Interviews

One Thousand Shades of Green follows The One Show’s wildlife expert Mike Dilger on an epic mission to see one thousand different species of plants in Britain in 2021. Ahead of our event next week, here’s a little interview with Mike about flora, family and more by our friends at Booktime. The book is about your search for a thousand plants around Britain. Do you think that plants are often forgotten when people think about the natural world? Absolutely. I started off … Read more

Bryan Talbot is a British comics artist and writer, best known as the creator of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and its sequel Heart of Empire, as well as the Grandville series of books. He collaborated with his wife, Mary M. Talbot to produce Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, which won the 2012 Costa biography award. After a gap of over 20 years The Legend Of Luther Arkwright, an eagerly-awaited third volume in the series, is published on 14th July … Read more

Tom Cox is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who has written many bestselling books such as 21st-Century Yokel, Help The Witch and Notebook. He lives near Dartmoor, wrangles a number of cats, and has just released his first full-length novel, Villager – You can read our review here. Question 1 – What book changed your life? My first instinct is to say something I’ve read as an adult which significantly changed my reading habits or my ideas about what I … Read more

This week we chatted to The Bookery patron Patrick Gale about his new book Mother’s Boy. Set in the early twentieth century, Mother’s Boy follows the life of the British poet Charles Causley. A story of love and war, class and belonging, the novel focuses in on the special relationship between Charles and his mother Laura. What inspired you to write Mother’s Boy? I was inspired by my growing obsession with Charles’ work and life, fired by my time as … Read more

We chatted to Cathie from our Schools team to find out all about the work The Bookery does with schools and what we’re doing for World Book Day this month. How did you first come to work with The Bookery? I was involved from the beginning with buying out the old bookshop and establishing the new community owned one. I had recently retired and thought working in a bookshop sounded my ideal voluntary role… I soon realised my skills weren’t … Read more

  Instantly recognisable in her pointy specs, Sarah McIntyre writes and illustrates the Grumpycorn picture books, as well as Dinosaur Firefighters and The New Neighbours. Her co-author collaborations with Philip Reeve include Oliver and the Seawigs and Pugs of the Frozen North, and they’ve had a lot of fun creating their new four-book series about Kevin the Roly-Poly Flying Pony. Sarah loves drawing and creating characters that make her laugh out loud. Visit her website for activities based on each … Read more

Tim Pears is the author of ten novels, including In the Place of Fallen Leaves (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award), In a Land of Plenty (made into a ten-part BBC series), Landed, and most recently, The Horseman, The Wanderers and The Redeemed, which make up the much acclaimed West Country Trilogy. We are very excited that Tim will be at the shop on 27th June to talk about the West Country Trilogy and before … Read more

Q&A With Robert Macfarlane You began your journey as a writer at the highest of elevations, in MOUNTAINS OF THE MIND. It is fascinating that the latest stage of your journey takes you to the lowest – to the world beneath our feet. Can you tell us what led you there? Yes – fifteen years and five books have taken me from the mountain-tops to the sunken storeys of place that lie beneath the surface of both land and mind. … Read more

You may have heard of LoveReading, the online book recommendation website? This year LoveReading has announced exciting new projects and features to serve adult and child readers, and writers. We’ve been chatting to the staff at LoveReading about their story and their plans: What does LoveReading do?  LoveReading is on a mission. A mission to help engender a love of reading. We do that by curating a recommended reading list for our users, to encourage more people to get excited … Read more