Rosie Goldsmith interviews LAURA DOCKRILL

with 20 minutes to go before her amazing SOUTHBANK CENTRE book launch show, Laura hasn’t yet got her toenails done or her outfit on… what will happen next?

LAURA DOCKRILL ROCKS

Rosie chats with Laura Dockrill fans
Laura Dockrill performs ‘Heaven Knows’
Click on the 2 audio links above and check out our exclusive London Literature Festival Laura Dockrill audio-visual package…And watch my pre-show video interview with Laura also on this site!
LAURA DOCKRILL ROCKS – BY ROSIE GOLDSMITH
Laura Dockrill – aka ‘Dockers’ – is known to [...]

‘We Are All Made Of Glue’

Marina Lewicka launches ‘We All Made of Glue’
MARINA LEWYCKA launches her new novel at London Literature Festival 2009
We had a jolly literary lunch this weekend when Marina Lewykca joined me to launch her third novel ‘We are All Made of Glue” (there are lots of references to glue and adhesives!).
We chatted about her immigrant life [...]

Qaisra Shahraz at London Literature Festival

Qaisra Shahraz at London Literature Festival
On Saturday last, in the beautiful Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, against a filmic background of the London Eye and the enormous purple Udderbelly (!), I had the pleasure of introducing the British-Pakistani writer Qaisra Shahraz to a lunchtime literary audience. Qaisra has been writing fiction since [...]

Islands according to Peter Conrad

Peter Conrad was interviewed by Rosie Goldsmith on Friday evening about his latest book ‘Islands’ and how he sees himself as an Island. For the first ten minutes I watched Rosie Goldsmith struggle to try and pull something positive from Conrad’s mind however, he spoke in a gloomy manner for at least a quarter of an [...]

Rosie Goldsmith in conversation with JOHN FREEMAN, editor of GRANTA

Following a thrilling discussion with AL Kennedy, Adam Thirlwell and Erica Wagner, John Freeman concluded that computers have made writing easier, but reading harder.
Watch the interview to find out more about the future of literary journals and his vision for GRANTA…

And now for something slightly silly…

It’s not often that a man of my advancing years gets the opportunity to go all quivery of knee but last night was onesuch, You see, I got to meet a real-life star of the airwaves, Bidisha.
Her BBC World Service programme The Word has a global listenership of 95 million people. Yes you did read [...]

Rosie Goldsmith Interviews SARAH DUNANT

Novelist Sarah Dunant launched her exciting new novel, “Sacred Hearts”, at The Southbank Centre’s Literature Festival.
This wonderful page-turning read with a serious message, set in a convent in 16th century Ferrara, is the third in Sarah’s trilogy of novels about women in that period. Rosie Goldsmith interviews Sarah Dunant just before her performance – [...]