No plot, no conflict, no drama: How Samantha Harvey crafted an unlikely Booker Prize winner
There is no way Samantha Harvey would ever head into space. “I am so spectacularly not an astronaut,” she said, the day after ...
How astronauts on the space station inspired an insomniac writer
There is no way Samantha Harvey would ever head into space. “I am so spectacularly not an astronaut,” she said, the day after ...
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The five best classic novels, according to Percival Everett
The writer whose own books are modern literary classics reveals the great works that inspired him ...
10 Nobel Prize-Winning Books That Deserve a Permanent Spot on Your Shelf
Discover 10 Nobel Prize-winning books that belong on your shelf. These masterpieces offer powerful storytelling, deep themes, ...
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Sarah Hall Joins Manchester's Centre For New Writing
Internationally acclaimed novelist and short story writer Sarah Hall has joined The University of Manchester as a Professor ...
Banu Mushtaq: “My feminism seeps into the language that I use
The lawyer and activist on Heart Lamp, her collection of stories, translated from the Kannada original by Deepa Bhasthi, that ...
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From Nobel laureates to Booker Prize winners, women writers are commanding the world stage
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s recent win of the 2025 Holberg Prize has once again highlighted the contributions of women in ...
Rags-to-riches hero or villainous torturer? The truth about Henry VIII's scheming right-hand man Thomas Cromwell
With her Wolf Hall books, novelist Hilary Mantel made Tudor bad guy Thomas Cromwell sympathetic. But as a new TV adaptation ...
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Book review: A salacious tale of murder on the border of fact and fiction
Author Eoin McNamee says there has always been blood on the floor in his books but 'this time some of the blood is mine' ...