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I'm thrilled and honoured to have been asked to be the guest adjudicator in the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award.
We live in a tall thin house in Notting Hill and my writing room is down in the basement, dark and deep, with bars on the windows - my own personal dungeon. I have taken the photo very close in out of shame at the general untidiness. The desk is nothing like as well organised...
'Ghostwritten' is set in present day Cornwall and on Java during World War 2. As with Tenko and The Railway Man it's a story of the struggle to survive - and to retain one's humanity - in the most difficult conditions a human can face...
Isabel Wolff's new novel, Ghostwritten, is set on Java during the Japanese invasion. She chooses here five favourite novels set in the Far East...
People often ask me how to how to get published. So here, for any aspiring writers out there is the advice I usually give. First of all, ask yourself if you really are the sort of person who's going to write. For example, do you have a running commentary going through your head, like a film script..
I read a lot and always evangelise about anything which has made an enduring impression on me and so I'd like to recommend these ten wonderful books to you.
Where do you think David Cameron bought his Christmas wrapping paper this year? His wife's Bond Street stationers, perhaps? Or some achingly fashionable designer boutique? Not exactly.
Wolff is everything journalists love. She's bubbly, hysterical, totally radio-ready and always with a cracking good line...