Features & interviews

How Kate Atkinson became our most celebrated yet enigmatic novelist

Kate Atkinson’s books have won prizes and been made into TV dramas, but the author prefers to let her work speak for itself. As her 12th novel ‘Shrines of Gaiety’ is released, Nick Duerden explores how she became one of our most brilliantly idiosyncratic bestsellers

<p>Hilary Mantel, celebrated author of ‘Wolf Hall’, has died aged 70 </p>

Hilary Mantel’s grasp on circumstance was equal to Shakespeare

Andrew Sean Greer: ‘I’m just a guy who happened to win the Pulitzer’

The enduring appeal of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, 30 years on

Melanie C: ‘Was Thatcher the first Spice Girl? Absolutely not’

AM Homes isn’t anti-American. She just writes what she sees

Books of the month: From Ian McEwan to Terry Pratchett

Sloane Crosley has written 2022’s most surreal romcom

Cosey Fanni Tutti on the unsung heroine of electronic music

Meet Nick Drnaso, the graphic novelist who disowns his own books

Why do we always sneer at beach reads?

Brian K Vaughan: ‘The US is horrified by sex in fiction’

Reviews

Emily Ratajkowski’s My Body is a candid critique on fetishisation

Sally Rooney’s new book is stimulating, but not aimed at the olds

Sarah Ferguson’s Mills & Boon novel is too chaste to set pulses racing

Finally, the Fifty Shades franchise can be put to bed

Lists

Five five super short, super satisfying books to bring on holiday

Sandra Cisneros: 10 books by Latino authors you should be reading

25 books that should have never been made into films

News

Police drop investigation into ‘online threat’ made to JK Rowling

Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel dies aged 70

Hilary Mantel’s prediction about Prince George and the royal family

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Which of Hilary Mantel books were adapted for the screen and stage?

Nicola Sturgeon leads tributes to ‘astonishing’ author Hilary Mantel