In our conversations and emails, his determination to not let the fatwa define him has been evidentThat Salman Rushdie was nearly murdered at an event in New York while talking about whether the United States was a safe haven for exiled writers is an irony he’d have rejected as too far-fetched... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-08-14 12:39:00 UTC ]
Colum McCann, Jonathan Safran Foer and Hadley Freeman are among seven writers shortlisted for the Wingate Literary Prize Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-28 04:06:51 UTC ]
This is Personal Space: The Memoir Show, with Sari Botton. On this episode, Botton talks to Hadley Freeman about her fourth book, House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family, a memoir and family Holocaust history published by Simon & Schuster. Botton and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-09 17:00:34 UTC ]
Technology has liberated the spread of information and enabled like-minded people to come together to share their views. But it can make them harder to argue with tooWhen researching my book Wellmania (available in all good book shops, and some bad ones), I spent many months immersed in online... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors showed their support for Watermark Books in Kings Cross station, at a send-off event last night (24th June) ahead of the shop's closure at the end of July. Paula Hawkins, Hadley Freeman, Polly Samson, Sadie Jones, Jason Hewitt and Antonia Honeywell were among those paying tribute to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
We should resist the easy cynicism that has greeted the sudden emergence of Go Set a WatchmanFew 88-year-old one-hit wonders could expect more than a shrug if they announced they were producing their second piece of work in 55 years. But news that Harper Lee is publishing what is essentially a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]