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The Guardian’s Tim Lott has a post today chronicling what he believes to be the Top 10 Summers in fiction (reproduced below). What do you think? What would you add? I think it’s a solid list, though I’d want to include The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper […]

Look, even the most devout and voracious reader has to come up for air sometimes to prevent our eyes from crossing. And when we do, surely we must dip a toe into the waters of other hobbies. What’s nice, though, is how many of those hobbies can still sneakily support our bibliohabits. Film-watching, of course, […]

Big congratulations to Ali Smith, whose novel How to Be Both has been announced the winner of this year’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. The book has been called eloquent and lyrical, unusual and magical, and a modern revelation. This year marks 20 years of the prize, which was formerly known as the Orange Prize […]