The US writers join four debut authors in demonstrating ‘the complexity and beauty of the female experience’, said chair of judges Julia Gillard ...

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This fable-like novella about technologies of illusion and a life-changing friendship in Mexico City is enchanting ...

This fable-like novella about technologies of illusion and a life-changing friendship in Mexico City is enchanting ...

Economic historian and politician who was a leading authority on the life and work of John Maynard Keynes In the summer of 2008, Robert Skidelsky, who has died aged 86, thought he was done with John ...

From haven for intellectuals fleeing Hitler to the HQ of the feared Abwehr, the changing fortunes of a Parisian icon ...

An epic poem about the Trojan war is merged with the domestic heartbreak of the scholar who discovers it in this ambitious, structurally problematic novel ...

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The bright young things of 1992’s Brightness Falls are now in their 60s in this verbose, clunky novel that seems more interested in lifestyle than inner lives ...

The children’s author answers questions from readers, friends and writers on losing his son Eddie, surviving Covid, who he’d invite to his perfect birthday dinner and where he goes for inspiration ...