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Back to SearchLaura Beatty & Edmund de Waal: Pear Trees
Pear Trees (Hazel Press) is a short story by Laura Beatty, the Ondaatje Prize-shortlisted novelist and biographer. Set in an Albanian mountain villag…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
T.S. Eliot at Faber
On 23 April 1925, T.S. Eliot was invited by Geoffrey Faber to join the newly founded publishing house of Faber & Gwyer. It was to prove the most mome…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Philip Hoare & Olivia Laing: William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love
In William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love (4th Estate) – ‘an impassioned magnum opus celebrating Blake’s star-shaken genius by discovering his li…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Sasha Debevec-McKenney & Jack Underwood: Joy is My Middle Name
Sasha Debevec-McKenney’s debut collection Joy Is My Middle Name (Fitzcarraldo) packs a lot in – humour, heartbreak, politics, sex, race, womanhood, a…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Jenny Uglow & Fiona Stafford on Gilbert White
In A Year with Gilbert White (Faber) biographer and historian Jenny Uglow continues her exploration of the 18th-century scientific revolution with a …
5 months ago
Emily LaBarge & Olivia Laing: Dog Days
Emily LaBarge’s Dog Days (Peninsula Press) begins with a personal trauma – the account of how she and her family were held hostage during the Christm…
5 months ago
Wendy Erskine & Sheena Patel: The Benefactors
Wendy Erskine’s two short story collections Sweet Home and Dance Move marked her out as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Irish fict…
5 months ago
Ali Smith & Sarah Wood: Gliff in the Spruce Forest
Playful, mind-expanding, dark, funny and endlessly rewarding, Ali Smith’s dystopian parable of an authoritarian future was one of the most talked-abo…
5 months, 1 week ago
Ed Atkins & Holly Pester: Flower
In Flower (Fitzcarraldo), his first work of non-fiction, Copenhagen-based artist Ed Atkins propels us into a world of junk food, invented memories an…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Owen Hatherley & Michael Hofmann: The Alienation Effect
In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. In The Alienation Effect (Allen Lane) acclaimed archit…
5 months, 3 weeks ago