Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Week four: readers' responsesThe strongest collective response to Marilynne Robinson's discussion of her novel Gilead at the Guardian book club was non-verbal. She was asked about the wife of the book's narrator, John Ames, a woman more than 30 years y...
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Week four: readers' responsesThe strongest collective response to Marilynne Robinson's discussion of her novel Gilead at the Guardian book club was non-verbal. She was asked about the wife of the book's narrator, John Ames, a woman more than 30 years y...
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Week four: readers' responsesThe strongest collective response to Marilynne Robinson's discussion of her novel Gilead at the Guardian book club was non-verbal. She was asked about the wife of the book's narrator, John Ames, a woman more than 30 years y...
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Week four: readers' responsesThe strongest collective response to Marilynne Robinson's discussion of her novel Gilead at the Guardian book club was non-verbal. She was asked about the wife of the book's narrator, John Ames, a woman more than 30 years y...
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Week four: readers' responsesThe strongest collective response to Marilynne Robinson's discussion of her novel Gilead at the Guardian book club was non-verbal. She was asked about the wife of the book's narrator, John Ames, a woman more than 30 years y...
Ten questions on Jane Austen
The plot of which Austen novel relies on the weather? Where does Wickham have a tryst with Georgiana Darcy? And which character says 'I hate money'? Accuracy is Austen's genius, and asking specific questions about her work reveals its clevernessJane Au...
John Mullan’s 10 best trials
From Salem hysteria to racial prejudice in the Raj, here are some of the most memorable court scenes in literatureThe White Devil by John Webster Vittoria Corombona is tried for the murder of her husband, Camillo (who has in fact been killed at her bro...
Guardian book club: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Week one: parataxisMarilynne Robinson's novel Gilead is the narrative of Congregationalist minister John Ames, who, in his 70s and near death, writes a kind of letter addressed to his seven-year-old son. Robinson has fashioned for Ames an extraordinary...
John Mullan’s 10 of the best: babies
From chaste maids to smiling newbornsA Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton This comedy is set in the City of London during Lent. Allwit sees his wife's baby produced on stage, to the satisfaction of Sir Walter Whorehound, the true father. Me...
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Week four: readers' responsesHow would any of us have behaved as citizens of Nazi Germany or of the lands it occupied during the second world war? This question has been put so often as to have become a cliché; Fatherland imagines a rather different q...
John Mullan’s ten of the best: Aprils
From Chaucer, through Orwell and Larkin to Plath, John Mullan finds a range of views on the cruellest monthThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer April is here and everyone is beginning to feel frisky. "Whan that aprill with his shoures soo...
Guardian Book Club: Fatherland by Robert Harris
Week two: discoveriesOne of the two genres to which Fatherland belongs, the police procedural, is structured around discoveries. It begins conventionally, with the discovery of a body, and in pursuit of an explanation uncovers a complex conspiracy. It ...
