More heartache than Hamnet?: Maggie O’Farrell’s best books – ranked! ⊕⊕
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As her Women’s prize-winning novel heads to the Oscars, we rate the author’s best work – from tales of new motherhood to a life-affirming memoir of mortality
The ghost of a previous lover is always a …
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Chloé Zhao’s film version of Maggie O’Farrell’s myth-making novel powerfully reimagines the agonising loss of a child as the source of Hamlet’s grand stage drama
‘The joys of parents are secret, and s…
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Maggie O’Farrell, Yann Martel and Julian Barnes are among the authors publishing new novels this year
The beginning of the books calendar is usually dominated by debuts, but January 2026 sees release…
New books by Liza Minelli, David Sedaris, Maggie O’Farrell and Yann Martel are among the literary highlights of the year ahead
2026 is already promising plenty of unmissable releases: there are new n…
64 days ago
The wife of William Shakespeare takes centre stage in a rich, sensitive examination of parental grief, sensitively narrated by Jessie Buckley
The jury is still out on the merits of Chloé Zhao’s Hamne…
5 months ago
Judged by Maggie O’Farrell, Ben Miles and Chigozie Obioma, the Hilary Mantel prize for fiction will recognise emerging talent, and pay tribute to the Wolf Hall author’s legacy
A few months after Hilar…
Chloé Zhao’s Shakespeare drama has picked up the people’s choice award which has come to be a predictor of Oscar success
Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Hamnet has won this year’s people’s choice award at …
Toronto film festival: The two stars are knockouts in Chloé Zhao’s poignant adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel with a stirring tearjerker ending
Maggie O’Farrell’s lauded 2020 novel Hamnet is…
8 months ago
Having a separate award was good for female novelists. Now a medical author is blazing a trail with a true story
Female nonfiction writers are paid less on average, receive fewer reviews and win fewer…
9 months ago
During the decade-long conflicts, the major powers dithered as Serb militias carried out their brutal campaigns of ethnic cleansing. Guardian reporters became more passionate and more outspoken in th…
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