Grief Is The Thing With Feathers is coming to The Barbican
Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders) gives a riveting, shape-shifting performance in Enda Walsh’s adaptation of Max Porter’s award-winning novel, a heart-wrenching meditation on love, loss and…
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My Sister, The Serial Killer top pick for November’s Library Reads list
Oyinkan Braithwaite’s eagerly anticipated new novel, coming November, is the top pick for the November Library Reads List! To see the rest of the…
The Guardian: Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif review – a thrilling satire of US foreign policy
“When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every…
The Secret Barrister shortlisted for The Books Are My Bag Reader’s Award 2018
Congratulations to The Secret Barrister! The Books Are My Bag Readers Awards are one of a kind. They’re the only book awards curated by…
Ordinary People longlisted for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence
Congratulations Diana Evans! The six-title shortlist—three each for the fiction and nonfiction medals—will be announced on October 24, 2018. The two medal winners will…
Jo Baker to publish new novel with Transworld
Transworld has acquired a new, contemporary novel by Jo Baker, author of Longbourn and A Country Road, A Tree, about a female creative writing school tutor whose relationship with an…
NEW STATESMAN: The British in India offers a rich and nuanced social history of empire
This impressive book from David Gilmour, an old hand at Raj history, describes this tribe of British conquerors, administrators and merchants who lived…
The Guardian’s Top 10 books about Old Shanghai: City of Devils
City of Devils by Paul French is the true story of two men who sought wealth and fame in Shanghai while attempting to put their…
The New Yorker: Diana Evans’ Ordinary People Blends Domesticity and Celebrity, with a Gothic Twist
A character in Diana Evans’s new novel, “Ordinary People,” is reading “War and Peace.” The message is clear. Evans, the author of two previous…
New Mark Haddon novel set for May 2019
Vintage imprint Chatto & Windus will next year publish Mark Haddon’s first novel in seven years – The Porpoise, an “ambitious and dazzling” novel based…