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After two years of COVID-delay, Bell Shakespeare’s Hamlet reflects both personal and global tragedies.
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an intriguing character study, a metafiction of a woman who was much more than a provincial wife
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As a person forced to look at Twitter as part of my job, I have heard a lot about Sally Rooney in the past. . . I want to say, two thousand years?So when her...
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The Tasmanian novelist’s second novel has won the $10,000 prize.
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Sally Rooney breathes new life into fiction. Her novels deal with ordinary life in all its unexpected ways. The *Guardian* said of Rooney’s debut novel, *[Conversations with Friends][1]*: ‘It’s rare that a novel elicits such ferocious and unmitigated awe from just about everyone you know, whether male, female, or millennial’. Rooney’s second novel, *[Normal People][2]* (published by Faber & Faber last September), was called ‘superb . . . a tremendous read, full of insight and sweetness’ by Anne Enright. Olivia Laing has stated that ‘Rooney is the best young novelist – indeed one of the best novelists – I’ve read in years.’
On the occasion of the paperback publication of *Normal People*, Rooney was in conversation with Kishani Widyaratna, editor at Picador Books and contributing editor at *The White Review*.
> **[Click here to watch the video of this event on our YouTube channel.][3]**
[1]: /on-our-shelves/book/9780571333134/conversations-with-friends
[2]: /on-our-shelves/book/9780571334650/normal-people
[3]: https://youtu.be/4jH_0rg46Es
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Jeanette Winterson’s inventive fiction has always pushed boundaries. She tells AN Devers why her new novel is taking on gender-fluidity and the rise of humanoid robots
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A fresh look at the reclusive author and his iconic anti-hero, Holden Caulfield.
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