Please share widely - the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. We’re thrilled to have the wonderful Philip Pullman as a judge - Martha was such a fan of his books

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My review of Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road which is boisterous & engrossing & made me never want to move back to London
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'Thank you for the intelligence and the light you brought into my life': Leïla Slimani remembers Maryse Condé, who has died aged 90
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Great to see Kathryn Scanlan win a Windham-Campbell prize. I won't forget her weird and wonderful short stories in The Dominant Animal
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Why we cannot help but turn our lives into story: a new novel from the playful and philosophical Jonathan Buckley theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

'Though The Morningside could be called dystopian, it feels hopeful in the way it imagines the near future': an interesting take on folktale and cli-fi from the Tiger's Wife author theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Amis meets Highsmith to discuss Wodehouse - irresistible stuff. theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

A great review here from Benjamin Myers. theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

Delighted to announce the longlist for Jhalak Prize 2024

Each of these books is a literary gem, to be admired, loved and treasured forever.

Our immense gratitude to the writers, creatives, publishers for bringing us this treasure trove!
#jhalakprize24

Brilliant winners of this year's TheWritersPrize and lovely to see the spotlight on Liz Berry - here's our review theguardian.com/books/2023/apr…

Especially pleased to see Maya Binyam's Hangman and Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren on the Women's prize longlist
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A fascinating conversation here.

The opening lines from Intermezzo, the new novel from Sally Rooney. Coming September 2024.

Sally Rooney klaxon... theguardian.com/books/2024/feb…

The #WalterScottPrize for Historical Fiction has announced its 2024 longlist, alongside news of a change of management to Abbotsford. Discover the twelve books longlisted for the £25,000 prize: bit.ly/WSPll24

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I’m a judge on the novel & short story strands of The London Library’s Emerging Writer Programme this year, and there’s just one week left to apply. It’s a great opportunity with NO upper age limit (ie it takes real life into account) londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-em…

'A phantasmagoric narrative of female vanishings and erasure': Wendy Erskine reviews Joelle Taylor's debut novel theguardian.com/books/2024/feb…

Got one of those ancestry kits for Christmas and now my inbox is full of emails headed 'We're extracting your DNA'

'Wild, bold writing in league with perfectly clear thinking': Sarah Moss reviews Lara Pawson's Spent Light, a book prompted by the objects around us theguardian.com/books/2024/jan…