1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (613+ words) Wood wins the award for fiction for his "utterly immersive" novel Seascraper while Perry picks up the nonfiction prize for her memoir Death of an Ordinary Man Booker-longlisted author Benjamin Wood has won this year"s Nero book award for…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (366+ words) The footballer and author are supporting a nationwide campaign, Go All In, which aims to reverse the "worrying decline" in reading for pleasure among children in the UK Leah Williamson, Michael Morpurgo, Julia Donaldson and Richard Osman are among those…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1041+ words) With its cast of thinkers, gamers and artists, this romp across Europe explores our desire to define reality " even as it slips from our intellectual graspJoanna Kavenna's two decades as'a writer have seen her beat a gorgeously unconventional path through…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (394+ words) From an almost whimsical beginning, these verses on wishing to overcome mortality grow lyrical and deeply moving If there were dreams to sell. What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (842+ words) This poignant debut about two strangers who fall in love offers a powerful portrait of the lived realities of immigrants in Britain'Love is not an easy thing " It's'both the disease and the medicine," a character says in Manish Chauhan's meditation…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (81+ words) Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends three books to read before their film adaptation releases this year. new video loaded: Read These 3 Books Before Watching the Movie More in Books " The Evolution of the…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (283+ words) The novelist and writing tutor delivers bracing advice that demolishes familiar "stick to what you know" nostrums Trope, POV, backstory, character arc. In the 30 years since I was'a'student of that benign, pipe-smoking, elbow-patched man of'letters Malcolm Bradbury, the private'language of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (751+ words) Drawing on his own near-death experience, the author finds a powerful intensity in this tale of a young man's convalescence in a Cornish village'I had to pick through the wreckage, blind at first. I had to find all the pieces…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (750+ words) This quietly satirical speculative novel tells a story of metamorphosis, but feels insulated from real ecological crisisIn the book-length essay Death By'Landscape, Elvia Wilk gives a potted history of fiction in which humans turn into plants. There is Daphne, in…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (327+ words) A faultless lyric from 1887 mourns what seems to be repressed gay love But all that now is over. Dreamers of dreams shall not in me discover Fallen remembrances of Holy Land; Looks in mine eyes, that seem to understand A…...