The Artist by Lucy Steeds has been named this year’s Waterstones book of the year. The novel, which is set in 1920s Provence and blends mystery with a love story, also took... Read more »
Kiran Desai The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny When we emptied my father’s flat after his death, a crowd descended. They rushed away the cupboards and chairs, his shirts and socks. Ragpickers... Read more »
This Year Her Present wasn’t a book —my shelves sag under the weight of volumesshe’s given me over the last two decadessince I moved from Ukraine to Ireland; wasn’t a dress —she... Read more »
More than a decade after attracting international acclaim for his debut The Boat, Nam Le has won book of the year at the NSW Literary awards for his follow-up, a book-length poem... Read more »
Book News: Sophie Elmhirst’s Maurice and Maralyn wins Nero book of the year prize
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According to new a polling by YouGov 40% of Britons have not read or listened to a book in the past year. The median British adult has read or listened to three... Read more »
Book News: PEN America report zooms in on school year 2023–2024 book bans
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A gossipy account of the lives of Roman emperors has entered the bestseller charts – 2,000 years after it was written. Sex scandals and foreign policy failures don’t only beleaguer the modern... Read more »
A new novel by Ian McEwan, which is set nearly a century in the future in a UK partly submerged by rising seas, will come out later this year. What We Can... Read more »