Candice Carty-Williams
Shove over, stale males! Meet the working-class women storming TV
Television has been dominated by middle-class men for far too long. Now, a glorious wave of female drama makers are proudly putting their roots on screen
Hollie Richardson
06, May, 2022 @12:00 PM
People Person by Candice Carty-Williams review – Daddy issues
The breezily enjoyable follow-up to Queenie explores the legacy of a gallivanting Jamaican patriarch, when his five adult children are unexpectedly thrown together
Sharlene Teo
27, Apr, 2022 @6:30 AM
People Person by Candice Carty-Williams review – sharp witted but contrived family drama
The Queenie author’s follow-up loses the plot in this tale of five estranged siblings, a neglectful father and a dead body
Kadish Morris
24, Apr, 2022 @9:00 AM
Candice Carty-Williams: ‘It’s time to write a book just about Black people’
How do you follow a game-changing, award-winning debut? Candice Carty-Williams on Queenie, binning her second novel, and how People Person draws on life with eight siblings
Lisa Allardice
23, Apr, 2022 @8:00 AM
Children’s books roundup – the best new picture books and novels
Schnauzers in trousers, a Diwali sparkler and Lenny Henry’s kids’ fiction debut, plus the best new YA
Imogen Russell Williams
22, Oct, 2021 @11:00 AM
‘I turned against Keisha the Sket for a long time’: Jade LB on returning to her noughties viral story
The author was just 13 when her anonymous tales of a London teenager spread across the UK. More than a decade on, Stormzy’s Merky books imprint is bringing Keisha back
Candice Carty-Williams
09, Oct, 2021 @8:00 AM
Top 10 millennial heroines in fiction | Emily Austin
From Marianne in Normal People to Edie in Luster, these very different young women share pressures and anxieties specific to their era
Emily Austin
04, Aug, 2021 @12:56 PM
'I am a pessimistic optimist': Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie answers authors' questions
Named the ‘winner of winners’ of the Women’s prize, Bernardine Evaristo, Maggie O’Farrell and others ask the author about the #EndSars protests in Nigeria, writing about Trump, and the culture that got her through 2020
04, Dec, 2020 @9:00 AM
Top 10 books about consent
From Thomas Hardy to Kristen Roupenian, literature offers a changing map of the treacherous terrain of sexual relationships
Mia Levitin
25, Nov, 2020 @10:36 AM
Is David Nicholls's TV adaptation of Us better than his novel? I was crying too hard to compare them
Watching all four episodes in one sitting reminded me of how poignant this tale of marital crisis is
Candice Carty-Williams
17, Oct, 2020 @7:00 AM
Music videos hold the key to storytelling – if only I could bottle their power | Candice Carty-Williams
From Kano’s ‘Teardrops’ to Kool & the Gang’s fairytale ‘Fresh’ … music videos can distil the truth
Candice Carty-Williams
19, Sep, 2020 @7:00 AM
Evaristo and Carty-Williams become first black authors to win top British Book awards
Candice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo take book of the year and author of the year categories, as publishers face criticism for treatment of black authors
Alison Flood
29, Jun, 2020 @5:45 PM
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