The arts in 2012: books
Alison Flood picks her highlights of the year aheadThe Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, January, Fourth Estate Bought for a whopping advance of $650,000, this is one of the most anticipated US debuts...
View ArticleLiterary events in 2012
More Dickens and even more Shakespeare, but also new novels from Toni Morrison, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, plus exciting new voices – 2012's literary highlightsJanuary10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery...
View ArticlePatience (After Sebald) – review
This modest, immensely enjoyable documentary is about one of my favourite books, The Rings of Saturn by the German poet and critic WG Sebald, who was born in 1944, taught for much of his adult life in...
View ArticleJean Rhys's flat receives the blue plaque treatment
English Heritage mark the apartment where Jean Rhys penned acclaimed work, and commemorate novelist Elizabeth BowenThe Chelsea flat where the novelist Jean Rhys lived with her literary agent, after her...
View ArticleTo be continued … the grand tradition of prequels and sequels
Elizabeth Bennet James Bond and Sherlock Holmes have had countless reincarnations. Now, Long John Silver is the latest in a long line of old favourites to make a comeback• Read Andrew Motion on writing...
View ArticleAndrew Motion: 'The day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been...
Andrew Motion on his sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and life after being poet laureateYour new novel, Silver, is a sequel to Treasure Island, describing a return expedition 40 years...
View ArticleGuardian Books podcast: Andrew Motion and Anthony Horowitz on sequels
As Mark Lawson remarked in Guardian Review, it's high season for the sequel, so we talk to two leading writers who have shelved their own original fiction to write them. Andrew Motion explains why he...
View ArticleCritical eye: book reviews roundup
Silver by Andrew Motion, Strindberg: A Life by Sue Prideaux and No Time Like the Present by Nadine GordimerHow successful was Andrew Motion judged to be in writing Silver, his sequel to Treasure...
View ArticleSilver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion – review
Andrew Motion's imagined sequel to Stevenson's swashbuckling classic is a literary companion piece in its own rightAndrew Motion has form with literary re-imaginings of famous stories. In Wainright the...
View ArticleSilver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion – review
This is a pleasing and convivial re-adventureAfter Faulks-does-Fleming, Horowitz-does-Holmes, and PD James-whodunnits-Jane Austen, now Andrew Motion does Robert Louis Stevenson. For those who believe...
View ArticleCan Booktrack make ebooks sensuous?
A soundtrack to digital texts claims to 'enhance the e-reading experience', but how will my latest novel, Silver, fare with sound effects?We sometimes forget it, but reading a book in the old-fashioned...
View ArticleSixty years in poems
Carol Ann Duffy invites leading poets to recall a year in verse1953 Dannie Abse Winged BackStrange the potency of a cheap dance tune. – Noel CowardOne such winged me back to a different post-code, to...
View ArticleSue Arnold's audiobook choice - review
Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion, The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue TownsendSilver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion,...
View ArticleKeep Public Lending Right's excellent office in Stockton-on-Tees
Anne Fine, Ian Rankin, Monica Ali and Andrew Motion join campaign to save 'exemplary and hard-working' staff in an area where unemployment has topped 11.5 percent. Allan Glen checks their...
View ArticleDiamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan
Hilary Mantel, William Boyd, Andrew Motion and Sean O'Brien – who were all born in 1952 – on the past 60 yearsHilary MantelAged three or four, I paraded our back yard in what I called "my Prince...
View ArticleGuardian Books podcast: Edinburgh International Book festival preview
As the Edinburgh International Book festival prepares for 10am tomorrow when it opens its doors, we speak to festival director Nick Barley about his pick of the programme this year, and take a tour...
View ArticleEdinburgh International Book festival podcast: Andrew Motion, Frank...
In our inaugural Edinburgh International Book festival podcast, we talk to platform-sharers Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andrew Motion - who've both published follow-ups to beloved children's books this...
View ArticleEdinburgh International Book Festival: an introduction - video
The children's laureate and Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson, and former poet laureate Andrew Motion, who has recently published Silver - a sequel to Treasure Island - explain why they return to the...
View ArticleTigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann – review
A murder mystery set among the bored housewives of 1950s New England is a cut above your average beach readLiza Klaussmann's first novel opens on a balmy evening in New England just after the second...
View ArticleYet another poet leaves a mark on the northern landscape
The Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has waymarkers in Pendle; Simon Armitage has inscribed rocks on Ilkley Moor. Now Sir Andrew Motion bestrides the Howgill fells and valley of the Lune. Michael Glover...
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