Richard Hammond, Patrick Rothfuss and more...

• Patrick Rothfuss talks about his creation of a realistic university world in The Name of the Wind
• Richard Hammond talks about his autobiography: On the Edge

1. group A: Charlotte Church
2. group B Carol Drinkwater
3. group D: Richard Hammond
4. group D: Erica James
5. group B:Dave Pelzer
6. group B: Ian Rankin
7. group B: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
8. group A: Francesca Simon
9. group A: Trinny and Susannah

• Ian Rankin's first stand-alone thriller for over a decade
• Tired of how you look? Style experts Trinny and Susannah show you how to get out of the rut of dressing the same way...
• Dazzling entertainment, seamless storytelling - the fifth adventure in Torak's quest to vanquish the terrifying Soul-Eaters
• The new paperback from the bestselling author of the Richard and Judy selected Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
• Venice and vampires. The Shadow Queen has retreated to her lair to gather her strength and recruit a new army of the Undead for a final confrontation
• Adventures with Evel, Oliver, and the Vice-President of Botswana

• Richard Hammond As You Do trailer scriptHello. I'm Richard Hammond. Firstly a big thank you if you bought my book On the Edge last year. In fact it ended up being the biggest selling biography of the year. My wife, Mindy and I wrote it together to tell the story of how two people came through an ordeal and emerged stronger, as individuals and as a team...
  by Richard Hammond
• Who am weEver seen a two-headed writer? No? Well, step this way. Annie Sanders is probably the closest youll ever get. Yes, were actually two people. And not in the way that requires medication. Or at least not often. Annie Sanders is...
  by Annie Sanders
• The ups and downs of writingThere are up moments and down moments in a writers lifecycle and they usually come pretty close on each others heels. A couple of weeks ago, with time running out and a quarter of a book still to write, I was not impressed with the business of being a writer... I am left pondering the nature of writing and attempting to be a writer...
  by Marcus Sedgwick
• How to Cope with the End of the WorldRecently I was invited onto BBC Radio 4’s Material World to discuss my new novel Flood. Preparing for the show, the researcher asked me if I was concerned about causing panic what if people took my depiction of a world-drowning flood too seriously? Its not a foolish question. A disaster novel like Flood works precisely because theres some plausibility behind it...
  by Stephen Baxter
• Creating Cities at the End of Time
  For decades, I’ve been haunted by William Hope Hodgson and his stories, ever since I first read The House on the Borderland in an Ace paperback edition in 1964 or 1965. Anyone who’s familiar with my own Dead Lines knows that I love ghost stories, but Hodgson went well beyond simple spooks and scares - he tapped into something at once supernatural and cosmically scientific, combining the far-future vision of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine with...by Greg Bear

Our bestselling authors include Ian Rankin and Harlan Coben in the crime arena, Maeve Binchy and Kate Mosse on the fiction side, Michael Palin and Richard Hammond in non-fiction, cutting- edge SF and fantasy authors Robert Rankin and Stephen Baxter and children's series such as Horrid Henry and Charmseekers.