“In Dirt Road we see [Kelman] continuing to show how human experience can be energised and renewed by its modest scale, not flattened by it into a stereotype. It is another masterpiece from one of our best writers.”
Kirsty Gunn
Guardian
The High Mountains of Portugal
“The moral and spiritual implications of his tale have, in the end, a quality of haunting tenderness”
Ursula K Le Guin
Guardian
“It was in the painting that I first saw myself as countless suitors had often described me. Before then, I would frown at my face in a hand-held mirror, wondering what they saw that made me so beautiful in their eyes.”
“Tattooing in prison is like trying to sew fine stitches with a knitting needle. It’s the essence of prison ingenuity – that so much can be done with so little.”
Watch Yann Martel discussing Life of Pi following its original US publication in 2002.
“I now believe that there are books with magic and without. And I much prefer them with, thank you very much.” Scarlett Thomas on Dragon’s Green
Guardian
Watch Josh Jelly-Schapiro introduce Island People from Cuba
Watch the trailer for Doctor Who series 10, starring Matt Lucas as Nardole
“I've inferred, I've hedged, I've denied, but I've never told the full story to the public, or the press, and that is what I intend to do. For the first time, I will explain "I am Luka."”
“She will say I am sorry and Valerie will say none of it was your fault, it was all his, I believe you. No reply. She has to leave a message because phones are not allowed in prison and Valerie is visiting Solomon.”
Watch Rick Gekoski introducing his debut novel Darke
“He is walking along with his parents, tears a lion limb from limb with his bare hands, and says nothing. Why is he silent?”
‘A hugely commendable debut, assured and memorable. Crime fiction may have its prize-winner at last’
Lesley McDowell
Independent