Authors at Foyles

In this exclusive interview for Foyles to celebrate the publication of Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary talks about her fascination with Thomas Cromwell and the corrupting effects of power.

Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya dicusses his new book, The Watch, based on Sophoocles' tragedy Antigone, which is the first novel to depict the front-line realities of the current war in Afghanistan.

Jess Richards talks about the origins of her dazzling debut novel, Snake Ropes, plus an extract from the book and an exclusive short story.

Chad Harbach, author of The Art of Fielding, on baseball, Moby-Dick and the pursuit of perfection.

M L Stedman, author of The Light between Oceans, talks about visiting lighthouses, setting much of her novel in such a limited space and the dangers of feeling protective towards her characters.

Belinda McKeon talks about the allure of Home and Away to a teenager growing up on an Irish farm, the differing challenges of writing plays and novels and watching Carol Ann Duffy sing to Seamus Heaney on his 70th birthday.

Bestselling Turkish author Elif Shafak on her new novel, Honour: she discusses the tumultuous 1970s, the different possibilities afforded by writing in two languages and how the problem of honour killings is more than just an Islamic issue.

Read an interview with Suzanne Collins, or the first chapters of Hunger Games and Catching Fire, and try out your Hunger Games skills in an online challenge.

Discussing his novel, Gold, Chris Cleave talks about his long-held connection with the London Olympics, observing the work done by Great Ormond Street first-hand and how he felt after trying to keep up with the training regime of top-level athletes.

Naomi Wood, author of stunning debut novel The Godless Boys, talks about the dangers of fashionable atheism and losing touch with religion altogether, how boredom breeds violence and feeling sorry for Ernest Hemingway.

Julian Barnes, winner of 2011 Man Booker Prize and one of Britain's best-loved and most acclaimed writers of fiction, picks ten books that have moved, inspired, entertained and surprised him, exclusively for Foyles.

Charly Flower, author of The Power in Softness, explains why women need to continue to assert their identities in a world that remains deeply patriarchal, even in the lesbian community.

On publication of her new standalone Roman-era novel, Master and God, Lindsey Davis, author of the hugely popular Falco series of Roman crime novels, shares her favourite books.

Anne Enright discusses her Orange-shortlistedThe Forgotten Waltz, her first novel since winning the 2007 Man Booker Prize for The Gathering.

Jake Simons writes about his own abortive attempts to join the secret service and how his contacts from his university days helped him make his new thriller, The Pure, as authentic as possible.

Anthony McCarten discusses his new novel, Brilliance, which explores Thomas Edison's transformation from inventor to businessman with the assistance of John Pierpoint Morgan.

Jeffrey Eugenides discusses his long-awaited new novel, The Marriage Plot: how it originally started out as another novel entirely, how reinventing older forms can push the novel forward and why his sympathies are with the tortoise.

Christopher Burns, author of A Division of the Light, discusses the relationship between photographer and subject, how the photograph used for the cover of a novel about photography was chosen and our changing relationship with photography in the digital age.

Jeremy Mynott, author of Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience, picks the ten books on birds that have most influenced and informed him.

As comic writer Marina Lewycka's fourth novel is published we caught up with her to find out more about the legacy of 1968, achieving success in later life and her fascination with rabbits and other small, furry creatures.