Penelope Fitzgerald
New horizons: music, art, books and more to get out of a rut
From hit novels by late bloomers to artists turned chess masters, our critics select culture that revels in reinvention
11, Sep, 2023 @9:00 AM
Top 10 books about performance – the lives of actors and musicians | Imogen Crimp
The challenge of capturing the triumphs and crushing failures of the stage and concert hall in words has been taken on by writers from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf and Eimear McBride
Imogen Crimp
27, Apr, 2022 @2:28 PM
The green-eyed monster syndrome doth mock Othello | Susannah Clapp
It’s unfair to name a jealousy disorder after Shakespeare’s tricked hero. Who might be more apt?
Susannah Clapp
11, Dec, 2021 @5:00 PM
Top 10 books about Florence
Seducing writers from Boccaccio to EM Forster, this city has given us gossipy and rich histories, and a shadowy backdrop to crime
Christobel Kent
26, Aug, 2020 @9:48 AM
David Nicholls: 'Gifting books feels like changing the music at someone else’s party'
The author and screenwriter on being inspired by Tess of the D’Urbervilles, feeling gloomy over Moomins and rereading Franny and Zooey
David Nicholls
10, Aug, 2020 @11:00 AM
Top 10 fictional takes on real lives
From Woody Allen reimagining Van Gogh as a dentist, to Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian, the joint winners of the Republic of Consciousness prize select the best reimaginings
Will Eaves and Alex Pheby
03, Apr, 2019 @2:41 PM
Andrew Miller: ‘Should I have read Don Quixote? War and Peace? Huckleberry Finn? Probably'
The novelist on why Penelope Fitzgerald is underrated and the book that changed his mind about science fiction
Andrew Miller
21, Dec, 2018 @10:01 AM
Top 10 fictional booksellers
From Italo Calvino to Iain Sinclair and Alison Bechdel, literary retailers have been at the centre of some wild, dark dramas
Bartholomew Bennett
12, Dec, 2018 @10:33 AM
Book clinic: which authors can be likened to Julian Barnes?
Comparisons to the Man Booker prize-winner are tricky, but our expert suggests an excellent starting point
Rachel Cooke
01, Sep, 2018 @5:00 PM
The Bookshop review – boldly sombre drama puts Britain to rights
Emily Mortimer plays the quietly heroic shop owner at the heart of this fascinating Penelope Fitzgerald adaptation
Peter Bradshaw
29, Jun, 2018 @5:00 AM
Penelope Lively picks five books about renewal
From horticulture to tsarist Russia, the novelist chooses works that represent new growth
Penelope Lively
26, Mar, 2018 @5:00 AM
Penelope Fitzgerald's papers acquired by British Library
Curator says documents, which include unpublished diaries and notebooks for the author’s first novel, are ‘a great source to be mined’
Alison Flood
01, Dec, 2017 @2:53 PM
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