The Latest Breaking News from Eliza Clark

Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is more complicated

IN FOCUS: As debates over the ‘disappearing’ young male novelist rumble on, some authors and critics push back against claims that fiction has closed its doors to men. Hannah Ewens learns that the real problem is less about publishing and more about a wider societal issue

The Independent UK · Nov 25, 2025

On my radar: Romola Garai’s cultural highlights

The actor on her love of sad songs, history podcasts and cemeteries with mysterious gravestones

The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2025

She’s Always Hungry by Eliza Clark review – dark delights

A bona-fide queen of body horror delves into fears and illicit desires in this engrossing short-story debut

The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2024

‘A smorgasbord of unlikability’: the authors helping ‘sad girl lit’ grow up

In this post-Fleabag world, publishing has become obsessed with the inner turmoils of messy millennials – but isn’t it time they pulled themselves together? Meet the novelists subverting the cliches

The Guardian - UK · Aug 8, 2023

Juno Dawson: ‘The Secret History by Donna Tartt is a deeply vibey novel’

The YA author on identifying with Armistead Maupin and learning from Malorie Blackman

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2023

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt and Kala by Colin Walsh.

The Independent UK · Jul 12, 2023

Penance by Eliza Clark review – art or porn?

Set in a northern seaside town, this show-stopping second novel is a bravura deconstruction of our voyeuristic love for true crime

The Guardian - UK · Jun 28, 2023

Eliza Clark: ‘I’m more primary school teacher than enfant terrible’

Hailed by Granta as one of Britain’s best young novelists, the author of the TikTok sensation Boy Parts talks about her new book, a crime story based on a real-life murder – and why Bret Easton Ellis wouldn’t talk to her

The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2023

On my radar: Milly Alcock’s cultural highlights

The Australian star of House of the Dragon and Upright on her favourite podcast, an immersive art experience and a novel of ugly emotions

The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2023

Granta 163: Best of Young British Novelists 5 review – more solipsism than state of the nation

The latest celebration of emerging literary talent brings thrills, charm and emotional punch to the page. But this new generation have taken an inward turn compared with the more worldly themes of bygone years

The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 2023