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Best new books to read this autumn, from Rebecca Yarros to Louise Kennedy

From stranger-than-fiction memoirs to historical novels and essay collections, dive into these pages for autumn

Evening Standard · Jun 2

Elizabeth Strout: ‘It’s a tough thing to be creative and have children’

INTERVIEW: After Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is back with a brand new protagonist in her 11th novel, ‘The Things We Never Say’. The chronicler of small-town despair, loved by Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith, tells Jessie Thompson why her books are so full of loneliness…

The Independent UK · May 12

The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout review – readers will delight in these new characters

The Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton author branches out with the tale of a Massachusetts teacher haunted by trauma

The Guardian - UK · Apr 27

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout review – characters that never grow old

Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton return, the former now in a retirement community, in the author’s understated but hugely rewarding study of small-town life

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2024

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout review – when Olive Kitteridge met Lucy Barton

The worlds of Strout’s previous books converge in this quietly stunning novel of interlocking stories

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2024

Elizabeth Strout: ‘All ordinary people are extraordinary’

The Pulitzer prize winner on uniting Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton in her new novel, her unfathomable dreams, and how she went from ‘blabbermouth’ to writer

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2024

The best new novels for autumn 2024, from Sally Rooney to Jonathan Coe and Haruki Murakami

The biggest names are back in a stellar season for fiction, with rip-roaring feminist horror, revenge tales, family sagas, spy romps and more. Here’s our essential guide

The Guardian - UK · Aug 25, 2024

Holiday reading list: 10 standout books you’ll love under a beach umbrella

The holidays are a great time to bury yourself in a new read, so here are 10 books to keep you reading over the break.    

The New Daily · Dec 25, 2022

Holiday books: Fiction

“The Marriage Portrait,” by Maggie O’Farrell. (Knopf, $28.)

Tribune News Service · Dec 7, 2022

Elizabeth Strout's Lucy By the Sea: a claustrophobic portrait of a terrible pandemic year

In her latest novel, Lucy by the Sea, Elizabeth Strout captures the bewilderment of us all at the onset of the pandemic. Her character Lucy Barton admits not only did she not see it coming, but even when she did notice the virus’s existence, she did not really believe it…

The Conversation · Oct 3, 2022