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A Long Game by Elizabeth McCracken review – here’s how to really write your novel
8+ mon, 6+ day ago (283+ words) The novelist and writing tutor delivers bracing advice that demolishes familiar ‘stick to what you know...Not your usual piece of creative writing workshop advice, but true to the particular insanity of this...
Dreaming of writing your novel this year? Rip up all the rules!
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (869+ words) It’s excellent advice for those for whom it is good advice, and, I imagine, satisfying to dispense....
Stephen Sondheim by Daniel Okrent review – a superb biography of the musical master
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1326+ words) He then gave Sondheim a piece of advice the younger man would carry close to his chest throughout his...
Poem of the week: Song by Lady Mary Chudleigh
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (238+ words) Words of stern moral advice to a besotted young man are delivered with a brisk and even sunny touch Why...
The Devil Book by Asta Olivia Nordenhof review – a Danish series that burns with purpose
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (1112+ words) This incandescent novel takes in lockdown, the devil, bad investments, erotic thrills and the deadly...that the root of Kurt’s disaffection might possibly be found in the shattering effects of a bad investment...Danish series that burns with purpose This…...
Richard Osman among authors backing call to issue library card to all UK babies
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (279+ words) She added that investment is key, and offers long-term benefits to closing opportunity gaps in communities...
‘We don’t celebrate Black creativity enough’: why the Black British book festival is bigger than ever
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (648+ words) Black British literature has always been rich, but too often it hasn’t been given the platform or investment...
Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer review – fun in the Tuscan sun
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (654+ words) The Pulitzer-winning author of Less has crafted a breezy confection of fish-out-of-water wit, insecurity and self-discovery set in an Italian paradise‘There’s a place in Italy in need of someone. Why don’t you look into that?” Inspired by his two-year…...
‘Horny wolves, eunuchs and pirates’ among Baillie Gifford prize shortlist subjects
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (740+ words) Helen Garner and Richard Holmes among authors of nonfiction books that also encompass international terrorists and ‘ghastly literary men’ “Formidable female novelists, ghastly literary men, a faith-shaken poet, eunuchs, pirates, horny wolves, international terrorists” are among the subjects covered by books…...
Lyra’s last story – exclusive extract from Philip Pullman’s final installment in The Book of Dust trilogy
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (1684+ words) Thirty years ago, The Northern Lights introduced the world to Lyra Silvertongue. Now, Pullman completes her story in The Rose Field – plus listen to an audiobook extract read by Michael Sheen She washed herself as well as she could in…...