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The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout audiobook review – brilliant portrait of an existential crisis

A teacher’s private anxieties are subtly combined with political events in this Booker-listed tale set in coastal Massachusetts

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Marlon James, Douglas Stuart and Elizabeth Strout are among Booker Prize semifinalists

Booker Prize winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are in the running for the 2026 edition of the prestigious fiction award

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The Booker Prize longlist 2026: Full list of 13 books nominated and where to buy them

The long-awaited Booker Dozen has finally been announced – here’s what the novels are about, and where you can buy them

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This Booker longlist may have two previous winners, but it’s keen to experiment

Marlon James, Douglas Stuart and Elizabeth Strout may be names we know, but there’s a welcome element of absurdism and surrealist thought here

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Previous winners Douglas Stuart and Marlon James lead Booker prize longlist

Chair of judges Mary Beard said each of the 13 books in contention for the £50,000 award ‘takes the reader to new places’

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Booker Prize longlist 2026: Douglas Stuart and Elizabeth Strout lead nominees

The 13 books selected for the longlist features authors representing England, Ireland, Scotland, Jamaica, Mexico, Turkey and America

The Independent UK

Claire Fuller: ‘Dylan Thomas showed me that writing could make me feel everything’

The novelist on being inspired by Shirley Jackson, discovering the brilliance of Denis Johnson, and finding comfort in Elizabeth Strout

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The books everyone will be reading this summer

SUMMER READING: From sun-soaked page-turners to perfect al fresco lunch companions, these are 21 of the hottest reads right now

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‘Failure was my thing’: Women’s prize winner Virginia Evans on her long journey to success

The American author received ‘thousands of rejections’ over two decades before finally hitting gold with her first published novel

The Guardian - UK

Best new books to read this autumn, from Meg Mason to Ann Patchett

From stranger-than-fiction memoirs to historical novels and essay collections, dive into these pages for autumn

Evening Standard

Elizabeth Strout: ‘It’s a tough thing to be creative and have children’

INTERVIEW: After Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is back with a brand new protagonist in her 11th novel, ‘The Things We Never Say’. The chronicler of small-town despair, loved by Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith, tells Jessie Thompson why her books are so full of loneliness…

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The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout review – readers will delight in these new characters

The Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton author branches out with the tale of a Massachusetts teacher haunted by trauma

The Guardian - UK

I’m an audiobook obsessive, and these are my must-listen Audible releases for April and May

These are the six audiobooks I’m downloading for spring

The Independent UK

Books to look out for in 2026 – fiction

Maggie O’Farrell, Yann Martel and Julian Barnes are among the authors publishing new novels this year

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Yael van der Wouden : ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy cured my fear of aliens’

The Safekeep author on her secret childhood reading, falling in love with Elizabeth Strout and why she keeps coming back to Zadie Smith

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Lily King: ‘What is life without love?’

The American author discusses our need for fiction in an age of disconnection, the challenges of growing up with 14 step-siblings, and why she’s going ‘all in’ on romance

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Where to start with: Elizabeth Strout

A guide to the Pulitzer-winning novelist’s tales of small-town life, family secrets, and fraught relationships

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Women’s prize for fiction 2025: six experts review the shortlisted novels

From a longlist of 16, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2025 Women’s prize for fiction. Our experts review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on June 12.

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The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 has gone to a debut author – here’s where to read the winning book

The winning novel is “a classic in the making”

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Elizabeth Strout and Miranda July are among finalists for the Women's Prize for Fiction

American authors Elizabeth Strout and Miranda July are among finalists for the Women’s Prize for Fiction

The Guardian - UK

Miranda July and Elizabeth Strout shortlisted for the Women’s prize for fiction

American authors of All Fours and Tell Me Everything are competing for the 30th award alongside four other novels highlighting ‘the importance of human connection’

The Independent UK

Conflict, imperialism, escape and the rise of Big Tech feature in Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 longlist

Books by renowned authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are among the works selected by a panel of expert judges, along with nine debut writers

Evening Standard

Amazon’s Book of the Year 2024 and similar reads to dive into

From best-selling romances to non-fiction marvels

The Guardian - UK

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout review – characters that never grow old

Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton return, the former now in a retirement community, in the author’s understated but hugely rewarding study of small-town life

Evening Standard

Sally Rooney, Hanif Kureishi, Elizabeth Strout: the best new books for Autumn

Discover the best new books this Autumn, from gripping novels to insightful memoirs

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