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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

The Diary of Virginia Woolf review – a book for the ages

Woolf’s epic and unmatchable record of her life, times and writing process

The Guardian - UK · Jun 22, 2023

The Guardian view on Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists: why we love a list

Editorial: Yes, they are marketing tools – but cataloguing culture says much about the society we live in

The Guardian - UK · Apr 21, 2023

Why so much hype? Being on Granta’s best young novelists list has its drawbacks

In 2013, I was one of the chosen 20. Today, I still question the accolades and gimmickry around making the grade

The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 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

Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists – meet the class of 23

From Kazuo Ishiguro to Zadie Smith, Granta’s list has been spotlighting future stars since 1983. Four decades on, what does its evolution says about our literary landscape?

The Guardian - UK · Apr 15, 2023

Granta reveals its pick of future star British novelists

The journal’s once-in-a-decade selection of the best fiction writers under 40 has broadened its selection of 20 to include authors who ‘regard the UK as their home’

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2023

Catherine Lacey: ‘That constant nervous Twitter energy repels me’

The American novelist, whose latest work is a fake biography of an avant-garde artist, on growing up in Mississippi and why her fiction has ‘never actively involved cellphones or the internet’

The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2023

Melanie McFadyean obituary

Campaigning journalist and lecturer who won the Bar Council legal reporting award for her coverage of joint enterprise law

The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2023