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‘Exhilarating fiction from a voice to watch’: Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing reviewed in Kirkus Reviews.
7 things writers can learn from stand-up comedians.
Listen to Damien Echols talk about his new book, Yours for Eternity: A Love Story on Death Row, co-written with wife Lorri Davis, on Fox FM.
‘Satirical but sweet at the same time, it’s a dazzling debut.’ The Daily Mail recommends Marianne Kavanagh’s For Once in My Life.
Guess who’s a fan of The Rosie Project?
How shelving can save a book’s life.
‘I listen to the Velvet Underground’s “Sister Ray", over and over’: advice from writers on how to beat writer’s block.
‘I don’t even like to write in public places’: an interview with Geoff Dyer in the White Review.
How Dungeons & Dragons has influenced a generation of writers.
Infographic: how to perfect your elevator pitch.
I like big books and I cannot lie.
Your female characters are so strong…
How do you read a poem consisting only of punctuation? I think the answer is ‘?’
Here are the books we stopped reading, and where we stopped reading them.
Book hangovers are a thing.
‘To reinvent yourself means to live openly to life’: an interview with Tom Rachman, author of The Rise and Fall of Great Powers.
‘Ferrante is a master of the unsayable’: the Guardian on Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series. (Book three in the series, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, is out 24 September.)
The race to destroy priceless manuscripts as idiotically as possible.
An interview with Chris Flynn, author of The Glass Kingdom and A Tiger in Eden, recorded at Avid Reader.
