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Novel about ‘Disneyfication’ of nature wins climate fiction prize
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (332+ words) Hum, Helen Phillips’ third novel, featuring a woman whose job is taken by a humanoid robot, is a terrifying look into a future where AI rules and nature is scarce A novel featuring a protagonist whose job is taken by…...
Brooke Averick's First Novel Brings Romance Into A New Era
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (694+ words) “Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It” combines nostalgia for early-2000s rom-coms with a contemporary exploration of mental health. The vulnerable scenes were really rewarding for me because I didn't think that I could do them. I am someone who deals with…...
People Are Sharing The Most Underrated Books They’ve Ever Read, And I’m Adding Each And Every One Of These To My Reading List
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (301+ words) “I know nobody else who has ever read this one, and everyone really should.”...
Frank Cottrell-Boyce calls for children’s reading to be treated as a ‘right’, in final laureate lecture
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (531+ words) Speaking at the Royal Institution, the author and screenwriter linked falling shared reading rates to poverty, housing insecurity and social media Frank Cottrell-Boyce has urged policymakers to treat children’s reading as a “right” rather than a parental duty, warning that…...
John of John by Douglas Stuart review – will a father and son come out to each other?
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (1082+ words) The Booker winner’s epic tale of gay love and loneliness in the Hebrides charts an uneasy homecoming against a backdrop of repressionThere’s a common greeting in the Outer Hebrides: the lineage-establishing “Who do you belong to?” By the time this…...
Solace House by Will Maclean review – immensely fun gothic horror with a psychedelic twist
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (913+ words) A dead poet’s cluttered mansion is the setting for a heady brew of magic, mystery and mushrooms“Man,” says one of Will Maclean’s characters on catching sight for the first time of the titular Solace House. “Gothic always tries too…...
What's the BEST book you've ever read?
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (15+ words) I’m talking “stay-up-until-3-am-because-you-can’t-stop-reading” books....
Zadie Smith: ‘I don’t know when I read men any more’
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (340+ words) At a talk on her latest essay collection, Dead and Alive, Smith said she ‘sometimes’ reads male novelists, but more often seeks the wisdom of older female writers like Helen Garner “I don’t know when I read men any more…...
The Body Builders by Albertine Clarke review – a compelling debut of mental meltdown
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1026+ words) A young woman’s dissociation from reality and her road to recovery are vividly rendered in this striking novel Meet Ada, the anguished young narrator of 26-year-old Albertine Clarke’s radically strange and engrossing debut novel. Adrift in London, Ada occupies herself…...
See You on the Other Side by Jay McInerney review – the clumsy finale of a classic New York series
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (206+ words) The bright young things of 1992’s Brightness Falls are now in their 60s in this verbose, clunky novel that seems more interested in lifestyle than inner lives At its best, See You on the Other Side offers the reader the chatty,…...