Books
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As he sets out to spill his secrets in an online masterclass, Brown talks about bad reviews, his habit of hanging upside down and the challenge of writing fiction in the age of Trump
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Germaine Greer’s brilliance and taste for controversy still don’t make her an easy quarry for her biographer, Elizabeth Kleinhenz -
The former first lady’s wit and warmth shine through in her account of life inside and outside the White House
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The historian and author of The New Silk Roads on why we need to be less Eurocentric and his love of the great Russian novelists -
Can director Saverio Costanzo and a cast of non-professional actors do justice to Ferrante’s radical vision of postwar Naples?
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A portrait of the novelist’s German wife explores the price paid for inspiring her man -
A superb account of an episode when the writers took over and it seemed all could be different. Then people were rounded up and shot -
This revealing memoir offers new insights into her upbringing on the south side of Chicago and the highs and lows of life with Barack Obama -
Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin’s case for understanding those people who want to ‘reassert cherished national identities’ claims to be myth-busting. But is it just flawed?
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These spectacular stories offer a chilling vision of what lies in store for America -
Burgess’s vision of medieval Europe is finally brought to life in this vivid pastiche -
Reactionaries and remoaners clash in a meditation on anger, loss and the passing of time featuring the characters from The Rotters’ Club
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A near-future story about a tech geek and a member of the Chinese elite takes in everything from quantum theory and revolution to shyness -
Newcomer by Keigo Higashino, Still Lives by Maria Hummel, The Stranger Diaries by Ellie Griffiths, A House of Ghosts by WC Ryan, Five Days of Fog by Anna Freeman and The Long Shadow be Celia Fremlin -
An inventive, immersive adventure vividly imagines a bleak near future shaped by sinister software
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A slender, but beautifully written evocation of the travails of writing and the deep sources of horror -
Sibling love drives this richly imagined adventure from the author of The Girl of Ink and Stars -
Moby-Dick is reimagined from the whale’s point of view in this lyrical, pacey tale
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‘I remember the horror,’ says Baillie Gifford non-fiction prize-winner, who lived through the 1986 disaster -
The books interview: the Booker prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo on exasperating his readers, kindness in an unkind world and why he wrote an operatic libretto set at a Trump rally -
On a 6,000-mile bicycle journey along the Silk Road, the author explored the notion of wildness – the Earth’s and her own
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‘The two things I love most are novels and birds, and they’re both in trouble,’ says The Corrections author, one of the world’s most famous birdwatchers -
Incest, dragons, gore ... with fans awaiting the next book in his hit series, the novelist talks about fame, expectations – and the new 300-year history of the Targaryens in Westeros -
On this week’s show, Robertson talks about his narrative poem The Long Take and McMillan explores adolescent rites of passage in Playtime
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From Proust’s explorations of consciousness to Olivia Laing’s meditations on isolation, solitude is literature’s friend -
On PEN International’s Day of the Imprisoned Writer, the Indian novelist addresses photographer Shahidul Alam, charged with criticising Bangladesh on Facebook -
What to read
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The Canadian author on miracles, Kafka’s Metamorphosis and the life-changing philosophy of Andy Warhol -
Novelist Richard Powers, Nobel winner Wangari Maathai and Amazonian shaman Davi Kopenawa: five books about one of the most profound environmental changes of our time -
Autumn books 2018
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From Haruki Murakami to Michelle Obama, what to read this season
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The first of the author’s Neapolitan novels is about to hit TV screens in a hugely ambitious adaptation, made on location in Naples -
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