Authors at Foyles

Gill Hornby's debut follows the friendships and feuds of a group of women who meet at the school gate each day. Over the course of a school year - and under the guise of the school's charity committee - they scheme, support, compete and jostle for position in their unspoken but fiercely run hierarchy. Read the first chapter here.

Bee Ridgway, author of historical, romantic time-travel epic The River of No Return, talks about breaking the rules of genre fiction, why Mary Wolstonecraft is still relevant today and when men first started looking like Colin Firth in a wet linen shirt.

Paul Lynch, author of Red Sky in Morning, shares some of his favourite Irish fiction, including James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Sebastian Barry's A Long, Long Way.

Brian Kimberling, author of Snapper, talks about Indiana songbirds, Daffy Duck and an America without Starbucks.

Read the first chapter of Suzanne Rindell's stylish tale of the intoxicating and dark side of friendship, set in New York City, 1924 at the height of Prohibition and our exlusive interview with the author.

Gabriel Gbadamosi is an Irish-Nigerian poet, playwright, writer and critic. His debut novel, Vauxhall is a tender and occasionally dark portrait of a child growing up and looking for his place in inner city London.

Read an extract from poet Kate Clanchy's first novel, Meeting the English, set in London in the hot summer of 1989.

Ma Jian talks to us about the smothering of love in China, the ownership and invasion of female bodies in the republic and finally the small possibility of change and mercy towards its women.

This debut novel set in a remote German village in 1926 explores the suspicion and prejudice that arise when a baby goes missing. Read the author's foreword and sample the first chapter.

Anthony Marra talks about an entire generation of Chechens who have spent their lives as refugees, how trauma magnifies moral deficiency and how the Boston Marathon bombings showed America that the war in Chechnya has global significance.

Sam Byers, author of Idiopathy, talks about writing a comic novel inadvertently, the pros and cons of Twitter and the difference between who we are, who we think we are and who we think we should be.

To celebrate the publication of Americanah, we talked to Chimamanda about her relationship with the US and the immigrant experience.

Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master's Son, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a romantic comedy and shocking exposé set in Kim Jong-Il's North Korea, talks about his first-hand experiences of the self-styled "most glorious nation in the world".

Jenni Fagan, one Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, talks about taking on any work she could find to allow her to keep writing, leaving books out on her garden wall for people to take and her precarious favourite reading spot.

Meike Ziervogel, founder of Pierene Press, talks about her first novel, Magda.

An extract from Bundu, Chris Barnard's new novel set in a refugee camp near Mozambique, shortlisted for the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Like many Germans, Eva is haunted by the events of the Second World War, which inspired her to write her debut novel, The Puppet Boy of Warsaw. We talked to her about creativity and the taboos that still exist when writing about the war.

Taiye Selasi talks about why Africa's past is dismissed as primitive, the way music can often outdo literature in reflecting soicety today and her telepathic relationship with her twin.

We talked to Graeme about 'geeks' and why those with 'non-standard' personalities are becoming more accpeted; the challenges of writing a funny book about someone with Asperger's and why he gave a conference address from the top of a ladder dressed as a duck.

Carlene's sparkling, witty debut novel, told entirely through correspondence, was inspired by the real-life friendship between two giants of American letters, Flannery O'Connor and Robert Lowell. We chatted to her about the challenges of the epistolary novel, faith and doubt and why she prefers a conversation over coffee to an exchange on Twitter.