John Grisham is famous for his gritty legal dramas. But when you’ve written ... won’t bother many other readers: in a work of fiction set in a world of fact – these are all real university ...

There are a few big genres of books that I am just completely not a reader of, and those include science fiction and its ...

There’s also some Highsmith, and maybe some Edward Albee, in the tensions that vibrate throughout the opening of John Banville’s The Drowned (Faber, £18.99), his fourth Strafford and Quirke ...

THIS unpleasant little book by The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas author preys so purposefully on the reader’s emotions it left me feeling a bit grubby. Freya is a burns specialist who spends her ...

When I was 19 years old, in the early 1980s, I started writing a novel about the daughter of the first female United States president. I don’t think there has been a day since when I haven’t ...

This list is updated monthly with new “best of the year” worthy titles. This year has been a treasure trove of exciting new books. It’s been a particularly strong year for sophomore novels ...

April 1, 2024 • David Bezmozgis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Likes," by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Bezmozgis is a filmmaker and writer ...

Peter Ackroyd's historical novel from 2003 blends historical fact, imaginative fiction and intellectual experiment to bring ... “The hour before dawn had come quietly into St John’s Street. A pig ...

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Lila Pereira, a successful media executive, rises to the top of her career but has to reckon with her youngest daughter, Grace, resenting her for not being a PTA mom. Grace also dredges up the ...