Books by Xan Brooks
Xan Brooks is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He was one of the founding editorial team at the Big Issue magazine and spent 15-years as a writer and associate editor at The Guardian. His debut, The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times, was listed for the Costa First Novel Award, the Author’s Club Award, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Walter Scott Prize.
Interviews with Xan Brooks
The Best Historical Fiction Set in the American South, recommended by Xan Brooks
The ‘Deep’ South is a complicated place with a complicated history. But that’s what makes it such an effective literary setting, says Xan Brooks—author of The Catchers, a story of Blues music and exploitation that unfolds in the Mississippi Delta. Here he recommends some of the best historical fiction set in the American South, including novels by Flannery O’Connor and Mark Twain.
