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Candice Carty-Williams

June 2024

  • Dionne Brown in Queenie.

    TV review
    Queenie review – so half-baked it could have been made by AI

    The actors feel under-rehearsed, the plotlines are painful cliches and the lead character is totally bland. This adaptation of Candice Carty-Williams’s hit novel just isn’t fun – or funny – enough

May 2024

  • Candice Carty-Williams and Dionne Brown.

    ‘I wanted Queenie in everyone’s house’: Candice Carty-Williams’s era-defining novel explodes on to TV

    Her literary debut was a smash-hit tale of female self-discovery. As it gets its long-awaited television debut, the author talks breakups, Bridget Jones and why Ian McEwan gets an easier ride than she does

June 2023

  • Déja J Bowens in Champion.

    ‘It’s like all my dreams coming true’: inside the BBC’s electrifying new musical drama

    From working with grime legends to tackling racism, author Candice Carty-Williams’s new show Champion is landmark TV. Its team talk Shola Ama, being peng – and the greatest group chat ever

April 2023

  • Candice Carty-Williams.

    Audiobook of the week
    People Person by Candice Carty-Williams audiobook review – sibling bonds and absent fathers

    Four half-siblings rally round their sister when she makes a grim discovery in this wise and funny tale from the author of Queenie

May 2022

  • Clockwise from left: Kerry Hudson, Candice Carty-Williams, Terri White, Kit de Waal.

    Shove over, stale males! Meet the working-class women storming TV

    Television has been dominated by middle-class men for far too long. Now, a glorious wave of female drama makers are proudly putting their roots on screen

April 2022

  • Candice Carty-Williams

    Book of the day
    People Person by Candice Carty-Williams review – Daddy issues

    The breezily enjoyable follow-up to Queenie explores the legacy of a gallivanting Jamaican patriarch, when his five adult children are unexpectedly thrown together
  • Candice Carty-Williams NEW (c) Emil Huseynzade

    People Person by Candice Carty-Williams review – sharp witted but contrived family drama

    The Queenie author’s follow-up loses the plot in this tale of five estranged siblings, a neglectful father and a dead body
  • Candice Carty-Williams

    Candice Carty-Williams: ‘It’s time to write a book just about Black people’

    How do you follow a game-changing, award-winning debut? Candice Carty-Williams on Queenie, binning her second novel, and how People Person draws on life with eight siblings

December 2021

  • Ben Okri, Candice Carty-Williams and Caleb Azumah Nelson

    Today in Focus
    Revisited: Britain’s rich history of black literature

    In Black History Month we brought together star authors Ben Okri, Candice Carty-Williams and Caleb Azumah Nelson to discuss the past, present and future of black writing

October 2021

  • Nina: A Story of Nina Simone by Traci N Todd, illustrated by Christian Robinson

    Children's book roundup
    Children’s books roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Schnauzers in trousers, a Diwali sparkler and Lenny Henry’s kids’ fiction debut, plus the best new YA
  • Podcast BlackLiterature

    Today in Focus
    Britain’s rich history of black literature

    For Black History Month we’ve brought together star authors Ben Okri, Candice Carty-Williams and Caleb Azumah Nelson to discuss the past, present and future of black writing
  • Anonymous photo of Jade LB, author of Keisha the Sket.

    ‘I turned against Keisha the Sket for a long time’: Jade LB on returning to her noughties viral story

    The author was just 13 when her anonymous tales of a London teenager spread across the UK. More than a decade on, Stormzy’s Merky books imprint is bringing Keisha back

August 2021

  • Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) in the TV adaptation of Normal People.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 millennial heroines in fiction

  • Grace Dent Candice Carty-Williams Comfort Eating podcast

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S1 E8: Candice Carty-Williams, author

December 2020

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Author, photographed for The Guardian Review Nov 2020 Makeup: Adella Makeup Hair: Omoyele Omolade Photography: Manny Jefferson Lighting: Akin Akinrinwa 2G5A0600

    'I am a pessimistic optimist': Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie answers authors' questions

    Named the ‘winner of winners’ of the Women’s prize, Bernardine Evaristo, Maggie O’Farrell and others ask the author about the #EndSars protests in Nigeria, writing about Trump, and the culture that got her through 2020

November 2020

  • Leigh Lawson as Alec d’Urberville and Nastassia Kinski as Tess in Roman Polanski’s 1979 film of Thomas Hardy’s novel.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about consent

    From Thomas Hardy to Kristen Roupenian, literature offers a changing map of the treacherous terrain of sexual relationships

October 2020

  • WARNING: Embargoed for publication until 00:00:01 on 22/09/2020 - Programme Name: Us - TX: n/a - Episode: Us - Ep 2 (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: *NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNTIL 00:01HRS, TUESDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER, 2020* Douglas Petersen (TOM HOLLANDER) - (C) Drama Republic Ltd - Photographer: Colin Huton

    Page turners
    Is David Nicholls's TV adaptation of Us better than his novel? I was crying too hard to compare them

    Candice Carty-Williams
    Watching all four episodes in one sitting reminded me of how poignant this tale of marital crisis is

September 2020

  • Storyteller … Kano performing at Lovebox festival in 2017.

    Page turners
    Music videos hold the key to storytelling – if only I could bottle their power

    Candice Carty-Williams
    From Kano’s ‘Teardrops’ to Kool & the Gang’s fairytale ‘Fresh’ … music videos can distil the truth

June 2020

  • Candice Carty-Williams & Bernardine Evaristo

    Evaristo and Carty-Williams become first black authors to win top British Book awards

    Candice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo take book of the year and author of the year categories, as publishers face criticism for treatment of black authors

February 2020

  • Candice Carty-Williams photographed in London last month for the Observer New Review.

    Candice Carty-Williams: ‘When I was growing up, humour was a deflection’

    TThe award-winning author of Queenie talks about racism in dating, the childhood books that formed her and the importance of friends
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