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Fiction

2 August 2024

  • Alexis Wright.

    Praiseworthy: why Alexis Wright’s ‘staggering’ epic is sweeping prizes – and challenging readers

    The 700+ page novel has been described as a ‘mind-altering experience’ and a massive antidote’ to short attention spans. It’s not an easy read – but it’s not meant to be

1 August 2024

  • Books of the month composite Australia.

    Bookmark this
    New Andy Griffiths, Korean slow food and a frontier war epic: the best Australian books out in August

  • Book Review Alice Robinson

    Australian book reviews
    If You Go by Alice Robinson review – what would you do with a second chance at life?

  • Alexis Wright, Australian Waanyi author

    Australian arts in focus
    Alexis Wright wins second Miles Franklin prize for Praiseworthy

  • The US Capitol Building Dome before sunrise, as seen from a taxi, in Washington DC

    Book of the day
    Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu review – haunting American dreams

31 July 2024

  • The spines of the six books on the Miles Franklin shortlist

    Australian arts in focus
    No longer pale, male and stale: your guide to the 2024 Miles Franklin shortlist

    Astrid Edwards for the Conversation
  • The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin; I Love You, I Love You, I Love You by Laura Dockrill; Kala by Colin Walsh.

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July

  • Irish playwright, short-story writer and novelist Edna O'Brien, 3 April 1962.

    From the Guardian archive
    Edna O’Brien in her own words – archive, 1962

  • A somnambulist trance … Werckmeister Harmonies.

    Werckmeister Harmonies review – Béla Tarr’s brooding masterpiece of a town sleepwalking into tyranny

  • A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike review – loveable historical fiction

  • Kensuke’s Kingdom review – Michael Morpurgo’s desert island boy’s own adventure

30 July 2024

  • Dan Brooks

    Do you ever get the feeling that we’re living in a postmodern fiction? You’re not alone

    Dan Brooks
    The once outlandish predictions of Ballard, DeLillo and (yes) The Simpsons are coming true. It’s time to author our own future, says writer Dan Brooks
  • Lisa Allardice

    This Booker longlist might just be the most enjoyable of recent years

    Lisa Allardice
    No Sally Rooney, one clear favourite and a novel set in space - this is a longlist of unexpected discoveries and big ideas
  • Booker’s dozen … the 2024 prize longlisted titles.

    Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’

    Hisham Matar, Sarah Perry and Samantha Harvey in running for prize, along with the first Native American and Dutch authors ever to be nominated

29 July 2024

  • Indomitable … Edna O’Brien in 1976.VARIOUS

    ‘A beacon of brazenness and defiance’: Edna O’Brien remembered by Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín and more

    The acclaimed author of The Country Girls, which was burned in the market square of her home town, has died aged 93. Here, Irish novelists pay tribute to a titanic figure who liberated their country’s fiction
  • Edna O'Brien.

    Edna O’Brien obituary

    Novelist who scandalised her native Ireland with The Country Girls, and explored the lives of women who love and suffer
  • Charlotte Mendelson's garden. Charlotte in her roof garden with blossom behind

    Book of the day
    Wife by Charlotte Mendelson review – bravura portrait of a marriage in meltdown

    A new novel from the author of The Exhibitionist is a family saga of rare insight, with another magnificently grotesque villain at its heart

28 July 2024

  • The writer Edna O’Brien

    Irish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

    After early novels that won international acclaim but were banned at home, the Irish author had a prolific career lasting more than half a century
  • James Baldwin in Istanbul, 1969.

    No Name in the Street; Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin – review

    In the centenary of his birth year, the author’s voice is as necessary, human and sharp as ever in a reprinted short story collection and memoir from the 1960s and 70s
  • NEW YORK Times Square in 1966<br>A197KK NEW YORK Times Square in 1966

    They Dream in Gold by Mai Sennaar review – love and identity on the 1960s music scene

    A glorious debut about a Senegalese singer’s rise to stardom and the woman he meets in New York
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