Markus Zusak, author of the beloved and acclaimed The Book Thief, makes his long-awaited return with a profoundly heartfelt and inventive novel about a family held together by stories, and a young life caught in the current: a boy in search of greatness, as a cure for a painful past. Bridge of Clay, according to the Guardian, is a ‘brilliantly illuminated follow-up’ that is ‘affirmatively full of life’. Zusak talks with writer and editor Liz Grant about his work and glittering career.