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‘I want some light in my life’: eight writers make their new year reading resolutions

Finding fun, getting lost in an epic and taking a first peek at science fiction ... Sathnam Sanghera, Elif Shafak, Sarah Waters and more make their reading resolutions for 2024

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Why are biographies so popular? Because humans are enthralled by the lives of others

We seek inspiration, consolation – and the unvarnished truth. And we know that all the best stories are true, says Caroline Knox, director of the Boswell book festival

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Sheena Patel’s cultural highlights

The writer and director on a blockbuster biography of Jean Rhys, Steve McQueen’s Grenfell film and the car crash brilliance of US comedy Search Party

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Woman, modernist, West Indian: the haunted life of Jean Rhys

The life of Dominican-born writer Jean Rhys is at once well-known and mysterious. Her career dipped and soared across both halves of the last century, across changes of name (Ella Gwendoline “Gwen” Rees Williams, Ella Lenglet, Jean Rhys) and changes of location (West Indies, England, Europe).

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Review: 'I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys,' by Miranda Seymour

NONFICTION: The author of "Wide Sargasso Sea" had a complicated and turbulent life.

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I Used to Live Here Once by Miranda Seymour – beyond the Sargasso Sea

A new biography of Jean Rhys explores the relationship between her turbulent life and her brilliant work

The Guardian - UK

I Used to Live Here Once by Miranda Seymour review – the troubled life of Jean Rhys

The author emerges from this compelling biography as a difficult outsider whose twin passions were feckless men and drink

The Guardian - UK

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Where to start with: Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys’s prequel to Jane Eyre, is a set text in schools but are you familiar with the rest of the Dominica-born writer’s work? This handy guide from her biographer will help you find a way in

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