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...
Itch: The Explosive Adventures of an Element Hunter by Simon Mayo – review
A mad scientist, a radioactive element … Simon Mayo's romp includes scientific knowhow and an amiable heroYou'd have to work quite hard not to like Itchingham Lofte. He's an old-fashioned 14-year-old, ordinary but obsessive. He collects elements the ...
Itch: The Explosive Adventures of an Element Hunter by Simon Mayo – review
A mad scientist, a radioactive element … Simon Mayo's romp includes scientific knowhow and an amiable heroYou'd have to work quite hard not to like Itchingham Lofte. He's an old-fashioned 14-year-old, ordinary but obsessive. He collects elements the ...
Itch: The Explosive Adventures of an Element Hunter by Simon Mayo – review
A mad scientist, a radioactive element … Simon Mayo's romp includes scientific knowhow and an amiable heroYou'd have to work quite hard not to like Itchingham Lofte. He's an old-fashioned 14-year-old, ordinary but obsessive. He collects elements the ...
Itch: The Explosive Adventures of an Element Hunter by Simon Mayo – review
A mad scientist, a radioactive element … Simon Mayo's romp includes scientific knowhow and an amiable heroYou'd have to work quite hard not to like Itchingham Lofte. He's an old-fashioned 14-year-old, ordinary but obsessive. He collects elements the ...
Itch: The Explosive Adventures of an Element Hunter by Simon Mayo – review
A mad scientist, a radioactive element … Simon Mayo's romp includes scientific knowhow and an amiable heroYou'd have to work quite hard not to like Itchingham Lofte. He's an old-fashioned 14-year-old, ordinary but obsessive. He collects elements the ...
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...
Can I teach you how to be a writer?
Jeanette Winterson believes that learning how to write, even reasonably well, gives fluency to the rest of lifeHi, I'm currently doing a creative writing essay and I'd like to ask for advice on how you would describe a bomb …That is my favourite Goog...
HHhH by Laurent Binet
Does its po-mo surface diminish this true story?A breezily charming novel, with a thrilling story that also happens to be true, by a gifted young author amusingly anguished over the question of how to tell it … In principle there's nothing not to lik...
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan – review
A gritty debut novel set in a society without safety nets"Eric's … on the lamest power trip in the world – the decider of how long it takes for me to get a tampon," says Anais, a 15-year-old stuck in a care home, as she waits for a social work...
