Chairing writers' festival panels, hosting Q&A events, interviewing authors in bookshops or concert halls has become part of the writing life for many contemporary authors. It's a way to contribute to the literary community, keep your literary presence alive between books and take part in interesting debates - but running a live interview or hosting an event can be terrifying for the novice. In this short, useful guide author Charlotte Wood shares...

Charlotte Wood's The Writer's Room is essential reading for writers at all stages of their careers, and also pure reading pleasure for booklovers everywhere. Charlotte's interviews with a wide variety of well-known writers, range in topic from the subject matter of the writers' work to intricate - and intimate - revelations about the ways in which they work. Frank about the failures and successes, the struggles and triumphs of the writing life, this...

"For nearly four decades, lifelong friends Jude, Wendy, Adele, and Sylvie have seen each other through romances, child-rearing, changing careers, divorces, medical recoveries, and general aging. But now Sylvie has died, and the three remaining women are tasked with cleaning out her beach house before it's sold. Thrust together In this weathered old house on the ocean, where the ghosts of their younger selves compete with their current realities, the...