KATE Lebo’s The Book of Difficult Fruit in VOGUE
“Pleasurable and joyful associations with fruit are bountiful. For those, I might suggest reading one of the lovely pieces online about how a bowl of cut fruit can be a type of love language for Asian mothers. Author Kate Lebo chooses instead to focus on what makes certain fruit potentially fraught subject matter in The Book of […]
Pick Your Poison: The Sweet, Sometimes Lethal Sides of Your Produce: Kate Lebo’s The Book of Difficult Fruit is reviewed in the New York Times Book Review
I’ve been thinking about how to murder a man with cherry pits. Pie, definitely. I’d pit a few pounds of cherries, then smash the pits and mix with vodka into an almondlike, but poisonous, extract. The chemical compounds in the pits would react with his stomach acid to create bootleg cyanide. It’d take, I estimate, […]
Chris Power in the Guardian: ‘You burn reality to fuel the fiction’
In an interview with the Guardian, the critic and author talks about writers, his 20-year-long fascination with Berlin, and the political manoeuvres of the Putin era. Read the full interview here.
Diana Evans interviews Thandiwe Newton for the cover of British Vogue
It’s more than 22 years since Thandiwe Newton first spoke to Diana Evans. In this interview for the May cover of British Vogue, the actor tells the writer she is a different woman – no longer simply shaped by her experiences, but inspired to live a bigger, more outspoken life because of them. Read the […]
Happy publication to THE HIGH HOUSE, Jessie Greengrass’s ‘exquisite’ second novel
The novel has also garnered wonderful quotes from Max Porter, Sigrid Nunez, Daisy Johnson and Julianne Pachico: ‘In the tradition of Lively, Hazzard, Fitzgerald, Ishiguro and Brookner, Jessie Greengrass is a master observer of of inter-human atmosphere; exquisitely good on oddity, unease, yearning and disquiet. The High House is about the great crisis of our time, but […]
Changing the conversation: Emma Dabiri in the Irish Times
Emma Dabiri, the author, historian, and TV presenter, and Hazel Chu, the Green Party politician and Lord Mayor of Dublin, both share an experience of being high-profile Irish women, but have also been subjected to Irish racism in their upbringing, and in their professional lives. Both grew up in Dublin in the 1990s, a decade […]
Bernardine Evaristo’s first non-fiction book, Manifesto, is out in October.
Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo will publish her first non-fiction book in October: Manifesto: On Never Giving Up. Bernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker win – the first by a Black woman – was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher and activist, she moved from the […]
Taran Khan’s Shadow City wins Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year
We are thrilled that Taran Khan’s first book, Shadow City, has won Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. The book takes readers on a journey through the streets of Kabul as Khan walks around the city and uncovers a place quite different from the one she anticipated.
Bernardine Evaristo’s GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER is shortlisted for the DUBLIN Literary Award 2021
The DUBLIN Literary Award is presented annually for a novel written or translated into English. Books are nominated for the award by invited public libraries in cities throughout the world, making the award unique in its coverage of international fiction. Titles are nominated on the basis of high literary merit as determined by the nominating […]
Evie Wyld’s The Bass Rock is shortlisted for The 2021 Stella Prize
The 2021 Stella Prize saw over 160 entries. Stella’s judges — Zoya Patel (Chair), Jane Harrison, Elizabeth McCarthy, Ian See and Tamara Zimet — have selected six outstanding books for the 2021 Stella Prize shortlist. We are thrilled to see Evie Wyld’s The Bass Rock make the list.