Sally Rooney on sex, power and the art of being normal
The 27-year-old Booker-nominated author, hailed as the voice of millennial fiction, discusses the success of her second novel, Normal People.
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The 27-year-old Booker-nominated author, hailed as the voice of millennial fiction, discusses the success of her second novel, Normal People.
ByMelissa Harrison combines an eye for detail and an ear for prose with a skill for constructing a plot.
ByEven if Pat Barker’s book isn’t a great one, it is perhaps a necessary one.
ByThe author clearly amuses herself with the sheer implausibility and theatricality of the world she describes.
ByHistorian David Gilmour is interested in the motives and identities of individuals.
ByIsabel Hardman’s book explores some of the fiddly, complicated and frankly unbelievable ways in which our political system works.
ByThe former Guardian editor retired in 2015 but his story has, in his own words, “no ending, happy or otherwise”.
ByDiarmaid MacCulloch’s superb biography explores the motives of Henry VIII’s right-hand man.
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