Fiction
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Joanna Kavenna: ‘History is littered with people who have said, “This is the only reality”’The award-winning novelist on the beauty and agonies of life, grief and why philosophy should be for everyone
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Addlands by Tom Bullough review – colourful farming sagaThis decades-spanning story of a family is laced with humour and vividly told
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‘You can’t abandon your reader in a howling wasteland’Sarah Moss’s novel Night Waking won the hearts of sleep-deprived mothers. Now she turns her attention to teenagers, parental stereotypes and satisfying endings
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Wheel life and fiction: bicycling in literatureFrom Simone De Beauvoir’s two-wheeled image of emancipation to HG Wells’s mapping of Martian landing sites, there are many fascinating cycle paths through books
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It feels more honest to write fictionThe author on his journey from non‑fiction to writing a historical novel set in New York
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Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan by Ruth Gilligan review – tales of the Irish-Jewish experienceThis complex historical novel follows in the footsteps of Joyce, ranging from the arrival of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants to the London diaspora
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Beast by Paul Kingsnorth review – a brilliant follow-up to The WakeIn the blisteringly intense second volume of Kingsnorth’s trilogy, a man alone on the moor is hunted by a mysterious foe
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Cynthia Bond: 'I get why so many writers are alcoholics!'The author of Ruby talks about how she immersed herself in an agonising history of abuse, echoed in her own life, to write her much acclaimed debut novel
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Russian literature webchat – as it happenedConcluding our look at The Master and Margarita, translator and Russian literature expert Hugh Aplin joined us to talk about Bulgakov’s novel and the difficulties found in translating Russian to English
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes story about Donald Trump's wife MelaniaThe Arrangements, which is also a homage to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, imagines what life is like for the presidential candidate’s wife
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Top 10 New York novelsFrom Edith Wharton to Jennifer Egan, the city has inspired countless stories, all of them sharing one major character – the metropolis itself
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Lois Duncan obituaryBestselling author of fiction for young adults, including the thriller I Know What You Did Last Summer
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Game of Thrones: how will Winds of Winter regain the suspense stolen by the show?For those reading George RR Martin’s fantasy series, HBO’s dramatisation has been thrilling – but now it’s ahead of the books, it will be hard work to surprise us
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Locus awards go to Ann Leckie, Naomi Novik and other starsPrestigious science fiction and fantasy prizes also honour work by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman and George RR Martin
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Dystopian Ukraine novel, written on Facebook during protests, gets English translationKaharlyk by Oleh Shynkarenko, a novel that began as Facebook posts to evade censors, tells story of man whose brain is controlled by Russian army
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