The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
More and more writers are publishing newsletters – but which are worth your time? From Margaret Atwood to Hanif Kureishi, George Saunders to Miranda July, here’s our guide to the bestA peculiar aspect of the dawning of the digital age is that it has, in some respects, ret...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Here and Beyond by Hal LaCroix; One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford; I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman; The Reaper by Jackson P Brown...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
The author on Anthony Trollope, Andrew Miller, and why she sided with 19th-century coal minersMy earliest reading memory
I have the fuzziest memory of an illustrated Grimms’ fairy tale called Jorinde and Joringel from the t...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
A guide to the Pulitzer-winning novelist’s tales of small-town life, family secrets, and fraught relationshipsAmerican author Elizabeth Strout has captured millions of readers’ imaginations with her small-town stories of ordinary people with rich inner lives. Her novels –...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
Humanity’s ancient relationship with bees is tracked from our earliest times through a history of ‘woman’s work’ to our collective peril todayCuevas de la Araña (Spider Caves), Valencia, Spain, circa 6,000 BCE ...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
This impeccably sourced account of the secretive agency during a period of global turmoil deserves a PulitzerIn 1976 when we were both based in Brussels, my BBC mentor, the great Charles Wheeler, came back to the office from a grand US embassy party one evening and remark...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
Judges praised the Sudanese author for centring Muslim women, describing her writing as “a balm, a shelter, and an inspiration”Leila Aboulela has won this year’s PEN Pinter prize for her writing on migration, faith and the lives of women.The prize is aw...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
A mysterious illness sweeps through an isolated girls’ boarding school, in a work brimming with horror, humour and hysteriaEven if it wasn’t perched on a cliff on the south coast, the position of St Anne’s, Eastbourne – the decaying girls’ school that is the setting for R...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
This brilliant short-story collection confronts the knotty truths of Northern Ireland’s bloody pastThe literature of the Troubles is a rich one, from Seamus Heaney’s ...
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