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Maggie O’Farrell: ‘Fiction comes from what you don’t know’
From a young age, the author was told that one of her ancestors had drawn some of the first maps of Ireland. Then she found a photograph, and embarked on…
Books
The Road to Bard: The thrills and challenges of launching Vancouver’s Shakespeare festival
Book excerpt: Bard on the Beach is the Camelot that I dreamed about, writes founder Christopher Gaze. It is a sharing of Shakespeare in an idyllic spot — Vancouver’s Sen̓áḵw/Vanier…
Selva Almada
Argentina’s interior voice – an interview with author Selva Almada
Between echoes returning from the past and a language that breathes the brush and the river, Selva Almada’s new novel 'Una casa sola' (Random House) creates a universe in which…
‘I am very serious about being silly’: children’s illustrators on the art of storytelling
From The Twits to The Gruffalo and an angry bear in search of his hat… Quentin Blake, Cressida Cowell, Axel Sheffler, Lauren Child and more reveal how they bring children’s…
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Richard Thompson, Edinburgh review: ‘richly expressive’
He may be 77 now, but Richard Thomson still feels connected and vital, writes David Pollock
4thWrite short story prize
Submissions open for 4thWrite short story prize
Now in its 10th year, the £1,000 competition is held by publisher 4th Estate and the Guardian, and open to Black, Asian and minority ethnic writers in the UK and…
Fiction
Virginia Evans: ‘I loved books about things that can’t exist’
The Women’s prize-shortlisted novelist on taking inspiration from John Steinbeck, Joan Didion and Jhumpa Lahiri, and weeping through Little Women in her 30sMy earliest reading memory I’m not sure what…
Fiction
The best recent translated fiction – review roundup
Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami; All Flesh by Ananda Devi; The White Desert by Luis López Carrasco; The Home of the Drowned by Elin Anna LabbaSisters in Yellow by…
Fiction
Prestige Drama by Séamas O’Reilly review – brilliant wry comedy of Derry and the shadow of the past
A British and American film crew descend on the Northern Irish city to film a drama about the Troubles, in a keenly observed and snappily written debutThe premise of Séamas…
Books
International: 30 bestselling books of the week for May 23
Compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales statistics from more than 250 Canadian independent book stores.
Books
B.C.: 15 bestselling books for the week of May 23
The bestselling local books of the week, compiled by the Association of Book Publishers of B.C.