Number 3 chiller
So good they reviewed it twice: Rebecca Mead’s The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot is reviewed in the LA Review of Books by both Pamela Erens and Hannah Rosefield.
A literary agent on trendspotting and making something popular.
Track forward eleven minutes in to hear Laurie Halse Anderson discuss The Impossible Knife of Memory on Triple R’s Aural Text.
‘There are few writers who so acutely and seductively frame the eternally wounded, stupidly brave teenager inside a grown woman’s heart.’ Bookforum reviews Elena Ferrante’s The Story of a New Name, the second book in the Neapolitan series, which started with Read more
‘I choose areas I’d quite like to explore and then the novel’s an excuse for exploring it.’ Margaret Drabble interviewed in the Australian. Margaret Drabble will be a guest of the Perth Writers Festival (February 20-23) and Adelaide Writers' Week (March 1-6).
Rebecca Mead’s lifelong relationship with George Eliot’s most beloved novel forms the basis of The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot, which has been striking a chord with readers and reviewers around the world.
Oy, Frankenstein: the five least watchable book-to-movie adaptations.
Cats: peeing on your books since the fifteenth century.
29 things you must read before you get married, if you want to change your mind about the whole marriage thing, maybe?
50 books by women authors to read for #readwomen2014, including Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend and Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being—at number 1!
Nobody uses ‘usen’t to’ any more—and the Read more
Now that the first major heatwave has passed, there is officially no way we can delude ourselves that the holidays are still here.
The telemovie adaptation of Peter Temple’s The Broken Shore, starring Don Hany and Claudia Karvan, screens this Sunday 2 February on ABC1.
Read an extract from Rebecca Mead’s book about her love affair with George Eliot’s Middlemarch, The Road to Middlemarch, in the New Yorker. The Road to Middlemarch is out tomorrow.
Judging books by their (UK v US) covers.
Thomas Mallon and Daniel Mendelsohn on the question: Read more
