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Monday, June 30, 2014

Guardian first book award 2014: add your nomination

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One of the titles on the longlist for this year's prize for literary debuts is up to readers. Please nominate the best new work you'...

Guardian first book award 2014: 10th book terms and conditions

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How to nominate a book for the 10th place on the First book award longlist 1. The "First book award: 10th book" competition (the ...

Hollywood to remake Audition: English-language version of cult Japanese horror planned

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Producers to base new film on Ryu Murakamis original 1997 novel rather than Takashi Miikes 2009 film, with Australian director Richard Gray ...

In the Approaches by Nicola Barker, review: 'hollowly self-deprecating'

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Nicola Barker's latest novel is a screwball comedy suffering an existential crisis, finds Anthony Cummins via Books and Author Inter...

To witness your child's death is the worst thing

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For the first time since the loss of their son in a cycling accident, author Thomas Harding and his wife Debora speak about how they coped w...

Calling Life a 'Journey' Makes Me Nuts -- But I Loved Katrina Kenison's 'Magical Journey.'

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Early in my novel, "Married Sex," Blair tells David about a book she'll be discussing with Barnard freshmen, Lesley Blanch...

Dermot Healy, 'uncompromisingly brilliant' poet and novelist, dies aged 66

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Tributes paid to Irish author acclaimed as a unique figure 'in the tradition of Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien' The Irish auth...

Dermot Healy, 'uncompromisingly brilliant' poet and novelist, dies aged 66

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Tributes paid to Irish author acclaimed as a unique figure 'in the tradition of Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien' The Irish auth...

Poem of the week: A Birthmother's Catechism by Carrie Etter

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In a haunting refrain of imagined questions and answers, a mother speculates how her son, adopted as a baby, feels about the parent he has n...

What are the best first world war books for children?

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Authors including Michael Morpurgo, Melvin Burgess and Adele Geras recommend their favourite books for children and teens about the first wo...

Nicholas Shakespeare on Priscilla, queen of mystery

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No matter how deeply biographers delve, some aspects of their subjects' lives will remain forever mysterious, says Nicholas Shakespeare ...

Arena: The 50 Year Argument, review: inside the New York Review of Books

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The best way to enjoy the wonders of the NYRB is to read it, says Benji Wilson via Books and Author Interviews http://ift.tt/V0Qj6l

Empire's Crossroads review 'a strikingly assured history of the Caribbean'

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Carrie Gibson pinpoints how sugar and slavery have bankrolled the modern globalised world Washing up on the shores of San Salvador island on...

The 100 best novels: No 41 - The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915)

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Ford's masterpiece is a searing study of moral dissolution behind the facade of an English gentleman and its stylistic influence lingers...