The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Featured In The Literary Tube Map of London
In The Book, an online personalised book retailer, has released a literary tube map of London which replaces famous stations with outstanding pieces of London’s literature.The map was designed to act as a definitive virtual book tour of London for both locals and tourists. Mark Haddon’s ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ […]
Queer Intentions: Amelia Abraham’s Interview with Them
In Queer Intentions, Amelia Abraham travels around the world to shed light on the mainstreaming of LGBTQ+ culture, queer privilege, and more.
Everything You Ever Wanted featured on The Telegraph’s ‘What To Read’
How would a bunch of anxious millennials colonise a brave new world?
Mary Jean Chan’s ‘The Window’ Featured as The Guardian’s Poem of the Month
Once in a lifetime, you will gesture at an open window, tell the one who detests the queerness in you that dead daughters do not disappoint, free your sore knees from inching towards a kind of reprieve, declare yourself genderless as hawk or sparrow: an encumbered body let loose from its cage. You […]
Jung Chang brings the modern fairytale of the Soong sisters to a global audience
The modern fairytale of the Soong sisters is well known across China. Bestselling author Jung Chang looks set to bring the sisters’ stories to a global audience. The Book seller calls Jung Chang’s new book ‘utterly engrossing…it stars a trio of extraordinary women, each of whom enjoyed tremendous privilege and fame, but also endured contact attached […]
Three AAA Authors Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019
The longlist, or ‘Booker Dozen’, for the 2019 Booker Prize is announced today. This year’s longlist of 13 books was selected by a panel of five judges: founder and director of Hay Festival Peter Florence (Chair); former fiction publisher and editor Liz Calder; novelist, essayist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo; writer, broadcaster and former barrister Afua Hirsch; and concert pianist, conductor […]
How it feels to… survive heart surgery, by novelist Mark Haddon
Earlier this year, I found myself in a bed in the cardiology department at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, wired up to a heart monitor, waiting for a double heart bypass. I’m 56, I’ve been a vegetarian for decades and I like few things more than running for two hours through unpeopled […]
Everything You Ever Wanted by Luiza Sauma “deserves to be on every prize longlist”: A Review
How far would you go to escape your life? Another city? Another country? Another planet? Iris Cohen, the heroine of Luiza Sauma’s absorbing and ambitious second novel, Everything You Ever Wanted, chooses the last of these options, making it through the recruitment process to become one of 100 “lucky” people who will forge a new life […]
Max Porter’s Lanny Is a Dark, Wonderfully Tactile Reimagining of the Folktale
One of the particular pleasures of a folktale is discovering the story’s entryway to magic. In Max Porter’s beautiful, imaginative novella “Grief Is the Thing with Feathers,” it is mourning. In his whimsical follow-up, “Lanny,” which came out in May, it’s the natural world and a child’s unique sense of wonder. “Lanny” is the story […]
Vicky Spratt’s Life For Rent: Is Your Landlord Responsible for Fixing Mould in Your Flat?
Housing journalist Vicky Spratt is here to answer all your burning, rental-based questions in our new advice column Life For Rent. My whole flat is covered in mould. The bathroom ceiling. The window sills. The bedroom walls. I probably have spores growing inside of me right now, as I type this, but unfortunately I can’t […]