Jacqueline Crooks

Jul 8, 2024 | theguardian.com | Jacqueline Crooks

As Labour takes power for the first time in 14 years, the Guardian has asked three writers to describe how their home towns changed under Conservative rule – and the challenges now facing Keir Starmer. Today, Jacqueline Crooks describes what has happened to London. I grew up in Southall in the 70s and 80s not far from where I landed with my mother when we emigrated from Jamaica in the 1960s. I live in Camberwell now.

Jun 6, 2024 | l8r.it | Hugo Rifkind |Maya Binyam |Jacqueline Crooks |Yiyun Li

LoveReading Says About Press Reviews Author LoveReading Says Incredibly compulsive, Hugo Rifkind’s Rabbits is a menacingly funny story of dark secrets, coming-of-age faltering, and the dirty seduction of being sucked into elite circles, in this case a middle-class boy sliding into Scottish aristocracy. Also shot-through with the mystery of a death and its protagonist’s personal loss and dislocation, Rabbits is a droll, bold, disturbing dynamo of a book.

May 2, 2024 | womensprize.com | Claire Kilroy |Jacqueline Crooks |Candice Carty-Williams |Madhumita Murgia

No plans? No problem. Our Women’s Prize library is packed with literary treasures to transport you to new and exciting worlds, all from the comfort of your favourite armchair. We’ve picked some books from our current shortlists and other treasures in our library to fill your weekend with books. What are you waiting for?

Jul 22, 2023 | link.newyorker.com | Laura Cumming |Jacqueline Crooks |Emily Nussbaum |Jill Lepore

By Laura Cumming (Scribner)Nonfiction | This memoir of artistic appreciation is centered largely on seventeenth-century Dutch paintings, but focusses particularly on two artists, one Dutch, one not: Carel Fabritius, a pupil of Rembrandt’s, and the Scottish painter James Cumming, who was the author’s father. Laura Cumming, an art critic, challenges the common views of Dutch Golden Age art as being merely representational or as depicting symbols that unlock religious or moral meanings.

May 27, 2023 | audiofilemagazine.com | Jacqueline Crooks

Leonie Elliott, an accomplished actor, is the perfect narrator for this remarkable debut novel. She is Black and British like the book's heroine, Yamaye, and has similar Jamaican roots. This dark story covers disturbing topics such as sexual abuse, police brutality, and drugs. The opening moves from a council estate near London to the Bristol underworld to a Jamaica filled with magic, mystery, self-discovery, and danger. Yamaye's voice is angry, proud, and lyrical.