âMadame Bovary, câest moi,â Flaubert said. What would Will Self say of his new novel? âElaine, câest moiâ? âMadame Bovary, câest ma mereâ? Described in the blurb as âperhaps the first work... Read more »
This week, The New Yorker is announcing the longlists for the 2024 National Book Awards, beginning with Young People’s Literature. Check back at 2 P.M. for the Translated Literature list, and Thursday... Read more »
Until fairly recently, anyone asked to name Franceâs most prominent living author might well have said Michel Houellebecq, who shot to prominence in the 1990s and 00s with his novels Whatever, Atomised... Read more »
You could see Peaceâs new book as his third in a series of novels centred on football bosses â the Manageriad? â after The Damned Utd (about Brian Clough) and Red or... Read more »
Robert Harrisâs background in journalism is always evident in his books. The novels themselves are remarkably various, taking us from ancient Rome (his Cicero trilogy) to high finance (2011âs The Fear Index),... Read more »
Ferdia Lennon, 36, was born and raised in Dublin. His first novel, Glorious Exploits, set in ancient Sicily, was the winner of this yearâs Waterstones debut fiction prize. It follows two jobless... Read more »
A brilliant, imaginative woman; a mediocre man with too high an idea of himself, in need of a woman to destroy. Itâs a dynamic that goes back to George Eliotâs Middlemarch or Henry... Read more »
The fictional character Septimus Warren Smith, from Virginia Woolfâs Mrs Dalloway, is the first of many spectres to haunt the pages of Sam Saxâs incendiary, prose-poetic debut novel, Yr Dead. Midway through... Read more »
Book News: Pope Francis says future priests should read poetry and fiction
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