Anne Tyler
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Renowned for her extraordinary insights into ordinary lives, the award-winning novelist discusses family sagas and why she thinks she was a better writer when she was younger
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Buddhist wisdom and Anita Brookner help make sense of those annoying others
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Diana Athill, Anne Tyler and Elizabeth Strout all provide wisdom and humour in times of need
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From Shirley Jackson’s arsenic-laced dinner to David Sedaris’s essay about his sister’s death, family get-togethers make for dramatic reading
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From Nancy Mitford’s ‘the Bolter’ – so named for her serial monogamy – to the mother of Kramer vs Kramer, here are the best mums on the run
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Male authors are always pronouncing their own brilliance – or boasting about not reading books by women. So, after a lifetime spent writing and attending literary festivals, John Boyne would like to get something off his chest …
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From Alice Munro to Rachel Cusk, Anne Tyler to Margaret Atwood, great writers reveal a more complicated story than we’re inclined to tell ourselves
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Not many novelists have managed to write well about these unglamorous but subtle dramas. From George Eliot to John Updike, here are some who have
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John Crace trims Anne Tyler’s modern update on Shakespeare’s battle of the sexes to an evenly matched 800 words
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This update of The Taming of the Shrew is enjoyable but never manages to convince that it’s more than a mere marketing exercise
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A brusque nursery school teacher is pitted against a Russian lab assistant in this intelligent revamp of The Taming of the Shrew
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What if you actually tried to make the dishes described in novels – from the fish stew in Ian McEwan’s Saturday to Bridget Jones’s blue soup? Here’s one recipe
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No prize can please everyone, but the shortlist of six is the result of passionate and painstaking argument, says judge Sam Leith. Who would you like to win tonight?
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This year’s impressive contenders reflect the diversity of fiction in English
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Bob Marley’s charisma, islands wrapped in pink skirts, the nature of friendship … The six shortlisted authors reveal what inspired them to write their books
Book of the day Redhead By the Side of the Road review – another gem from Anne Tyler