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Author: Adam Biles ,
Sylvia Whitman ,
Adam Biles
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate Books
Edition: Main
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.180kg
ISBN: 9781837260690
ISBN 10: 1837260699
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 19 June 2025
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""A collection of talks with an impressive range of writers that celebrates its heritage as a focus of cultural conversation . . . Thanks to this collection, you can settle into a corner of Shakespeare and Company even if you can't make it to Paris""-- ""Harper's Bazaar"" ""A tantalising glimpse into the thoughts of some of our most vital writers . . . This is a refreshing approach to a text that, in other hands, could have felt stuffy and inaccessible""-- ""Arts Desk"" ""Biles is a skilled interviewer, soliciting reflections that shed light on how successful authors approach their craft and think about the world. The result is an illuminating glimpse inside the minds of writers""-- ""Publisher's Weekly"" ""This handsome hardback comprises a series of interviews with authors that took place on the shopfloor over the past decade or so""-- ""Times Literary Supplement""
"""A collection of talks with an impressive range of writers that celebrates its heritage as a focus of cultural conversation . . . Thanks to this collection, you can settle into a corner of Shakespeare and Company even if you can't make it to Paris""-- ""Harper's Bazaar"" ""A tantalising glimpse into the thoughts of some of our most vital writers . . . This is a refreshing approach to a text that, in other hands, could have felt stuffy and inaccessible""-- ""Arts Desk"" ""Biles is a skilled interviewer, soliciting reflections that shed light on how successful authors approach their craft and think about the world. The result is an illuminating glimpse inside the minds of writers""-- ""Publisher's Weekly"" ""This handsome hardback comprises a series of interviews with authors that took place on the shopfloor over the past decade or so""-- ""Times Literary Supplement"""
Author Information
Adam Biles is an English writer and translator based in Paris. He is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company, from where he hosts their weekly podcast, and where he curated the podcast series Friends of Shakespeare and Company Read Ulysses. Feeding Time, his first novel, was published by Galley Beggar Press and was a book of the year for the Observer and Irish Times. It was published by Editions Grasset in France in 2018 to great critical acclaim. His second novel Beasts of England, an anarchic sequel to Orwell's Animal Farm, will be published by Galley Beggar Press next year.
