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Good Omens is going beyond the book? That’s not a bad sign
While Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett never wrote a sequel, they did sketch out a plot that will now form a second season. If they wanted to continue the story, I want to watch it In 2017, when...
Lionel Shriver v Cynthia Ozick: hurrah for the new literary beef
The books world was growing worryingly well-mannered, but Ozick’s response – in verse – to a bad review by Shriver has revived the fine art of feuding Whether it is Henry Fielding mocking ...
Why I am deleting Goodreads and maybe you should, too | Kat Smith
There’s a buzz to sharing your reading life, but for me it turned it into a kind of competition that distracts from what I love about books I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed reading a...
Haruki Murakami's new T-shirt line proves it: he's no recluse
The notoriously private author’s latest project, a stylish clothing collaboration with Uniqlo, marks the latest step in his opening up to the world It may be time to stop calling the Japanese...
Off with their heads! Why are Lewis Carroll misquotes so common online?
Following a recent similar Royal Mint slip-up, the Westminster Collection’s new 50p coins have sent Carroll experts down an internet rabbit hole to source false quotes As Oscar Wilde famously...
Call for new writers of colour as entries open for 4thWrite short story prize
The Guardian and publisher 4th Estate’s annual award for unpublished writers of colour offers £1,000 to the winner, and publication on theguardian.com The Guardian and 4th Estate’s short st...
Redwall is coming to Netflix: where to start for kids (and adults)
Brian Jacques’ tale of valiant mice and no-good rats introduced me to fantasy fiction. My daughters love it too, and here are some reasons why everyone should If, like me, you are a fan of Bri...
George Orwell is out of copyright. What happens now?
Much of the author’s work may have fallen into public ownership in the UK, but there are more restrictions on its use remaining than you might expect, explains his biographer George Orwell die...
The sexiest moments in literature that aren't sex scenes
With the Bad sex in fiction award cancelled this year, we celebrate authors from Jeanette Winterson to Jane Austen who can charge the dryest scenes with sensuality Writing about sex is notorious...
Has Donald Trump already landed a $100m book and TV deal?
While books about the outgoing US president have been bestsellers for the last four years, Trump might be a step too far for some publishers Fact-checkers are quaking in their boots amid report...
Stacey Abrams: Georgia's political heroine … and romance author
Writing under the name Selena Montgomery, Abrams has penned eight romantic thrillers, often while also fighting for voters’ rights Stacey Abrams is the former Georgia state house minority lea...
Joe Biden's love for Seamus Heaney is evidence of a soul you can trust | Jonathan Jones
The president-elect has often quoted Heaney’s poetry, with his reading of The Cure at Troy going viral after his election victory I didn’t fall for Joe Biden until I learned that he loves t...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2020/nov/09/joe-biden-love-for-seamus-heaney-poetry
Bookshops are a precious shelter from the storms of life
Whether you’re a child discovering new worlds of adventure or Faye Dunaway losing herself in the philosophy section, they are a sanctuary for all It was blowing a gale when I took Lemn Sissay ...
Stuart Dybek: bungee jumping through the trapdoors of time
Unaccountably little-known outside the US, his stories take the reader from a carefully observed midwest into a past that is very much alive Like Steven Millhauser, Deborah Eisenberg and Edward ...
Bookshop.org is what the publishing world has been waiting for
Following its success in the US, the ethical platform Bookshop.org has arrived in the UK, marking an exciting new chapter for independent stores online In publishing we often talk about things ...
NaNoWriMo: how to make best use of the annual writing month
Novelist David Barnett talks to some of the famous names who got started by joining the nationwide creative drive – and offers his hints for success If everyone has a book in them, then Novemb...
The end of A Brief History of Seven Killings – and our reading group
After 700 gruelling pages, Marlon James finishes on a note of uncertain hope that leaves the reader wondering The final line of Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings is: “–Kimmy...
Have you been using the pandemic to catch up on long classic novels?
Sales of War and Peace, Don Quixote and Middlemarch are booming. The appeal of a seriously long read has never been more alluring Tell us: what literary classics have you read during lockdown? ...
Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
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A Brief History of Seven Killings: unwieldy, occasionally tedious – and magnificent
A book about Bob Marley, told by everyone but Bob Marley – in the vein of Gay Talese or James Ellroy, Marlon James’s Booker winner brings in a dozen competing voices Marlon James says that ...