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Ben Okri: How I wrote The Famished Road

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Dua Lipa on A Little Life: ‘It challenged everything I thought I knew about love'

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A Little Life: 'I forged a deep connection with vulnerable, determined Jude'

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Should Martin Amis have won the Booker Prize?

Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson in Remains of the day, standing by a window.

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How The Remains of the Day changed the way I think about England

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Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively speaks to readers now more strongly than ever

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The summer I felt seen: discovering Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus  

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Our stories matter: why we need more working-class voices in quality fiction

Children on the way to school in rural Kerala

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Nadifa Mohamed on The God of Small Things

Circular forms, Sun, Moon by Robert Delaunay

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Anuk Arudpragasam on John Berger's G.

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First-person features

Browse our first-person features

Ben Okri: How I wrote The Famished Road

Dua Lipa on A Little Life: ‘It challenged everything I thought I knew about love'

A Little Life: 'I forged a deep connection with vulnerable, determined Jude'

Should Martin Amis have won the Booker Prize?

How The Remains of the Day changed the way I think about England

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively speaks to readers now more strongly than ever

The summer I felt seen: discovering Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

Our stories matter: why we need more working-class voices in quality fiction

Nadifa Mohamed on The God of Small Things

Anuk Arudpragasam on John Berger's G.

Damon Galgut on James Kelman's How late It Was, How Late

The summer I felt seen: discovering Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus  