Interview with The Guardian

The Guardian podcast: In conversation about writing The Western Wind, with Richard Lea

Author Samantha Harvey in Edinburgh by Murdo MacLeod

Where people say the unspeakable –why the need to confess so often makes for great literature

An essay in The Telegraph about confession in literature

Publication day of The Western Wind

The Western Wind is published today, and reviewed by M John Harrison in The Guardian.

Front Row

In conversation with Kirstie Lang on Radio 4’s Front Row.

The must-read books to come in 2018

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James Kidd, writing in the South China Morning Post, has included The Western Wind in his must-reads of 2018.

‘Trumping all the above might be Samantha Harvey, whose relative anonymity should end if her next novel, The Western Wind, does as well as it deserves come March. Set in 15th-century England, it is a murder mystery, an acute dissection of class and money, and fabulously written.’

The Guardian round-up of 2018’s best fiction

The Western Wind has been included in Alex Preston’s round-up of the best fiction for 2018, along with some novels I’m much looking forward to.

‘The Western Wind’ named Book of the Month by The Bookseller

Alice O’Keeffe, editor at The Bookseller, chooses The Western Wind as her Book of the Month. The Western Wind is due for publication in the UK on 1st March 2018, and Alice O’Keeffe’s article can be viewed just here.

The Bookseller.

Giller Prize longlist announced

For 6 months, I’ve been adopting an increasingly large and innovative number of reading positions in order to physically sustain my reading habits, and do justice to the 161 novels and story collections submitted to the Scotiabank Giller Prize. It’s been a long, wild, illuminating, exhausting ride and today the longlist of 12 is announced.

We, the 5 judges, are pretty excited by the eccentric list we’ve drawn up; it’s heartfelt, reflects our collective and individual passions and pays no heed to conformity for conformity’s sake. There are books that it pained us to leave off the list; there’s nothing easy about narrowing 161 to 12. To all 161 authors, thanks – how honoured I am to have read your work and got to know books I’d have not known otherwise.

The Giller Prize 2016

I’m really honoured to be one of the five judges for this year’s Giller Prize, along with Lawrence Hill, Jeet Heer, Alan Warner and Kathleen Winter. Soon to start reading a literal shed-load of books.

 

Edinburgh Festival 2015

With Petina Gappah and Lee Randall at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 2015

Ed 2015

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