The secret lives of Katherine Mansfield
A century after the writer’s death, a new biography shows how she withstood colonial prejudice and terminal illness to produce…
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New Thinking.
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A century after the writer’s death, a new biography shows how she withstood colonial prejudice and terminal illness to produce…
ByOur choice of the year’s essential fiction and non-fiction.
ByFrom magical picture books to thrilling young adult novels, courage and joy are in abundance.
ByChristmas coming, a man and a woman in a lonely long barn expecting a child, a post-apocalyptic landscape, a journey…
ByReally, the only things separating Bob Cratchit from the average 2022 Londoner are electricity and the fact he could afford…
ByOnce, stories helped us make sense of reality, argues Peter Brooks – now they have devoured it.
ByHer friend recalls the “fiery and bewitching” founder of Virago Press.
ByA new book of pictures and drawings is an attempt to help adults recall what the world looks like to…
ByAlso featuring Bandit Country by James Conor Patterson and Looking To Sea by Lily Le Brun.
ByA streak of pure nastiness runs through the author’s anarchic, beloved children’s literature – just as it did through his…
ByThe author says she prefers to read non-fiction because she senses so many novelists holding back due to “social censure”.…
ByThe South Korean novelist on K-pop, regretting the future and escaping to another planet.
ByAlso featuring a biography of Peter Beard and White Torture by Narges Mohammadi.
ByToday’s indie bookshops are as influential in stirring up political and cultural life as those of the 1960s.
ByNatasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams’s collaboration is a restlessly inventive novel about colonial injustice and human connection.
ByThe Korean-American novelist on hate speech, cancel culture and exposing society’s unwritten codes.
ByThe 2022 Goldsmiths Prize-winning duo on Chagos, capitalism and collaborating on their mould-breaking novel Diego Garcia.
ByLiving Rooms explores what domestic spaces say about class and belonging, from chintz to cleanfluencers.
ByTikTok is having an “unprecedented” impact on publishing, but is it shaping a new wave of fiction?
ByNatasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams’s politically charged novel has won the 2022 award for mould-breaking fiction.
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