Short story collection All Around the World will be available for £1 in bid to widen access to quality fiction
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How did this novel about food win a Booker Prize this year? ⊕⊕
Taiwan Travelogue is the first novel translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the prestigious award.
24 days ago
Who claimed ‘the most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald’s’? The Saturday quiz ⊕⊕
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From Blue Sharks and White Wolves to the Zhurong vehicle, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
1 Where did the Zhurong vehicle take a selfie in 2021?
2 Which artist claimed “the most beautiful th…
26 days ago
Boy, three, died after being struck by van in front of his mother and siblings while delivering church leaflets, inquest hears ⊖
Gideon Booker was struck by a van on April 11 last year after momentarily stepping away from his family while his mother, Rebecca Booker, had her back turned.
29 days ago
John of John by Douglas Stuart review – will a father and son come out to each other? ○
The Booker winner’s epic tale of gay love and loneliness in the Hebrides charts an uneasy homecoming against a backdrop of repression
There’s a common greeting in the Outer Hebrides: the lineage-estab…
39 days ago
A Rising of the Lights by Steve Toltz review – a darkly funny take on the male loneliness epidemic ⊕
A miserable misogynist is on a quest for redemption in Toltz’s fourth novel, which fizzes with dynamic prose but struggles to engender empathy for its protagonist
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43 days ago
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout review – readers will delight in these new characters ⊕⊕
The Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton author branches out with the tale of a Massachusetts teacher haunted by trauma
The American author Elizabeth Strout famously persisted throughout years of rejectio…
50 days ago
From Manifesto to Mr Loverman: Bernardine Evaristo’s best books – ranked! ⊕⊕
From the secret gay life of a British-Caribbean man to that controversial shared Booker win, the author has blazed a trail across the literary landscape. Here are seven of her top titles
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65 days ago
Life of Pi author Yann Martel: ‘I thought the Iliad was a book for old farts… then I started getting ideas’ ⊕
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The best-selling novelist explains why his new retelling of Homer’s epic offers the ideal antidote to the age of Trump
Yann Martel’s writing studio, where he sits while we talk over Zoom, is a mere 10…
85 days ago
Cory Booker calls both parties ‘feckless’ for ceding war powers to Trump ⊖
Democrat says Congress ‘doing nothing’ may embolden president to attack countries such as Cuba and North Korea
Democratic US senator Cory Booker has criticized both his own political party as well as …