2+ week, 2+ day ago   (399+ words) Getting lost in a story and stepping away from doom scrolling and work deadlines can be very cathartic. Deborah Cicurel checks into a boutique book break for the ultimate slow-living experience I decide that a change is needed. There’s a…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (276+ words) Acclaimed author Patricia Lockwood is this year's winner of the Gabe Hudson Prize, a $10,000 honor named for the late author, educator and editor and given for fiction that demonstrates “humor, pathos, and a deep understanding of contemporary America.” Lockwood was…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (330+ words) Lisa Owens’ latest novel takes us inside a mum of two’s fraught final day of maternity leave. Jessie Thompson, who returned from her own mat leave this year, talks to her about the wild ride that is 24 hours with a…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (578+ words) Lawyer-turned-author Abigail Dean has won a top crime writer award for her thriller The Death Of Us. Dean took home the 2026 Gold Dagger for the best crime novel of the year at the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger Awards…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (624+ words) ‘But the question of how certain forms of media flatten or monetise our attention – I do think that’s political territory,’ said Lerner American author Ben Lerner has insisted that his book Transcription does not make a “political statement” after it…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (882+ words) Woolf’s second novel, Night and Day, published in 1919, is often seen as an anomaly Virginia Woolf remains one of the most widely read and celebrated writers of the 20th century, with To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway regularly appearing near the…...