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Show me your downstairs loo and I will tell you who you are. Better yet, show me your kitchen, bedroom, billiard room and man cave. Can we know a man – or woman – by their house? The ‘footsteps’ approach to biography argues that to really understand a subject, a biographer must visit his childhood
The winner will be announced at the Award Night readings in the Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast later this month. The Shortlist includes: The English Summer, by Holly Hopkins (Penned in the Margins, 2022) Slide, by Mark Pajak (Jonathan Cape, 2022) Th
ATEF ALSHAER surveys the rich tradition of Palestinian literature from Ottoman times, through the tragic dispossession of 1948 to the present day
Josie Long’s first story collection brims with wry wit, Mark Cocker pays philosophical tribute to the swift, and Mark Vanhoenacker offers a pilot’s-eye view of urban life
As writers, artists and campaigners gather at this year’s Hay festival, we ask them to pick titles that inspire new ways of thinking