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Tessa Hadley: ‘Uneasy books are good in uneasy times’

The author on Anna Karenina, the brilliance of Anita Brookner and finally getting Nabokov

The Guardian - UK · Nov 28, 2025

Alan Hollinghurst wins David Cohen lifetime award for ‘pioneering’ novels

Author says he is ‘overcome with emotion’ after winning £40,000 honour for books including The Line of Beauty and The Swimming-Pool Library

The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2025

The Latehomecomer by Mavis Gallant book review: Glittering tales of emotional truth

Mavis Gallant is back in fashion. Of course, for those paying attention, the late Canadian writer never went out of fashion in the first place. Be that as it may, she’s back, in the form of this Pushkin Press Classics edition of her short stories, complete with an introduction from…

Evening Standard · Jul 6, 2025

Girl in the Making by Anna Fitzgerald review – an affecting coming-of-age debut

A girl’s childhood is vividly chronicled in this novel of a large family in 1960s and 70s Dublin

The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2024

After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley review – supremo of the short story

In this skilful, polished collection centred on women, Hadley is superb at capturing an atmosphere

The Guardian - UK · Jul 9, 2023

After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley review – brilliantly subversive stories

Class and character are sharply observed in this immersive collection

The Guardian - UK · Jul 5, 2023

I once argued fiercely for child-free spaces. As a mother, I still believe in their sanctity

My baby is a pub regular, but sometimes I just want to be around adults – the parent v child-free divide is starker online than off, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2023

Free Love by Tessa Hadley audiobook review – female self-discovery

Actor Abigail Thaw narrates this intimate and gripping story of political and sexual awakening in middle-class suburbia

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2023

Juana the Mad: a short story by Tessa Hadley

A chance encounter at a Christmas party churns up buried memories in this exclusive tale by the prize-winning novelist

The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2022

Review: Tessa Hadley pens subtle, seductive novel of ’60s

The year is 1967, and Phyllis, a 40-year-old homemaker outside London, is getting dressed for dinner

The Independent UK · Feb 14, 2022