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The best Taylor Swift gifts for super fans

From a book that reveals the stories behind the record-breaking singer’s songs to her favourite kind of red lipstick, these pressies picked by our music editor will delight the Swiftie in your life

The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2024

Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler: a ‘sad girl novel’ that lacks emotional depth

In Adelaide, the debut novel by Genevieve Wheeler, a vivacious American woman living in London (the eponymous Adelaide) falls head over heels for the enigmatic Rory Hughes. By turns charming and distant, Rory entrances her, and the two fall into a whirlwind romance that never seems on solid ground. When…

The Conversation · Nov 7, 2024

Best fiction books of 2024: from Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo to Percival Everett’s James

THE LIST: Catch up on the year’s best new novels with Katie Rosseinsky and Jessie Thompson’s edit of 2024’s most memorable fiction

The Independent UK · Nov 6, 2024

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Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo among books on Waterstones Book Of The Year shortlist

Previous winners range from Philip Pullman and Maggie O’Farrell to Charlie Mackesy, Paul McCartney and Katherine Rundell.

Evening Standard · Nov 1, 2024

Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Arundhati Roy call for boycott of Israeli cultural institutions

The authors are among 1,000 books industry figures pledging not to work with any publishers, festivals or publications ‘complicit in violating Palestinian rights’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2024

How Sally Rooney came to be dubbed the ‘voice of a generation’

Sally Rooney’s new novel, Intermezzo, is finally here – and nearly everyone I know seems to be reading it. It’s almost like the pre-streaming days, when everyone would settle on the sofa at the same time to watch the new hit TV series. The sense that we were all part…

The Conversation · Oct 14, 2024

How does someone become the ‘voice of a generation’? A brief history of the concept

Sally Rooney, author of Normal People and now Intermezzo, keeps being called “the voice of a generation”. And she’s just the latest in a sequence of authors to get this accolade.

The Conversation · Oct 14, 2024

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Boris Johnson’s memoir, Unleashed, tops Amazon UK sales list ahead of publication

Sold at half price, the former PM’s apologia of his career has outstripped sales of recent novels by Sally Rooney and Richard Osman

The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2024

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

Evening Standard · Oct 1, 2024

Starmer accused of hypocrisy after Trump meeting ...The Standard podcast

Sir Keir Starmer has met with the US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for the first time.

Evening Standard · Sep 27, 2024

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney review: Her best novel yet

At this point, it feels as though there is very little interesting left that can be said about Sally Rooney. Every criticism has been mined, every degree of adulation expressed. Seven years on from her dazzling debut Conversations With Friends, and particularly since the stratospheric success of Normal People the…

Evening Standard · Sep 27, 2024

Sally Rooney says she regrets calling her book Normal People

The author used to use the phrase “quite a lot” in real life

Evening Standard · Sep 26, 2024

Sally Rooney kicks off book event with impassioned pro-Palestine speech: ‘Keep protesting’

Exclusive: The ‘Normal People’ author urged listeners to ‘not give in to despair’

The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2024

Sally Rooney’s new novel, Intermezzo, is her longest and best consideration of ‘idiotic desire and love’ yet

On the level of theme, the Irish writer Sally Rooney is firmly in her wheelhouse in her new novel Intermezzo. We find Peter and Ivan Koubek having just lost their father and trying to forge a life through and past this bereavement by way of intimate relationships.

The Conversation · Sep 24, 2024

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The Independent UK · Sep 23, 2024

Sally Rooney reveals why she hasn’t accepted any offers to adapt third novel into TV series

‘I felt that world was not where I belonged’ said the bestselling author

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2024

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney review – is there a better writer at work right now?

With her fourth novel, the Normal People author leans fully into her talent, creating a funny, tender tale of two grieving brothers and their messy love lives that’s utterly perfect

The Guardian - AU · Sep 20, 2024

Five Great Reads: Sally Rooney, impossible beauty standards, and Labor’s environment policy flop

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2024

The Guardian view on the Booker prize shortlist: a cause for celebration

Editorial: The most female finalists in the award’s history. What took it so long?

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Evening Standard · Sep 20, 2024

When is the next Sally Rooney novel out? Everything you need to know about Intermezzo

The Irish author’s latest novels hits shelves in September

International Business Times · Sep 20, 2024

Sally Rooney Returns With 30-something Questions

Irish author Sally Rooney, hailed as the "voice of a generation" after the runaway success of "Normal People", examines modern love in all its glory and friction in her fourth novel "Intermezzo" released next week.

Evening Standard · Sep 19, 2024

The cult of Sally Rooney: how she became the most talked-about author of a generation

As her highly-anticipated new novel Intermezzo is published, Emma Loffhagen speaks to both fans and sceptics of the hugely influential millennial author

The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2024

Intermezzo review: Sally Rooney ditches the style that made her ‘voice of a generation’

With her fourth novel, Rooney has discovered her full literary prowess – the reward is transcendent

The Guardian - UK · Sep 19, 2024

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney review – surprise moves in love, loss and chess

The Irish author explores bereavement and age-gap relationships in a breathtakingly intimate tale of two brothers and the women they turn to

Tom’s Guide · Sep 17, 2024

5 best shows like 'Tell Me Lies' to stream right now

Want more romantic drama like "Tell Me Lies"? Here are similar shows to watch

The Independent UK · Sep 14, 2024

Sally Rooney says success of Normal People felt like ‘too much’

Irish author says she felt overwhelmed by the frenzy sparked by her book and the BBC’s 2020 adaptation starring Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones

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