Q&A

A devastating condition left Susannah Cahalan in a hospital bed, unable to speak or move. In her riveting new memoir, she explores what went so wrong.

Writer Barbara Mutch initially took the self-publishing route with her debut novel about the close friendship between a white woman and her housemaid's daughter in South Africa.

At 24, Shani Boianjiu was one of the youngest recipients of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award. Her debut novel wowed us with its exhilarating, assured voice and its fresh stories about three young women who, on the cusp of adulthood, are thrust into compulsory service in the Israeli military.

Helen Humphreys' latest novel, The Reinvention of Love, is being released this week in paperback. We've asked the author to answer the ten questions that she uses to develop the main characters of her fiction writing.

Author Rachel Joyce talks to Chatelaine about her novel about a man who one day sets off on an entirely unexpected journey to help a friend dying of cancer. The novel, Joyce’s first, has its roots in her background as a writer of radio plays. She discusses how that career informed the novel, how her father – and others – shaped the character of Harold, and how she balances a busy life as a mother of four children with her writing.