his novel Cane Warriors. Alex sadly passed away in 2025. Cane Warriors is based on the true story of an eighteenth-century slave uprising, centring on the teenage Moa and the decisions he must make as a ‘cane warrior’ fighting for freedom…
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Book Launch: Foolish Heroines by June Wentland
On the 18th September 2021 June Wentland, Valley Press and B&NES Libraries held a book launch for June’s debut novel ‘Foolish Heroines’ in Bath Central Library. Watch the reading and fascinating interview here!
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Interview With Harriet Evans
Bath based author Harriet Evans is a Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author including A Hopeless Romantic, The Love of Her Life, Happily Ever After and The Garden of Lost and Found. She spent a number of years working in the publishing industry before becoming an author full time. Earplugs! Earplugs are the most important…
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Interview With Rachel Ward
Rachel Ward is a local author living in Bath, who is the writer of the bestselling YA series ‘Numbers’, the brilliant ‘Ant & Bea Mystery’ series, and standalone crime novels. We’ve been lucky enough to work with Rachel on our Murder Mystery – she’s wrote a fantastic festive mystery, which kept us guessing to the…
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Interview with Dandy Smith
June is National Crime Writing month. We’ve asked Frome-based author Dandy Smith some questions. We hope you enjoy reading… It’s almost impossible to choose only one because there’s a wealth of talent within the genre. I think I’ve read almost everything B.A. Paris has written – her storytelling is suspenseful and seamless. Charlotte Bigland’s debut…
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Interview with Charles Nevin
Charles Nevin has written for, among others, the Guardian, the Independent on Sunday, the Daily Telegraph, The Times and Sunday Times, and the New York Times. Sometimes in Bath is his second book of fiction following Lost in the Wash with Other Things, a collection of short stories. He has also published three books of…