The 2019 Goldsmiths shortlist in reviews
Before the announcement of the winner this evening, read our verdict on the six books shortlisted for this year's prize.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
Before the announcement of the winner this evening, read our verdict on the six books shortlisted for this year's prize.
ByLucy Ellmann has been awarded this year’s Goldsmiths Prize, in association with the New Statesman, for her 1,000-page novel Ducks,…
ByIsabel Waidner on their Goldsmiths-shortlisted novel We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff, marginalised writers, and the Isle of Wight.
ByMark Haddon on his Goldsmiths-shortlisted novel The Porpoise, the beauty of Ordnance Survey maps, and why Shakespeare’s Pericles is “a pretty dreadful…
ByLucy Ellmann on her Goldsmiths Prize-winning novel Ducks, Newburyport, the female experience and scaring “the shit out of” her readers.
ByHow Margaret Thatcher consolidated her power – not thanks to the Falklands War, but because of an opposition that underestimated…
ByThe prose in The Offing is baroque and proudly old-fashioned, the antithesis of Sally Rooney-style sparseness.
ByThe pop icon’s unfinished autobiography offers glimpses of his childlike imagination.
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