My generation of writers is dying. Of Granta’s fabled list of 20 Best of Young British Novelists, 1983, six are gone, including our most princely satirist, Martin Amis. We’re all approaching birthdays where the... Read more »
CD Rose has won the 2025 Goldsmiths prize for his novel We Live Here Now, praised by judges as “hilarious and deeply haunting”. The £10,000 award, now in its 13th year, honours... Read more »
A celebrated Palestinian author who was freed last month after more than 32 years in Israeli prisons has said the use of torture increased dramatically during his last two years of captivity... Read more »
Things are falling apart in the final volume of The Book of Dust, the second of Philip Pullman’s magisterial trilogies set in a world that appears, here more than ever, as a charged and... Read more »
Rose Tremain, 80, published her first novel in 1976 and has gone on to become one of her generationâs most admired talents, garnering numerous literary accolades along with a damehood in 2020.... Read more »