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‘His lyrical encounters with a wide range of modern Delhiites reveal a novelist’s ear and are beautifully sketched’: Rana Dasgupta’s Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi reviewed in the Telegraph.
‘It’s a book to catch, before it takes flight’: Jay Griffiths' A Love Letter from a Stray Moon reviewed in the Independent.
A history of love (of bookstores).
‘Dating a writer was one of my bigger relationship snafus—his ego often made our duo a trio.’ Read more
Listen to Marie Darrieussecq read from her novel All the Way and discuss her work on the Guardian books podcast (from around 9:00).
Which books from your past do you read now with ambivalence?
Books are available all year ‘round.
Books do not need to be toasted and smothered in butter to be enjoyable.
Books will not make all your stuff sticky if you carry them around in your bag.
Books are low-carb and sugar-free.
‘Well written, informative, lively, entertaining and often irreverent, Wright’s work is a seamless amalgam of academic text and storytelling worthy of a good novelist’: Clare Wright’s The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka reviewed at Bellaloopa.
‘Alex As Well is an awesome—and welcome—addition to LGBTQ YA featuring intersex characters.’ Alyssa Brugman’s novel reviewed at Once Upon a Bookcase.
Rewriting the history of FSG: Why is Farrar mostly left out of the Farrar, Straus and Giroux story?
The case for Henry Handel Richardson’s The Fortunes of Richard Mahony as one of the great Australian novels.
Related: can a single book sum up a nation?
‘Her brilliance isn’t limited to her mechanics, her finesse or her creativity as a writer, but it’s her willingness to continually address the psychological machinations of women who have very unfeminine feelings.’ Why Elena Ferrante’s The Story of a New Name should win the Read more
Would you throw someone out of a lifeboat to save yourself? Eleanor Learmonth and Jenny Tabakoff’s No Mercy: True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality poses the ultimate moral dilemma.
