Lisa Allardice

London

Chief Books Writer at The Guardian

Guardian Chief Books Writer.

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Articles

If you only read one book this year … make it this one!

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Lisa Allardice |William Boyd |Sara Collins |Justine Jordan |Nikesh Shukla |Jeffrey Boakye

According to new data from YouGov, 40% of British adults have not read a single book in the last year, with the median Briton having read or listened to three. In a world where there are so many other distractions and forms of entertainment to choose from, fewer and fewer people are getting stuck into books – yet lots of us would like to be reading more. So we asked authors, booksellers and critics to choose the book they think you should read this year – even if you only read one.
US novelist Anne Tyler

2 months ago | msn.com | Lisa Allardice

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‘It seemed wrong to write about normal life after that horrendous election’: US novelist Anne Tyler

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Lisa Allardice

“I’m ashamed,” Anne Tyler says of the publication of her new novel, Three Days in June, a typically Tyleresque off‑kilter romantic comedy about a long-divorced, mismatched couple. “I didn’t even realise I was up to 25.
Nobel prize-winning novelist Han Kang on the crisis in South Korea

2 months ago | msn.com | Lisa Allardice

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Nobel prize-winning novelist Han Kang on the crisis in South Korea

2 months ago | msn.com | Lisa Allardice

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‘I want to be hopeful’: Nobel prize-winning novelist Han Kang on the crisis in South Korea

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Lisa Allardice

On 10 December last year, the novelist and poet Han Kang had just finished having supper with her 24-year-old son at home in Seoul. They were discussing which tea to have – peppermint, berry or chamomile – when the phone rang. It was the Swedish Academy in Stockholm calling to tell her she had been . Her first thought was to check the news, which confirmed that she was indeed the first Korean writer to become Nobel laureate. At 54, she is young by Nobel standards.
Booker-prijswinaar Samantha Harvey: “Mijn slapeloosheid veranderde mijn manier van schrijven”

Jan 17, 2025 | standaard.be | Lisa Allardice
Booker Prize für „Umlaufbahnen“ von Samantha Harvey: Peitschenknall am Morgen

Dec 19, 2024 | freitag.de | Lisa Allardice

Auf einen Kaffee mit Booker-Prize-Trägerin Samantha Harvey, die der „New Yorker“ als „Melville des Himmels“ preist Von The Guardian Samantha Harvey hätte ihren mit dem Booker Prize ausgezeichneten Roman Umlaufbahnen beinahe nicht fertiggestellt.
‘Children don’t just need butterflies and rainbows’

Nov 29, 2024 | msn.com | Lisa Allardice

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Novelist Maggie O’Farrell: ‘Children don’t just need butterflies and rainbows’

Nov 29, 2024 | theguardian.com | Lisa Allardice

It was a live radio broadcast that made Maggie O’Farrell realise she finally had to tackle her stammer. In 2010, she was just about to appear on Woman’s Hour when she was unexpectedly asked to read from her Costa prize-winning novel, The Hand That First Held Mine. “I thought, God, I don’t know if I can,” O’Farrell says when we meet in Edinburgh, where she lives with her family. Ever since childhood, O’Farrell has had a stammer.