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‘An immensely satisfying book, one that rewards slow and careful reading, it confirms his status as a writer of the highest caliber’: Murray Bail’s The Voyage reviewed in the New York Times.

Book editors do actually edit books, despite what you may have heard.

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Literary fiction inappropriately reimagined as children’s books.

Controversial: 5 movies that are better than the books they’re based on.

Even more controversial: the 10 best sentences in literature.

A list of every book mentioned on Gilmore Girls.

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‘A delightful take on what it means to be family’: Craig Sherborne’s Tree Palace reviewed on the Hoopla.

‘Write what you know'—helpful advice or idle cliché?

Nobody tells you, “This is how to edit. Follow these steps.” A Read more

Wonderful press for Eimear McBride and A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

This incredible debut novel is a sensation: since its publication, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing has received rapturous critical acclaim, with all reviewers agreeing that it is a book unlike any other.

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‘Fiction that matches the complexity of history’: Rabih Alameddine’s An Unnecessary Woman in the New York Review of Books.

Your book sucks: are authors being bullied by one-star Amazon reviews?

The neurological similarities between successful writers and the mentally ill.

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‘Brutal and touching detail’: The Lost Child reviewed in the Guardian.

Why the first line of a novel is more important than ever.

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Lloyd Jones’s memoir, A History of Silence, is ‘a knockout…one of the bravest and best-written memoirs I have read’, says Nicholas Shakespeare in his five-star review in the Telegraph.

When lit becomes a science: culturomics and results-based reading.

Great press for Rana Dasgupta’s Capital

Celebrated novelist Rana Dasgupta’s first work of non-fiction, Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi, is the inside story of India’s fastest-growing megacity.

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Darwin’s children drew all over the manuscript of On the Origin of Species. Kids!

12 books that end mid-sentence.

Miller and Monroe, Collins and Brando: the writers who fell for film stars.

10 fictional characters who might be psychopaths (and why we’re drawn to them).

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