Madeleine Feeny
@MadeleineFeeny
Fiction previewer @thebookseller l freelance writer and critic
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17-05-2011 09:34:27
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I reviewed Sarah Perry's Enlightenment, which made me feel strangely modern and worldly, Telegraph Books Jonathan Cape telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-…
I really admired and enjoyed The Amendments Niamh Mulvey and am thrilled to see this great review Observer New Review Hephzibah Anderson. This novel definitely deserves your attention! theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…
My dive into Latin American fiction - the women authors leading the ‘new boom’ and the women translating them - for Guardian Books. Thanks to the translators, agents, publishers et al who spoke to me. The Booker Prizes
A joy to speak to the inimitable Miranda July about her new novel All Fours Canongate, which I shall be pressing into every paw this May. Interview in today's The Bookseller.
And Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe is such a hoot! Loved this July editor's choice The Bookseller Sceptre Books.
Another July editor's choice The Bookseller, The God of the Woods Liz Moore, held me in thrall The Borough Press.
My editor's choices are Taffy Brodesser-Akner's masterful Long Island Compromise, an unputdownable family saga that's a kind of anti-Succession Wildfire Books The Bookseller.
My July fiction preview is in today's The Bookseller, featuring my book of the month, Whoever You Are, Honey by Olivia Gatwood Hutchinson Heinemann.
The brilliant Elisa Shua Dusapin and Aneesa Abbas Higgins The London Book Fair, 11-13 March 2025 yesterday. Loved speaking to them about the translation process and their latest collaboration, Elisa's new novel Vladivostok Circus, out now DauntBooksPublishing.
Happening today The London Book Fair, 11-13 March 2025 DauntBooksPublishing Elisa Shua Dusapin Aneesa Abbas Higgins invt.io/1txbek5fc78
How wonderful to see this longlist launched after months and months of reading. A salute to the judges Eleanor Wachtel Natalie Diaz Romesh Gunesekera Aaron Robertson and William Kentridge International Booker Prize 2024 | The Booker Prizes thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…
#bookpost from the mighty Angelique Tran Van is always welcome, and especially pleased to see this anthology of new stories from The Writing Squad, which I helped select with Lauren Whybrow, edited by Marigold Atkey.
This review articulates why Help Wanted Adelle Waldman, my March book of the month, is so very worth your time. 'Launches a broader social critique under the guise of a fizzy caper ... The sentences are sandbags, loaded onto the page to drive home the cumulative weight of work.'
Plus The Bookseller ones to watch from Sarah Brooks W&N, Laura Dockrill HQ Stories, Cecy Robson 🌻 Hodderscape, Francesca Segal Chatto&Windus, Alexandra Wilson Sphere Books and Nicola updates Trapeze Books.
Who doesn't love a women's commune where things get out of hand? Amy Twigg's debut Spoilt Creatures will keep you hooked. Tinder Press The Bookseller