News & Events

Charlotte's essay about Elizabeth Taylor's wonderful novel The Wedding Group appeared in the Guardian in November; it is also being published as the introduction to Virago's reissue of the novel.

Guardian Writers' Rooms
Read about where Charlotte writes here

Powell's Books
Read Charlotte's essay on Powells.com about her U.S. Book tour here

Books of the year
When We Were Bad was chosen as one of the Observer's Ten Best Novels of 2008 by Alex Clark, the Guardian's Best Summer Fiction by Justine Jordan, the Sunday Times's Best Summer Fiction, Helen Simpson's Best Summer Fiction in the New Statesman and as one of Philip Hensher's Books of the Year in the Spectator.

25 authors of the future
Charlotte was among Waterstone's '25 Authors for the Future' - twenty-five writers "predicted to keep us entertained, enthralled and informed over the next 25 years'.  Publishers, editors and agents were asked to select those writers whom they believed would go on to produce the 'most impressive body of work over the next quarter century'.  Read More

Forty under 40
Charlotte was been chosen by Harper's Bazaar as one of their "40 under 40: the household names of the future…a lasting literary talent. Hailed as a new star of writing well before her first novel was published, Mendelson has risen above the hype to forge a substantial career...We think Mendelson is ready to join Zadie Smith and David Mitchell in Brit's big league"

Interviews

'I wasn't posh and I wasn't confident, and I was really hideous' Charlotte talks to Aida Edemariam
Guardian

Charlotte interviewed on AfterEllen.com

'How we met: Charlotte Mendelson and Baroness Julia Neuberger in Independent on Sunday

Click Here to read Charlotte's interview with Benedicte Page in The Bookseller

Charlotte on familial torture in Libertas

Meet the Author: A video of Charlotte talking about When We Were Bad