LITERARY FICTION
According to its Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this fable was written to provide some much-needed distraction.
According to its Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this fable was written to provide some much-needed distraction.
LITERARY FICTION By Anthony Cummins For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 GMT, 4 February 2021 | Updated: 22:03 GMT, 4 February 2021 TEN DAYS by Austin Duffy (Granta £12.99, 272 pp) TEN DAYS by Austin Duffy (Granta £12.99, 272 pp) Duffy’s acclaimed debut, This Living And Immortal Thing, set on a cancer ward, drew on … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Stephanie Cross for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 28 January 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 28 January 2021 LIGHT PERPETUAL by Francis Spufford (Faber £16.99, 336 pp) LIGHT PERPETUAL by Francis Spufford (Faber £16.99, 336 pp) November 1944 and a German warhead buries itself in a South London branch of Woolworths. … Read more
LUSTER by Raven Leilani (Picador £14.99, 240 pp) LUSTER by Raven Leilani (Picador £14.99, 240 pp) This debut was a big deal in America last year and hits the UK riding a tsunami of praise. Edie is 23, living in a mouse-ridden flat, floundering in her job in publishing and with a history of ill-judged … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Stephanie Cross for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 7 January 2021 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 7 January 2021 A LIE SOMEONE TOLD YOU ABOUT YOURSELF by Peter Ho Davies (Sceptre £14.99, 192 pp) A LIE SOMEONE TOLD YOU ABOUT YOURSELF by Peter Ho Davies (Sceptre £14.99, 192 pp) A writer’s job … Read more
Queen in cream! Letizia of Spain looks pristine in a neutral frock as she joins her husband King Felipe VI for a private literary prize-giving ceremony Queen Letizia of Spain looked effortlessly elegant in a cream dress today Royal, 48, joined her husband King Felipe VI, 52, in Albeniz Palace in Barcelona They presented the poet Joan Margarit … Read more
Queen in cream! Letizia of Spain looks pristine in a neutral frock as she joins her husband King Felipe VI for a private literary prize-giving ceremony Queen Letizia of Spain looked effortlessly elegant in a cream dress today Royal, 48, joined her husband King Felipe VI, 52, in Albeniz Palace in Barcelona They presented the poet Joan Margarit … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Stephanie Cross for the Daily Mail Published: 22:06 GMT, 12 November 2020 | Updated: 22:54 GMT, 12 November 2020 THE LAST GOOD MAN by Thomas McMullan (Bloomsbury £16.99, 320 pp) THE LAST GOOD MAN by Thomas McMullan (Bloomsbury £16.99, 320 pp) Set in a deliberately vague alternative version of England, this calls … Read more
Some of the most talked-about novels from the U.S. in recent years have been male coming-of-age narratives shaped by experiences of racism.