Miriam Balanescu

2 months ago | empireonline.com | Miriam Balanescu

On exam-results day, schoolkid Ziba (Deba Hekmat) plans the perfect 24 hours with her friends as a final send-off into adulthood – but her secret illness taints the celebrations. That time when teens are on the cusp of adulthood has long proved fertile ground for filmmakers: Dazed And Confused, Superbad and Booksmart a case in point.

2 months ago | ft.com | Miriam Balanescu

The second novel by the Australian writer Madeleine Watts, Elegy, Southwest, is astonishingly and chillingly prescient.

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Miriam Balanescu

The latest addition to fiction's "age-gap romance" trend takes an unconventional approach. Like Sally Rooney's Intermezzo, Kingfisher, by the young Yorkshire-based writer Rozie Kelly, parses grief with love. But, unlike Rooney's novel, there's no preamble about the protagonist's underlying trauma.

2 months ago | msn.com | Miriam Balanescu

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2 months ago | theguardian.com | Miriam Balanescu

In recent novels set in restaurants, the breakneck speed of the action hides darker elements at work. Stéphane Larue’s The Dishwasher follows a restaurant worker whose life threatens to unravel amid his gambling addiction; in Merritt Tierce’s Love Me Back, the world of waitressing is a front for Texas’s grimy underbelly.