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UNBELIEVABLE: 6 | History Defined

Sarah Bernstein Breaks the Rules in Study for Obedience

The unnerving novel that earned two major prize nominations rattles expectations of how stories are often told

The Walrus

Why Are So Many Authors Abandoning Speech Marks?

Sally Rooney, Ian Williams, and Lauren Groff are just a few of the contemporary authors avoiding quotation marks for dialogue

The Walrus

The White Review literary magazine ceases publishing

A statement cited increased costs and removal of UK state funding as the magazine, which featured writers including Paul Murray, Caleb Azumah Nelson and Sally Rooney, is to consider its future

The Guardian - UK

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Lorna Rose Treen: Skin Pigeon review – dolphins, vamps and Brownies join dotty parade

From a nine-year-old misfit to Sally Rooney writing a children’s book, Skin Pigeon’s characters are pitched at a sharp angle to the real world

The Guardian - UK

Blind date: ‘Maybe he thought I was very American’

Sophie, 26, a product manager, meets Alex, 26, who works in property finance

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Liv Little’s cultural highlights

The novelist and gal-dem founder on the album she can’t stop listening to, an action film to shout about, and the perfect family-run restaurant

The Guardian - UK

Married to the mob: the rise of the smartphone in fiction

They interrupt narrative and disrupt plot – no wonder novelists have been slow to warm to mobile phones. But a new generation is putting technology at the heart of their work

The Guardian - UK

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The indie publishing mavericks shaking up the UK books world

Last year, all of literature’s big prizes went to small publishers. In a risk‑averse climate, edgy debuts and ‘tricky-to-sell’ foreign titles have found a home at the likes of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Sort Of Books

The Guardian - UK

Review: Pig out on 'The Rachel Incident,' a comic novel about misguided friends

FICTION: Set in the early 2000s, Caroline O'Donoghue's novel is twisty and compulsive.

Tribune News Service

Nobel literature prize fell into my life ‘like a bomb’, says Annie Ernaux

In conversation with Sally Rooney at Charleston festival author says award has hindered her ability to focus on writing

The Guardian - UK

Amis, Hitchens and Larkin: bad behaviour and a messy personal life were once a gift for authors. Not any more

Flaws used to feed their sales but now writers are expected to be saints

The Guardian - UK

The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan review – less love triangle, more sex pentangle

The Irish writer’s follow up to Exciting Times is amusing and sympathetic about romantic fickleness – if not as spiky as her hit debut

The Guardian - UK

10 of the best – and most unexpected – erotic books

From Mary Wesley’s throuples to James Baldwin’s heartbreak in Paris, writers have long been obsessed by ‘the most sought-after and least examined emotion’. Here Lucy Knight picks her top 10

The Guardian - UK

Sally Rooney takes time off from fiction to bash landlords

Landlords ‘never seem to run out of other people’s money’ says the writer

Evening Standard

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17 tips to develop your characters

Isabel Armitage offers 17 tips to develop your characters, with artwork by Toby Hawksley.

The Independent UK

Author picks up young writer prize for novel about legacy of male violence

Previous winners of the award, which comes with a £10,000 prize, include Normal People author Sally Rooney and Surge poet Jay Bernard.

The Guardian - UK

Book thief who stole more than 1,000 manuscripts ‘wanted to cherish them before anyone else’

Filippo Bernardini impersonated hundreds of people in the publishing industry to obtain work by Margaret Atwood, Sally Rooney and Ian McEwan, but never intended to leak the books

Irish Mirror

Paul Mescal's mother Dearbhla opens up about cancer battle and lifts lid on life advice she gave her son

Dearbhla Mescal was diagnosed with Multiple myeloma last July

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The Guardian - AU

China’s censored feminist movement finds solace in Sally Rooney

Rooney is among a number of successful western authors who have found a growing audience in China’s restless younger generation

The Guardian - UK

Meet the 10 best new novelists for 2023

Our annual pick of the best debut authors has previously included Sally Rooney and Douglas Stuart. Here we talk to this year’s hottest prospects

The Guardian - UK

Will Self: ‘I’m seen as a still-walking dead white man’

The novelist on his new collection of journalism, why he regrets criticising Sally Rooney and how he’s never shaken off the influence of JG Ballard

ABC News

The best new books released in October as selected by avid readers and critics

A spin on the colonial ‘missing child tale’, a collection of essays dissecting horror and a Miles Franklin nominee’s small masterpiece are among our critics' top picks for the month.

Evening Standard

Wagatha Christie lawyers tell their ‘detective story’ on podcast

FANS of the Wagatha Christie saga rejoice: Coleen Rooney’s lawyers have put out a podcast about her libel trial against Rebekah Vardy.

The Guardian - AU

Diana Reid on Sally Rooney, Love & Virtue and her fast follow-up: ‘Lockdown gave me freedom to fail’

Seeing Other People comes just 12 months after Reid’s acclaimed debut and follows two sisters enthralled by the same woman – and the pull between duty and desire

The Guardian - UK

What links Aubrey Plaza to Sally Rooney and The White Lotus?

Sashay down the rabbit hole to discover how the Hollywood actor is connected to these cultural touchstones – as well as a medieval sex farce

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