Joe Dunthorne: Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish is a children’s story fit for our era of climate crisis
When I first picked up this book again after many years, I remembered it only as a fun story about…
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Melissa Harrison: Thanks to The Little Grey Men, I grew up in love with a vision of England I couldn’t find anywhere
A fantasy story about the last gnomes in Warwickshire, it’s a richly detailed, luminous love letter to the English countryside.
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Frank Cottrell Boyce: It’s hard to overestimate the impact Moominland Midwinter had on me
I curled up on the big chair ready for more stories about these jolly trolls with their magic hats and…
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Claire Tomalin: Beatrix Potter’s Tom Kitten has everything a good story should have
The first book I remember owning was given to me in 1938 by a nurse in the Homeopathic Hospital.
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Howard Jacobson: How Gulliver’s Travels gave me a taste for satire
I didn’t fully understand Jonathan Swift’s epic at nine years old – that was why reading it made me feel…
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“True cinema trusts in images”: Elena Ferrante on Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter
The Italian novelist considers the new adaptation of her dark seaside tale.
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The New Statesman’s best books of 2021
The year's essential reading in 20 titles.
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The best children’s books for Christmas 2021
There’s danger, delight and magic in the best children’s books of the festive season.
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