The 100 best British novels, as chosen by international critics
Zeljka Marosevic
In this season of “Best of” lists, BBC Culture has outdone everyone. Rather than produce a list of the best books of the year, BBC has compiled a list of… Read more »
In this season of “Best of” lists, BBC Culture has outdone everyone. Rather than produce a list of the best books of the year, BBC has compiled a list of… Read more »
Hilary Mantel has had a smash success with her Tudor-era historical novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, recently turned into a successful TV adaptation by the BBC, airing… Read more »
Topics discussed: Tim Parks, length, reader feedback (write to us!), Michael Schaub, Ben Carson, thinkpieces, Hillary Kelly, The Way We Publish Now, serialization, cookie cutting (metaphorically), Jonathan Franzen, Harper Lee,… Read more »
British television audiences have experienced their fair share of the grim and gloomy in recent times. Scandi-crime exports such as ‘The Killing’ and ‘The Bridge’ brought hard violence and murder… Read more »
No longer content merely to perform William Shakespeare’s history plays about the Lancastrian and Tudor kings, the Royal Shakespeare Company started performing stage adaptations of Hilary Mantel’s historical novels, Wolf… Read more »
In the past few years Hilary Mantel has become a literary superstar, winning a second Booker for her Thomas Cromwell series and being made a Dame in 2014 for her… Read more »
Hilary Mantel’s award-winning series of novels about Thomas Cromwell are getting the big adaptation treatment from the BBC, and as of last week, they’ve found their royal actor: Damian Lewis,… Read more »
Two recent articles, one for The New York Times by OR publisher Colin Robinson and one in Monday’s Guardian point to what may soon be a dismal reality in publishing,… Read more »
The Booker Prize is not perfect. Anyone who does not have a book shortlisted on any given year can tell you with annoyance just how much (too much) of books… Read more »
The wait is finally over. After month upon month of speculation, after even mainstream press had worked themselves into a lather and British tabloid editors had long since lost their… Read more »