Andrea Levy

The UK's bestselling and critically acclaimed authors discuss their new work, their ideas and being an author in the 21st century.

Andrea Levy's Small Island won the Orange Prize in 2004 and since then has been an international bestseller as well as being adapted for a major TV series.

The story of immigrants from Jamaica setting up in 1950s London has now been followed up with another exploration of Anglo Jamaican history - slavery. Razia Iqbal talks to her about the pressures of writing another book after such success, and her continued desire to chronicle the complex links between the Caribbean and the UK.