The Latest Breaking News from Megan Nolan

Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist

The £10,000 award, whose judges include Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan, recognises ‘mould-breaking’ fiction

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2025

New York is the worst place in the world, my taxi driver told me. Not that night, not to me

I looked at Manhattan, trying to work out how a person like me could exist in it. The snow settled on my lashes and I knew I was home, says writer Megan Nolan

The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2024

Anne Enright and Isabella Hammad make the Women’s prize for fiction longlist

Three Irish authors – including Claire Kilroy and Megan Nolan – and Booker-shortlisted Brit Chetna Maroo sit among the 16 nominees, eight of them debut novels

The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2024

Single minded: people with public lives on the pleasures of solitude

Joe Lycett likes to get into nature, chef Ravinder Bhogal strolls around her local area, Kirsty Wark heads for a Scottish loch… Nine famous faces reveal how they like to spend time when they’re on their own

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2023

Awards and sales bring anxiety and ego, say young authors

Success in literary London can cause problems

Evening Standard · Aug 16, 2023

Summer books: the hottest novels to bring you holiday bliss, whatever the weather

Whether you fancy a politicised love story, a look into the lives of the super-rich or the fictional autobiography of a medieval mystic, Alex Peake-Tomkinson has the coolest must-reads to distract — whatever the extreme weather

Evening Standard · Aug 4, 2023

Don’t meal-shame me: a table for one at a restaurant I love is the ultimate indulgence

One London restaurant has a minimum spend for solo diners. Doesn’t it understand the pleasure of taking yourself to dinner, asks writer Megan Nolan

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2023

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan and The Baby Does A Runner by Anita Rani.

The Independent UK · Jul 19, 2023

‘I grew up on an “estate from hell” but I have no idea what class I am’: novelist Megan Nolan on the conundrum of identity

Growing up in the Ballybeg area of Waterford, the author never gave a thought to her origins. But seeing her home demonised in the media made her think about what it really means to be working class

The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2023

Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan review – lyrical tale of a family accused

An Irish family in early 90s London become tabloid scapegoats in this politically astute novel of lives foreclosed

The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2023