Danica Novgorodoff’s “innovative” graphic novel adaptation of Jason Reynolds’ novel Long Way Down has won the Yoto Kate Greenaway medal, making it the first graphic novel to win the illustration prize since Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas in 1973. Meanwhile, Katya Balen has won the Yoto Carnegie medal, which celebrates outstanding
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Tell us: what have you been reading this month?
As part of The Guardian’s “what we’re reading” series, we would like to hear about the books you’ve particularly enjoyed this month. Have you read a book in recent weeks – fiction or non-fiction – that you’d recommend? Tell us all about it below. Share your recommendations You can get
James Patterson apologizes for saying white male authors face ‘racism’
The bestselling author James Patterson has apologized for saying white male authors face “another form of racism”. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Patterson said white male authors faced such a problem in industries including film and publishing. “What’s that all about? Can you get a job? Yes. Is
Love and the Novel by Christina Lupton review – an intimate literary journey
For many of us, books are an important part of our lives – but do we want them to change our ideas about how to live? Is there a danger that living alongside fictional narrators will make us too reckless? This may be the case especially when it comes to
We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets review – confessions of a content moderator
When he launched his takeover of Twitter earlier this year, Elon Musk sparked consternation by declaring he would loosen the social media platform’s content moderation policies – a move that could set Twitter on a collision course with the EU’s digital regulators. In an online world rife with offensive and
When I Grow Up by Moya Sarner review
What’s going to happen to the children, when there aren’t any more grownups?” sang Noël Coward, satirising the self-indulgent hedonism of the 1920s. But Coward’s ironic lyrics seem even more relevant today when the traditional values of adulthood, self-control, self-sufficiency and the willingness to take responsibility have become sources of
Yell, Sam, If You Still Can by Maylis Besserie review – Beckett’s last days
Maylis Besserie does not lack for daring. Her novel is a fictional account of the last months of Samuel Beckett’s life, which he spent in a Paris nursing home, Résidence Tiers Temps. As she says in an author’s note, the book “reconstructs a version of Beckett from real and imaginary
Faïza Guène: ‘People wanted me to say: Thank you, France’
Faïza Guène is the bestselling, award-winning French-Algerian author of six novels largely set among the Algerian community living in the outskirts of Paris. She shot to fame in 2004 at 19 with the publication of Kiffe kiffe demain (Just Like Tomorrow), which used street slang to capture the world of
The Social Distance Between Us by Darren McGarvey review – it’s a long, long way from Westminster
A hundred pages into The Social Distance Between Us, the Scottish writer, broadcaster and rapper Darren McGarvey describes the time he spent in Aberdeen while he was filming a series for the BBC. The city, he muses, may well be Scotland’s most beautiful metropolis, where “beams reflect off the granite,
Love and the Novel by Christina Lupton review – can you live life by the book?
Not so long ago, there was something of a craze in publishing for books about reading, one for which I didn’t much care at the time. But Christina Lupton’s Love and the Novel has little in common with the platitudinous manuals that particular trend delivered to the common reader. Its