“From the very first sentence, I already knew what the last sentence would be”
It’s almost 20 years since the evening Yann Martel’s Life of Pi won the Booker Prize: read this exclusive interview with Martel about the (rigorous!) process of researching and writing the novel, as well as about religious belief, and the relationship between facts and storytelling.
The Booker Prizes
Guardian Homelands review
“Our sense of home explored through the story of a journalist’s friendship with a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor… It is a cliché to describe a book as achingly beautiful, but those are the words I reach for: Homelands is both beautiful and, at times, left me with an ache I struggled to name.”
Aamna Mohdin
Guardian
“A lot of nature writing is quite chaste, so I wanted to put the sex into nature writing. So humans as animals, and human instincts, and how the internet and digital technology allows us to amplify our animal instincts is of interest to me, in terms of searching for things, in terms of sexual opportunities, in terms of seasons.”
Amy Liptrot has been interviewed in the Guardian ahead of publication of her new book The Instant. You can also read an extract from the book.
Guardian
It’s Okay. A message brought to you by The Comfort Book from number one bestseller Matt Haig.
The trailer for the PlayStation 5, PC and Mac exhibition of Kid A Mnesia artwork.
