Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo for the Guardian Review

Chidera Eggerue, AKA The Slumflower, is a social media star, south-east London homegirl and feminist. She first came to prominence in 2017 when she created the hashtag #SaggyBoobsMatter on Twitter in order to promote the body-positive message that women’s breasts and bodies are fine just as they are. It’s an important idea and antithetical to […]

Booker Winner Bernardine Evaristo on breaking the rules

It was clear that things were not going to plan when, just half an hour before the guests began to arrive, the judges of this year’s Booker prize had yet to make a decision. Five hours after they had begun their deliberations, they finally emerged in a state of “joyful mutiny” to announce that they had decided […]

JUNG CHANG INTERVIEWED IN THE OBSERVER ON PUBLICATION OF Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

Jung Chang was born in China in 1952 and came to Britain in 1978. She is the author of Wild Swans, Mao: The Unknown Story (with her husband, the historian Jon Halliday) and Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 15m copies outside mainland […]

Moore Sex, Moore Violence – Susanna Moore’s In the Cut reviewed in The Metro

  Susanna Moore’s cult 1995 novel In The Cut, reissued this month, is not a novel to read alone at night. Within its first few chapters an actress has been found dead, her throat cut and her limbs ‘disarticulated’, to use the preferred adjective of Jimmy Malloy, the brutish NYPD detective in charge. Click here […]

FUNMI FETTO ON HER NEW BOOK PALETTE IN STELLA MAGAZINE

As a six-year-old, I wanted Janet Jackson’s hair. It was straight. Mine was not. I  imagined hers to be beautifully soft. Mine looked stiff. I coveted the malleability of hers – hair that moved, hair that looked like it grew down as opposed to up and out. One day I unravelled my freshly braided hair and doused […]

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo review — well-placed to win the Booker

In its 50-year history, the Booker Prize has never been won by a black woman. That could change this month if Bernardine Evaristo, the 60-year-old British-Nigerian writer, wins the award for Girl, Woman, Other. It’s a triumphantly wide-ranging novel, told in a hybrid of prose and poetry, about the struggles, longings, conflicts and betrayals of […]