Meet our shortlisted authors on video

12th April, 2021

Catch up with all five of our 2021 shortlisted authors in this series of live interviews which went out in April and May.  Thanks to Steven Conte, Kate Grenville, Maggie O’Farrell, Pip Williams and Hilary Mantel for their time and wonderful insight into their writing minds.  Now available:

Steven Conte discussed his extraordinary novel The Tolstoy Estate, published by Harper Collins Australia:

Kate Grenville talked with our social media manager Sheila M Averbuch about her wonderful novel A Room Made of Leaves:

Maggie O’Farrell, author of Hamnet, joined us from Edinburgh:

Pip Williams, author of The Dictionary of Lost Words, joined us from Tasmania:

And to complete the series, Hilary Mantel discussed The Mirror and the Light.