Yellow Dog by Martin Amis review – Bill Nighy has a ball From spoof monarch to porn tycoon, the actor narrator goes to town on the larger-than-life characters in this Booker-nominated satire The Guardian - UK · Sep 24
The Guardian view on booming poetry sales: Homer, meet the Instapoets Editorial: In an unexpected twist, a Hollywood epic has contributed to Britain’s best-ever half-year in poetry sales The Guardian - UK · Aug 14
The Guardian view on Middlemarch: the greatest novel in the English language Editorial: George Eliot’s masterpiece of provincial life still has much to teach us about sympathy and tolerance The Guardian - UK · May 16
Who’s in, who’s out, and how many have you read? The story behind our 100 best novels list Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights. Ulysses or Catch-22 … Find out which title came top, as chosen by authors, critics and academics worldwide The Guardian - UK · May 16
The rise of the literary nepo baby? The children of famous novelists on following in their parents’ footsteps From Naomi Ishiguro to Jess Atwood Gibson, more children of high profile writers are becoming authors themselves. Parents and their literary offspring discuss the pressures of measuring up The Guardian - UK · May 9
The Illuminated Man by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan review – an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard The biographer’s terminal illness and death is woven into this original and moving account of Ballard and his work The Guardian - UK · Apr 20
Yann Martel: ‘I hate the rich people of this world – of which I’m one, because of Life of Pi’ The Canadian author on good writing advice from Martin Amis, his love for digging and getting rid of billionaires The Guardian - AU · Apr 18
The UK has a chance to pioneer pornography regulation – it must take it The crime bill proposes a stronger model of consent – and with violent imagery and child sexual abuse soaring, who, really, can argue against it? says author Susanna Rustin The Guardian - UK · Mar 31
The Quantity Theory of Morality by Will Self review – raucously inventive state-of-the-nation satire Thirty-five years on from his debut collection The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Self takes aim at London’s chattering classes in an excoriating vision of moral decline The Guardian - UK · Mar 4
Styles guide: is Harry’s album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. grammatically correct? The follow-up to 2022’s Harry’s House boasts an esoteric title – but experts say ambiguity might be the goal The Guardian - US · Jan 22
Thursday briefing: Thirty years of the Women’s prize for fiction – have male novelists been edged out? In today’s newsletter: As the literary award marks its 30th anniversary, the debate about whether it is relevant when women dominate bestsellers list has resurfaced The Guardian - UK · Jan 1
Memoirs, myths and Midnight’s Children: Salman Rushdie’s 10 best books – ranked! As the author publishes a new story collection, we rate the work that made his name – from his dazzling Booker winner to an account of the 2022 attack that nearly killed him The Guardian - UK · Nov 17, 2025
The Guardian view on the Booker prize winner: putting masculinity back at the centre of literary fiction Editorial: David Szalay’s Flesh breaks from a decade of female-centred interiors and reopens a genre many thought closed to men The Guardian - UK · Nov 14, 2025
From White Teeth to Swing Time: Zadie Smith’s best books - ranked! Twenty-five years on from her dazzling debut, and as a new collection of essays comes out, we assess the British author’s best books The Guardian - UK · Oct 27, 2025
The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2025 Literary mystery meets dystopian future in Ian McEwan's 'What We Can Know' Ian McEwan has released his 19th novel which is titled “What We Can Know.”
Evening Standard · Sep 15, 2025 Best books about London: Tales that capture the essence of the world's best city From the satirical to the sublime, these books are simply, quintessentially, London
The Guardian - UK · Jun 2, 2025 Billy Williams obituary Cinematographer who won an Oscar for Gandhi but did his most adventurous work on Ken Russell’s Women in Love
The Walrus · Feb 1, 2025 “Made a Difference to My Whole Existence”: Why Childhood Reading Matters Books are the platform on which everything else is built
The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2025 When did film violence become so real, wondered Martin Amis in 1994 The novelist, who liked onscreen horror but hated the real kind, compared actual murders and Child’s Play 3
The Guardian - UK · Dec 8, 2024 Anthony Cummins’s best fiction of 2024 From Sally Rooney’s funny and observant latest to Joseph O’Neill’s compelling Godwin and Sarah Manguso’s gripping portrayal of a broken marriage, these are the year’s most enjoyable novels
The Guardian - UK · Oct 18, 2024 The Guardian view on female artists: a force to be reckoned with Editorial: Tracey Emin is right, women keep on creating into old age. Their work is finally getting the attention it deserves
The Conversation · Oct 10, 2024 Female Nazi concentration camp guards: the true horror lies in their similarities to ourselves Between 1939 and 1945, around 10% of concentration camp guards were women, yet these Aufseherinnen (overseers) as they were known, barely feature in Holocaust history or literature. On the few occasions they do appear, it is most commonly as a masculinised sadist when the reality was much more complex.
The Independent UK · Jun 12, 2024 Martin Amis’s widow to receive knighthood on husband’s behalf Acclaimed author first person to be on honours list after death
Evening Standard · Jun 11, 2024 Zadie Smith: Martin Amis riled me with questions like 'Women not funny. Discuss?' Smith was among the famous faces who paid tribute to Amis at his memorial service
The Independent UK · May 27, 2024 What I learnt from my teacher Martin Amis, reveals millennial novelist Coco Mellors The ‘Cleopatra and Frankenstein’ author also told Hay Festival audiences that being a mother is not ‘an enemy to being an artist’