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    Novelist and academic David Lodge dies at 89

    Novelist and academic David Lodge dies at 89

    His criticism, plays, biographies, memoirs and television scripts stand alongside celebrated novels like The British Museum is Falling Down, the Booker-shortlisted Small World and Nice Work, Therapy, Deaf Sentence and A Man of Parts, and show the range of a writer who was fascinated by everything the written word could achieve.”


    Kazuo Ishiguro, Jacqueline Wilson and Alan Hollinghurst recognised in King Charles New Year’s Honours list

    Kazuo Ishiguro, Jacqueline Wilson and Alan Hollinghurst recognised in King Charles New Year’s Honours list

    And it makes me even more determined to keep telling stories that draw attention to the persecution and oppression endured by queer people in the past and contrast this with how much better things are in the present, in order to celebrate the progress we’ve made as a society.


    Shop the 14 winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2024: Top books

    Shop the 14 winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2024: Top books

    “Romance queen Emily Henry takes home her fourth consecutive GCA with ‘Funny Story,’ an instructive modern parable about a heartbroken librarian who attempts an extremely tricky maneuver: hooking up with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex.