‘Can literature be a tool to encourage something better – creating eco-topia on the page, so it...
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My sister Lucina Prestige, who has died aged 80, was a founder of Renaissance Press, which published...
A Particularly Nasty Case by Adam Kay (Orion, £20) The first novel for adults from the author...
Richard Lloyd Parry, a longtime foreign correspondent whose experiences of war and regime change are recorded in...
Martin Cruz Smith (Obituary, 31 July) was clearly a novelist who did his research, sometimes to disconcerting...
The second instalment of David Day’s biography of Bob Hawke, which chronicles the public and private lives...
Set in 19th-century Òsogùn in what is now Nigeria, Yorùbá Boy Running opens with 13-year-old Àjàyí reporting...
The more academia has broken your heart, the more you’ll love RF Kuang’s new novel. Katabasis knows...
The next manuscript by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh will not be read for 89 years, as he...
The American author Louis Sachar’s most celebrated book, 1998’s YA novel Holes, was a huge word-of-mouth success...
My first and only experience with a Ouija board occurred when I was 11, at a friend’s...
I once entered a short story competition in the Guardian, judged by you, but failed. Is it...
When the title of Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir, Frankly, was first announced, I had my doubts. Partly, of...
Jonathan Mahler didn’t plan to publish his new book about New York City from 1986 to 1990,...
AC Benson is remembered today, if at all, for having edited three volumes of Queen Victoria’s letters...
Ten authors nominated for this year’s Polari prizes, a set of UK awards celebrating LGBTQ+ literature, have...
Jon Lee Anderson is “not done with Afghanistan”, despite having reported on it for more than 40...
Autumn (after John Keats) The fallen yellow leaves now oftenerflare red. Embers. Blown-up chilli-flakes.The burning of the...
Several years have passed since Michael Crummey’s last novel The Innocents was published in the UK in...
If you’re a millennial or millennial-adjacent, you probably grew up being chastised for using the word “like”...
