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A Queer Inheritance by Michael Hall review – the National Trust’s LGBTQ history revealed
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (1082+ words) It’s recently been accused of turning ‘woke’ – but the institution has been gay since the beginning, argues this deeply researched bookWhen it emerged that the National Trust had put vegan scones on the menu, it was seized on by some…...
‘There’s a sense of our freedoms becoming vulnerable’: novelist Alan Hollinghurst
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (256+ words) A knighthood, a lifetime achievement award and a hit theatre production of The Line of Beauty… the author on a year of personal success and political change Win, like Guest and like Hollinghurst himself, is an only child, and I…...
Richard Osman among authors backing call to issue library card to all UK babies
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (279+ words) The proposal, supported by Kate Mosse and Philip Pullman, aims to make public library membership a national birthright Richard Osman, Kate Mosse and Sir Philip Pullman are among authors calling for all babies to automatically receive a library card at…...
Jonathan Coe: ‘I was a Tory until I read Tony Benn’
9+ mon, 1+ day ago (514+ words) The author on getting hooked on Flann O’Brien, reassessing Kingsley Amis, and why his grandfather was outraged by Watership Down My earliest reading memory Not my earliest reading memory, exactly, but my earliest memory of reading with avid enjoyment: The…...
Elif Shafak named new president of the Royal Society of Literature
9+ mon, 4+ day ago (246+ words) The British-Turkish writer was elected after a vote among the society’s fellows, with outgoing president Bernardine Evaristo describing her selection as ‘terrifically inspired’ Novelist Elif Shafak has been named the new president of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL), taking…...
Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (565+ words) Author tells high court her public support for group means her books could disappear from UK stores altogether The Irish author Sally Rooney has told the high court she is highly unlikely to be able to publish new work in…...
Sara Pascoe’s novel wins inaugural Jilly Cooper award
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (481+ words) Weirdo, the comedian’s ‘daring look at young womanhood’, is the first winner of new honour named after the Riders novelist, adding to the Comedy women in print prizes Sara Pascoe has won the inaugural Jilly Cooper award at the 2025 Comedy…...
A former Tory councillor tried to ban my novel Pigeon English. Why should pupils suffer because of him?
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (1506+ words) My book, which draws on my upbringing on a diverse and deprived Luton council estate, has been used as a GCSE text. But one man objected to its profane language and depictions of violence and sexual behaviourBack in September, in…...
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan review – the limits of liberalism
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (1179+ words) A century from now, a literature scholar pieces together a picture of our times in a novel that quietly compels us to consider the moral consequences of global catastropheThe sheer Englishness of Ian McEwan’s fiction may not be fully visible…...