Writer Roden has more aptly been described as an historian and a poet of food, says Joe McNamee

Quiet

Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist

KJERSTI studied mathematics, and became a computer engineer. Then she became ill, and moved home to recover. Lying in bed, she started to write about an old woman on post-it notes. Then she turned the notes into a novel.

BONO has brushed aside his music career and drawn inspiration from a classic children’s tale in his latest work.