Politicians, experts and friends of royals back calls for The Crown fiction disclaimer
A powerful coalition of politicians, Royal experts and a close friend of Prince Charles last night backed calls for Netflix
Read more
Fiction
Stuart Dybek: bungee jumping through the trapdoors of time | Books
Like Steven Millhauser, Deborah Eisenberg and Edward P Jones, Stuart Dybek is one of a relatively small group of American
Read more
25 years of His Dark Materials: Philip Pullman on the journey of a lifetime | Books
It was 1993 when I thought of Lyra and began writing His Dark Materials. John Major was prime minister, the
Read more
‘Master’ of short story Sarah Hall becomes first to win BBC prize twice | Books
Sarah Hall has become the first writer to win the BBC national short story award twice, with judges describing her
Read more
How I learned to love being an Essex girl | Sarah Perry | Books
In the kingdom of the East Saxons, towards the end of the seventh century, the noblewoman Ethelburga founded an abbey
Read more
The housewife, the ghost hunter and the poltergeist | Books
On 20 February 1938, the Sunday Pictorial carried a report of a haunting in Croydon. A 34-year-old housewife had called
Read more
Biggest books of autumn 2020: what to read in a very busy year | Books
Nonfiction This autumn will be like no other in the world of books. It’s always a busy season, but Covid-19
Read more
Andrew O’Hagan: ‘If you are honest, you never stop being who you were’ | Fiction
Every teenager, or every teenager who is lucky, has a Keith. Keith is the friend who jokes and dresses with
Read more
Ottessa Moshfegh: ‘Americans are really good storytellers and really good liars’ | Books
“It is just kind of a coincidence, obviously,” Ottessa Moshfegh says of the importance of isolation in her fiction, from
Read more Not the Booker prize longlist: vote now to decide the 2020 shortlist | Books
We now have a Not the Booker longlist – and it’s a very, very long longlist. We have more than
Read more