In the fourth and final episode of our conversation with David Mitchell and Michel Faber, we kick off by talking author events and public readings with reference to The Bone Clocks and Mitchell's performative self.  Keep reading →

In the third, and penultimate, part of the David Mitchell and Michel Faber double-header, we start off by talking immortality and the status of fiction in the 21st century. Keep reading →

In part two of my interview with Michel Faber and David Mitchell, we begin by talking big books and the attempt to say everything in fiction.  Keep reading →

I interviewed the novelists David Mitchell and Michel Faber for the Sunday Independent. Mitchell had not long since published The Bone Clocks, and Faber The Book of Strange New Things.  Keep reading →

As a trailer for thisWriting Life Extra Special, Michel Faber and David Mitchell discuss their firstmeetings, before Faber pulls a mix-tape out of the bag.  

I will post the rest of the interview -without doubt one of the most memorable ones I have ever been involved with -over the coming couple of weeks. 

You can hear excerpts from Ohrwurm, Michael Faber's collaboration with Andrew Liles: here.

You can buy the album from Andrew Liles' website: here.