I read 163 novels and these are the six best: Mary Beard on judging the Booker prize I found being a Booker judge hugely rewarding. All the works on our shortlist will change how you see the world The Guardian - UK · Sep 22
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 The Guardian - UK · Aug 27
Best new books to read this autumn, from Rebecca Yarros to Louise Kennedy From stranger-than-fiction memoirs to historical novels and essay collections, dive into these pages for autumn Evening Standard · Jun 2
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… The Independent UK · May 12
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 · Apr 27