Max Porter, writer I recently read Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot. It’s one of the best novels I’ve ever read about what it means to live with others, or decide not to;... Read more »
A high-profile publishing deal for a debut crime novel has collapsed after doubts emerged over whether artificial intelligence played a role in writing it. The hotly anticipated manuscript Call Me, I’ll Hide... Read more »
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Small Birds Singing by Matthew Welton (Carcanet, £12.99)Written in unrhymed couplets that shrink and grow across the page like a concertina going through its scales, Welton’s poems focus attention on the city... Read more »
Summer is normally thought of as the time for pacy potboilers and brain-soothing page-turners – airport reads that wind up sandy and sunscreen-stained. Not so for Friedrich Merz’s holiday reading list. Germany’s... Read more »
“There’s the gush of water through the pipes when he fills a kettle,” observes Tara Selter on the 18th of November. “The sound of metal on metal when he sets the kettle... Read more »
The only named wind in the British Isles, Helm is a strong northeasterly gale that blows down the slopes of Cross Fell in the Pennines and is known for its unusual cloud... Read more »
Tomi Adeyemi, the author of Children of Blood and Bone, has spoken further on the difficult process behind adapting her novel for this big screen, calling it “the worst thing I have... Read more »
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