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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
Three of the Best
Three Aitken Alexander authors have been chosen by the ipaper as three of the best books published this year so far:- FICTION Girl, Woman,…
Max Porter’s ‘truly unforgettable’ book Lanny pushes the boundaries of storytelling
Lanny, the title character of the stunning new novel from English writer Max Porter, is a special boy. Eleven years old, he is…
Aitken Alexander represent 4 authors on the Gordon Burn Prize 2019 Shortlist chosen for their ‘Fearless and uncompromising’ books
The shortlist has been announced for the seventh annual Gordon Burn Prize. Ten years on from the death of writer Gordon Burn, whose work…
Tim Lott: What caused Britain’s national nervous breakdown?
Between 2000 and the 2008 financial crash, tech’s brave new world unleashed changes that were meant to make us happier When did our country…
Max Porter on the Between the Covers podcast
Click here to have a listen. “In Lanny Max Porter has expanded on his innovative hybrid mode while remaining faithful to our species-wide tradition of storytelling…