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Debut novel challenges traditions of the Arab world
Saleem Haddad’s first novel Guapa follows a day in the life of a gay man in an Arab city, questioning deep-set societal expectations.
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Saleem Haddad’s first novel Guapa follows a day in the life of a gay man in an Arab city, questioning deep-set societal expectations.
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Books Editor Jingjie Cheng looks at this year’s T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist, whose winner is announced on Monday
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Paul Auster’s Booker-nominated 4321 is an audacious work of metafiction, which revels in its multiple timelines.
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Last Thursday, British writer Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017. Books editor Jingjie Cheng writes about her experience with the writer and his works.
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Felix Books’ editors Jingjie Cheng and Alice Peberdy give you stocking-filler ideas (that last longer than chocolate, promise)
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Felix Books writers choose their favourite reads released this year
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Following a Cambridge University English student’s call to ‘decolonise’ the English Literature syllabus to include more BAME writers, Books Editor Jingjie Cheng gives her take on the issue.
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Reading goes hand in hand with travelling, introducing you to local novels, new ideas, and amazing bookshops
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Following on from calls in Cambridge to include more BAME authors in its curriculum, Felix makes some suggestions.
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Austrian writer Thomas Glavinic’s The Greater Miracle explores one man’s life when pushed to the extreme in a brilliant piece of storytelling.
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Despite being over 30 years old, The Handmaid’s Tale, with its warning of a future of curtailed women’s rights, is as disturbingly familiar as ever.
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Books Writer Katie Cook introduces the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and gives her take on this year’s winner – Naomi Alderman, whose novel The Power centres around gender and violence.