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Featuring the five short-listed stories for the BBC National Short Story Award, this collection brings together a high-caliber group of new and established British authors exploring human relationships at their most dysfunctional and yet sustaining. Splintered families, the persistence of love, the public versus the private, and the plight of the outsider provide recurring themes in this 2010 selection of works. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Review: "Every sentence is both unpredictable and exactly what it should be. Reading them is a series of short shocks of (agree...

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As our thoughts turn to life after the pandemic, authors from this year’s Hay festival choose books that have inspired lasting change in them

The best (and worst) novels of 2021 so far In this regularly updated guide, our critics review the best of the year's fiction – and suggest a few books to avoid Eight of the best: this year's top novels The Start-Up Wife by Tahmima Anam ★★★☆☆ Tahmima Anam is best known as the award-winning writer of three novels (A Golden Age, The Good Muslim and The Bones of Grace), and less well-known as the executive director of a music technology startup called ROLI. An experience no doubt plumbed for her latest book, The Startup Wife, a tech industry-set reverse romcom in which a young Bangl...

Maggie O’Farrell on reading to ‘fill your soul’ Amy Sutherland © MURDO MACLEODAll Novelist Maggie O'Farrell. In her award-winning, best-selling novel, “Hamnet,” Maggie O’Farrell imagines life in 16th-century England when the Black Plague claims the life of an 11-year-old boy who happens to be the only son of a budding playwright. The Irish-born author grew up in Wales and Scotland, where she now lives in Edinburgh with her family. Her previous book was the memoir, “I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death.” “Hamnet,” her eighth novel, is out in pap...