Elizabeth Baines

Today I had one of those moments that can make an author's entire week. Last time I went into Waterstone's Deansgate they had four c...

Here's a laugh: last week I had an article on The View from Here in which I said that when I'm really immersed in my writing I can ...

Ann suggested this book in which a history teacher narrator, Tom Crick, due to lose his post for traumatic personal reasons, relates - both ...

When I set out to write The Birth Machine , was my chief aim to address the issue of hi-tech childbirth and to set the profession of Obstetr...

I know I don't need to enumerate here for my lovely blog readers the reasons we need to save our libraries from the government slashfest...

Prompted by the Faber Academy discussion about Creative Writing on Fictionbitch, here's my own (ambivalent) take on one particular as...

Trevor suggested this 1952 novel , Vonnegut's first, which takes place in an America where, after another war, machines have taken over ...

Well, the top floor of Waterstone's Deansgate in Manchester may now be mainly a restaurant, and its ground floor half given over to Pap...

Today on the Faber blog, Faber Academy's Ian Ellard takes up the debate - Why write? - at its most radical level, with an historical ...

There's one thing that really gets me. Every so often I get an email from someone writing about writers - the writing life, writers and ...

They say, with good reason, that you should never take any notice of what your close relatives say about your writing. Now that the flu bug ...

Because I have been so busy lately with promotion for The Birth Machine , Ann has kindly written up our November reading group discussion...

The Faber Academy discussion on Creative Writing continues today with a more controversial post from Marcel Theroux, co-leader of the up...

I dipped my toe in the water of my new draft this morning, and I'm pleased to report that it felt just fine. Was a bit too scared to wad...

What's the point of writing? Or teaching writing? Novelist Sue Gee kicks off the Faber Academy discussion on Fictionbitch . Your comment...

I'm delighted to say that beginning tomorrow my Fictionbitch blog will host a Faber Academy discussion on the radical question, 'W...

It's a funny thing, talking about your work on the radio. The first time I went on Andrew Edwards' ALL FM Artbeat programme was when...

Mark suggested comparing these two novels which deal with the American Dream as experienced by the players at its Hollywood heart, the West...

I've been so busy working on promotion for The Birth Machine and, for a time at least, trying to keep going with my WIP, that I just hav...

Season's Greetings to you all! I hope you've had a good holiday period, though I know a lot of people have been and are ill and I wi...