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'People are craving it': writers festival brings big names to show their love of books

Andrew O'Hagan will appear at this year's Canberra Writers Festival.

The Canberra Times · Aug 27

Nicola Sturgeon says she was ‘deceived, misled and betrayed’ by Peter Murrell

In her first public appearance since her ex-husband Peter Murrell was convicted on Monday of embezzling £400,000 of SNP funds, former first…

The National (Scotland) · May 28

What went on in London this week: Ashton Kutcher on his Soho House obsession

Plus Mr Winkleman’s red carpet turn, Jason Statham’s favourite place in London, and a book that cracks open the wellness industry

Evening Standard · Jan 21

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in September

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2025

Andrew O’Hagan: ‘A kind of Dickens and Zola energy was pulsing’

The author and journalist on ‘modern London corruption’ and his Orwell prize-shortlisted novel Caledonian Road, how he helped Jonathan Franzen and the last book he gave as a gift

The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2025

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in January

Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2025

In Our Evenings, Alan Hollinghurst takes an elegiac look at class, sexuality and race in post-Brexit Britain

Late in Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel Our Evenings, the narrator David Win, gracefully ageing doyen of the British stage, experiences one of those moments when the world is revealed to be other than he thought it was.

The Conversation · Jan 13, 2025

16 best new books to read this autumn, chosen and reviewed by a bonafide bookworm

Discover debut novelists and immersive page-turners from acclaimed authors

The Independent UK · Jan 3, 2025

Elon Musk, Gauguin and are we Australia fair? The 10 best podcasts of 2024

This year saw podcasts attract widespread attention for their influence on the political agenda (a hack that goes back to 2015, when Obama caused outrage with his raw take on race on Marc Maron’s WTF).

The Conversation · Dec 29, 2024

The best fiction of 2024

From Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo to Alan Hollinghurst’s Our Evenings, Percival Everett’s James and a host of inventive debuts – this year’s highlights in fiction

The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2024