Jane Gardam, who has died aged 96, was such an exuberant, inventive writer. It’s the sheer energy of the voice you notice first, picking up one of her books from the shelf;... Read more »
Anne Enright. Photograph: Patrick Bolger/The Observer Anne Enright: âShe was all in, every timeâ OâBrien blew open the possibilities for Irish fiction, not because of the taboos she broke but because she... Read more »
It is quite rare to find a writer like Lynne Reid Banks, who tries so many different subjects, and so many different ways of writing. The author of The L-Shaped Room and... Read more »
The ambition to create is indistinguishable from the fear, verging sometimes on conviction, that you can never do so. Glück’s genius as a poet was reflected in her keen understanding that the... Read more »