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Tuesday, 11 November 2025

The Booker goes blokey: what David Szalay's Flesh tells us about masculinity in fiction

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David Szalay's Flesh is many things: stark, relentless, deeply bodily. But above all, it may be the most blokey Booker winner we've...
Friday, 29 August 2025

When cosy meets cathartic: the revival of WWII family sagas

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There is something quietly astonishing about returning to a decades-old series and finding it not only still relevant, but newly resonant. T...
Wednesday, 12 March 2025

The art of the campus novel – what makes them work, and which are the best?

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Writing about Donna Tartt last week  and The Secret History got me thinking about the campus novel.   I’ve always been fascinated by this su...
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