Elizabeth Baines

 What a strange autumn it's been, with all the plants still flowering on the last day of November - including, in our garden, sweet p...

 What's in a name? Or a book cover? My latest piece, a proposal for the publishing industry , for the online literary journal, The Vie...

This book, Clare's suggestion, is the story of two brothers, Homer and Langley Collyer, sons of a bourgeois doctor - one of whom, Home...

Apologies for not blogging much here lately about my comings and goings. It's been a busy  and at the same time a not-so-busy couple of...

I'm delighted to announce the winners of the giveaway of copies of my three Salt books, drawn from the hats by independent adjudicato...

Today is exactly one year since the reissue, in a new edition, of my novel The Birth Machine , and I'm celebrating with a giveaway ...

  My latest piece on the The View From Here magazine, discussing conventional versus experimental fiction.

Ann chose this book as she had watched a TV Review Show in which it received unusually unanimous praise. It is related in the first-person n...

Didsbury Arts Festival kicked off on Saturday. Yesterday morning I was moved to tears by the sight of these little boys playing with the Thi...

Trevor suggested this book on which the Stanley Kubrick film of the same name was based, a film Kubrick famously withdrew after accusations ...

Just out from Carve magazine, the publisher of 'honest fiction': an anthology of 2008 Carve stories, which includes my story '...

My latest article on the literary magazine, The View From Here , assessing the current shortlist and considering the BBC story cuts and the ...

Today in the Guardian Sarah Crown initiates a discussion on author productivity , suggesting that we overvalue slow production (such as that...

Catch-up time. After six months of solid writing followed by a summer of immensely enjoyable but distracting family reunions and long period...

Well, it's festival time again. Once again I'm reading at the The Didsbury Arts Festiva l - this time from the reissued The Birth...

Once again I have left it so long to write up a report that my memory of the discussion is unlikely to be comprehensive, but here goes. Je...

John chose this book because of the huge attention it has received since the English translation appeared in 2009. Originally published in G...

On Thursday I was at the Art of Wiring Pamphlet party at the Electricity Showrooms in Hoxton Square, now done out on the ground floor as a t...

The clip of my reading of the second extract from The Birth Machine is up on the Goggle Festival website:

Review now up at Goggle Festival site: 'This is a book that should be read and reread.'