World travel, daring dystopias and secondary school cliques frame timely YA outings
April 2020
Books interview
Emily St John Mandel: 'I admire novelists who are pushing the form forward'
The award-winning author on her eerie new novel set during the 2008 financial crash
November 2019
Book clinic
Book clinic: Can you recommend utopian novels for these dystopian times?
We suggest novels that reveal the kindness of strangers and leave you with a sense of hope
May 2019
The other side of Black Mirror: literary utopias offer the seeds of better real life
Sandra Newman
The rule of cynics and nihilists has led us to a dangerous place, where everything from healthcare to wind farms is declared intrusive, big-state meddling
August 2018
Boring dystopia is the way the world ends – not with a bang or a wimple
Elle Hunt
It’s not the drama or horror of The Handmaid’s Tale we have to look out for, but a ‘no change’ message on a broken cashpoint or a children’s ‘self-checkout’ toy
June 2017
When the truth of Donald Trump’s presidency is stranger than fiction
Letter: Published 82 years ago, It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis was the perfect script for Donald Trump’s takeover of the US, writes Graham Stocks
April 2017
Children's book reviews round-up
Fiction for 8- to 12-year-olds reviews – cyborgs, sisters and a girl called Owl
Film directors Sylvain Chomet and Bobbie Peers give a fantastic spin to the challenges of the tweenage years
March 2017
Our book giveaway wasn’t ‘anti-Trump’. It was pro-literature
Letters: As book lovers we believe in the power of literature to help us reflect critically on what is going on in the world
November 2016
How my father, JG Ballard, foresaw our strange present
Bea Ballard
With this year’s mix of dramatic politics and all-powerful technology, the novelist has been the man of the hour. His daughter is not surprised
July 2016
Children's book reviews round-up
Teenage fiction reviews – blame games, crimes and wonderment
Questions of guilt and stories of redemption abound in the latest roundup of the best young adult novels
Children's books
We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach - review
Roseleen Havana: ‘This standalone book will have you up all night wondering what it really means to be alive’
Children's books
Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - review
Secret Scribbler: ‘ this book is full of such compassion for humanity’
June 2016
Children's books
The 100 by Kass Morgan – review
Wanderer378: ‘An absolutely fascinating read, I haven’t read anything similar’
Children's books
Blame by Simon Mayo - review
confessionsofabooklover: ‘I would urge you to try and stick with it because the book reaches some really interesting developments’
Children's books
The Maze Runner by James Dashner - review
Children's books
The Death Cure by James Dashner - review
Children's books
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner - review
May 2016
Children's books
1984 by George Orwell – review
Conheeneyl: ‘Orwell’s novella is a warning for the human race’
Children's books
The Kill Order by James Dashner – review
Emma, Millennium RIOT Readers: ‘I felt terror and hopeful anticipation at the same time’
Children's books
Veronica Roth: 'I wanted to let go of our world completely'
The author of Divergent tells us about her new book Carve the Mark, why she’s obsessed by corrupt and deeply flawed governments and who she’d run to in a zombie apocalypse
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