Novelists at Hay 2015
David Mitchell: I'm a fake novelist
The author tells Clemency Burton-Hill why he prefers the novella form.
- David Mitchell: I'm a fake novelist
- John Boyne: The first review called it a novel of blush-making vulgarity
- John Boyne on why Bruno reads Treasure Island
- Anne Enright: It's nice to come home to a country I recognise
- Neil Gaiman reveals the real story of Sleeping Beauty
- Neil Gaiman: Why illustrators need to be good readers
- Neil Gaiman's dark secret: A biography of Duran Duran
- Neil Gaiman's favourite memory of Terry Pratchett
- Sheila Hancock on idealism
- Sheila Hancock on the importance of the arts
- Sheila Hancock: John was more like The Sweeney than Morse
- Kazuo Ishiguro on remembering and forgetting in The Buried Giant
- Andrew O'Hagan reads a passage about a firefight in Helmand Province
- Andrew O'Hagan on drawing inspiration from life for The Illuminations
- Vikram Seth reads his moving poem, Caged
- Meera Syal on The House of Hidden Mothers
- Rose Tremain on The American Lover
- Rose Tremain's brush with Royalty
- Irvine Welsh on 'Juice' Terry Lawson from A Decent Ride
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- Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner
- Alex Salmond
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Andrew O鈥橦agan
- Andrew Solomon
- Anne Enright
- Antonia Fraser
- Ben and David Crystal
- Call The Midwife
- Celia Imrie and Terry Waite
- Cressida Cowell
- Dan & Peter Snow
- David Mitchell
- Frank Cottrell Boyce
- Germaine Greer: Liberation
- Germaine Greer: Shakespeare's Women
- Helen Macdonald
- Ian Bostridge
- Irvine Welsh
- James Rhodes
- John Boyne
- Jon Ronson
- Karen Armstrong
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Marcus Brigstocke, Steve Punt and guests
- Mary Portas
- Meera Syal
- Michael Morpurgo, Alison Reid, Daniel Pioro and The Storyteller鈥檚 Ensemble
- Neil Gaiman
- Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell
- Nigel Kennedy
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- Robert Macfarlane
- Rose Tremain
- Sandi Toksvig
- Sheila Hancock
- Simon Schama
- Stephen Fry
- Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and guests
- Steve Punt, Will Smith and Marcus Brigstocke
- Tom Holland, Bettany Hughes, Peter Stothard
- Tom Holland: De-radicalising Muhammad
- Vikram Seth
- William Banks-Blaney
- Yuval Noah Harari