Lucy Scholes

3 weeks ago | ft.com | Lucy Scholes

Many of us might want to forget our miserable childhoods, but this rarely proves easy.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Scholes

A certain dispassionate, matter-of-fact prose style has become characteristic of too much contemporary fiction: my heart now reflexively sinks when I encounter it. In such novels, the narrators observe their own lives with the practiced, measured eye of anthropologists. Often they are, as Armstrong's narrator calls them, "vaguely disembodied cerebral girls".

1 month ago | observer.co.uk | Lucy Scholes

GunkSaba SamsBloomsbury, £16.99, pp240Saba Sams was just 26 when her debut short story collection, Send Nudes, won the 2022 Edge Hill short story prize, and one of the tales therein, Blue 4eva, won the BBC national short story award. A writer clearly worth watching. The anticipation for her first novel was heightened when she was picked for Granta’s once-in-a-decade best of young British novelists list. Now that first novel is here and she is still only 29.

1 month ago | the-tls.co.uk | Robert Bevan |Lenni Sanders |James Cook |Lucy Scholes

To access over 1000 book reviews, essays and more, subscribe here‘Ground zero for the liberal elite’A guide to various culture war types What a peculiar book this is. Peter York, best known for his cod-anthropological examination of British society’s various snobby tribes, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982), has turned his attention to the culture wars.

1 month ago | the-tls.co.uk | Lucy Scholes

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