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AM Homes

Winner of the 2013 Women's prize for fiction for her novel May We Be Forgiven

September 2022

  • AM Homes in New York in August

    The Unfolding by AM Homes review – a storyline undercut by events

    Republican plotters conspire to seize power in a slippery and elusive tale

August 2022

  • Author A.M. Homes in New York City. 8/19/22, "AM Homes" , New York Ali Smith for The Observer

    Books interview
    AM Homes: ‘We want to believe that opportunity exists for women now; it does and it doesn’t’

  • Salman Rushdie.

    Hundreds of authors to read from Salman Rushdie’s works in show of solidarity

April 2020

  • Illustration: Owen Gatley

    Women's prize at 25: what it is like to win by Zadie Smith, Naomi Alderman and more

    Winning authors explain how the award changed their lives and share their favourite books by women

July 2018

  • Siesta Key beach at Sarasota, Florida,

    Days of Awe by AM Homes review – disorienting stories

  • Shoppers walking dogs on Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, US

    Days of Awe by AM Homes review – acerbic and direct

June 2018

  • A.M. Homes

    Books that made me
    AM Homes: ‘My comfort read? All the President’s Men’

    The American author on the Margaret Atwood novel that makes her laugh, how John Cheever changed her life, and being unable to finish Infinite Jest

April 2017

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    The age of anxiety: what does Granta’s best young authors list say about America?

    The US is in crisis - what about its literature? Michelle Dean reports on the 2017 Granta list of writers under 40, which is as diverse as the country itself

February 2017

  • a still from the 1949 film Tarzan’s Magic Fountain showing Brenda Joyce as Jane, Lex Barker as Tarzan and Cheeta in another uncredited central role.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 Hollywood novels

    As excitement rises ahead of Sunday’s Oscars, a look at novelists’ treatments of the film mecca reveals a rather darker picture

July 2016

  • summer books illustration by oivind hovland

    Best holiday reads 2016

    From gripping fiction to history, brilliant poetry to biography, our guest contributors offer their recommendations for the beach and elsewhere

November 2015

  • Shortlisted author Chimamanda Ngozi Adic<br>London, UNITED KINGDOM: Shortlisted author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie poses with her book "Half of a Yellow Sun" at the Orange Broadband Price for Fiction, 06 June 2007 in London. AFP PHOTO / SHAUN CURRY (Photo credit should read SHAUN CURRY/AFP/Getty Images)

    Who is your Bailey of Baileys winner?

    A jury of former judges is currently deciding which novel deserves to take the laurels as the last decade’s finest novel by a woman. Who gets your vote?

March 2015

  • Venice Beach

    Reading American cities
    Books about Los Angeles: readers' picks

    From LA noir to 21st-century satire, the literature of this Californian city embraces extremes of wealth, fame, frustration and failure. Here’s a selection of our readers’ suggestions of books to bring you closer to the city of Angels

May 2014

  • AM Homes, winner of the Women's prize for fiction

    Australia culture blog
    AM Homes: ‘I write emotional science fiction’

    The winner of the women's prize for fiction told Sydney writers' festival about how the trauma of being adopted has influenced her darkly satirical novels, writes Bethanie Blanchard

April 2014

  • Comic: David Gibbons trail pic

    Weekend comics special April 2014
    How to write a comic: a beginner's guide

  • Comic: Fraser Irving trail

    Weekend comics special April 2014
    Novelists do comics: Do You Hear What I Hear? by AM Homes and Frazer Irving

December 2013

  • Donna Tartt

    Readers' books of the year 2013: part 1

  • shriver big brother

    Observer books of the year 2013
    Fiction books of the year – review

November 2013

  • Illustration by Rachel Gannon

    Writers and critics on the best books of 2013

  • Andy Warhol

    Dead Interviews, ed. Dan Crowe – review

June 2013

  • Saturday interview
    AM Homes interview: 'I write the things we don't want to say out loud'

    US writer AM Homes made news this week when she won the Women's prize for fiction, halting Hilary Mantel's extraordinary winning streak. So, did it feel good? 'No, I mean, come on!'
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