LITERARY FICTION 

There has been a vogue for autobiographical fiction in recent years, fuelled by the hoo-ha over Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle, drawn in minute detail from the author’s own life.

LITERARY FICTION 

In his acclaimed first novel, Sal, Kitson told the heart-rending survivalist tale of two young girls hiding out in rural Scotland to escape a harrowing home life.

The little bird with very large songbook: A delightful miscellany of nightingale fact and fiction

NATURE THE NIGHTINGALE  by Sam Lee (Century £14.99, 240pp)  At 10.45pm on May, 19, 1924, BBC radio announcer Rex Palmer interrupted the Saturday evening broadcast by dance band The Savoy Orpheans to whisk listeners into a Surrey woodland, where cellist Beatrice Harrison had been joined by a nightingale. In those days, just two years after … Read more

From Jhumpa Lahiri to Maggie Shipstead, Elizabeth Macneal and Rahul Raina: This week’s best fiction 

From a delightful novel by Jhumpa Lahiri to Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead, Elizabeth Macneal’s thrilling tale and Rahul Raina’s debut, this week’s best new fiction By Anthony Gardner and Hephzibah Anderson and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and John Williams Published: 22:01 BST, 15 May 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 15 May 2021 Whereabouts … Read more

Bruce Willis and John Travolta reuniting in action film Paradise City… 27-years after Pulp Fiction

Bruce Willis and John Travolta reuniting onscreen as bitter rivals in upcoming action film Paradise City… 27-years after classic roles in Pulp Fiction By Kevin Kayhart For Dailymail.com Published: 04:09 BST, 16 May 2021 | Updated: 04:09 BST, 16 May 2021 John Travolta and Bruce Willis were nothing short of movie gold when they starred … Read more

From William Shaw to Vendela Vida, Rachel Cusk and Sunjeev Sahota: This week’s best new fiction

From William Shaw’s atmospheric thriller to We Run The Tides by Vendela Vida, a compelling novel by Rachel Cusk and Sunjeev Sahota’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By John Williams and Alex Peake-tomkinson and Anthony Gardner and Max Davidson Published: 22:01 BST, 8 May 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 8 May 2021 The Trawlerman … Read more

WORLD FICTION   | Daily Mail Online

WORLD FICTION By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 6 May 2021 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 6 May 2021 WHEREABOUTS by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury £14.99, 176 pp) WHEREABOUTS by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury £14.99, 176 pp) The unmanned protagonist of Jhumpa Lahiri’s slender Italian novel is a 40-something professor, living in an unnamed … Read more