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Elizabeth Bowen

August 2023

  • Florence Pugh, right, as Charlie, with Alexander Skarsgård in the TV adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 female spies in fiction

    Women’s role in espionage, largely written by women, leans less on explosions and more on perception, nuance and explorations of sacrifice – though they still kick ass

September 2021

  • Armie Hammer as Maxim de Winter and Lily James as Mrs de Winter in the 2020 film adaptation of Rebecca

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels of the 1930s

    From George Orwell to Daphne du Maurier, the books that made a decade span village detectives, Edwardian butlers and Bright Young Things

February 2021

  • Elizabeth Bowen c1949.

    Love triangles at the heart of the Bloomsbury set revealed

    Intimate letters show that the obsessions which filled Elizabeth Bowen’s novels were drawn from her own life

April 2020

  • Bog gothic … the 1997 film of Butcher Boy.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 Irish gothic novels

    From ancient terrors to modern horrors, authors from Oscar Wilde to Anna Burns have found in Ireland rich and genuinely scary storytelling terrain

October 2019

  • Elizabeth Bowen, 1964.

    Collected Stories by Elizabeth Bowen review – ghosts, comedy and a touch of Spark

    Bowen’s short stories from the 1920s to the 40s shimmer with a world just out of reach

February 2019

  • VS Naipaul, author of A House for Mr Biswas.

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: what’s likely to impress an English literature admissions tutor?

    Philip Hensher suggests some great novelists, from GK Chesterton to VS Naipaul, who aren’t on the curriculum

December 2018

  • Geoff Dyer, at home in Los Angeles reading Son Of The Morning Star

    Better read than dead: how Geoff Dyer got to know his bookshelves better

    As 2018 ends, the author reveals the books he has finally got round to reading this year – hardy survivors, he explains, of years of house moves and bookshelf clear-outs

December 2017

  • Fairy godmother type handing a youngster a book in a fairy woodland setting

    'If only I'd been warned!' - writers choose books to give to their younger selves

    Julian Barnes, Margaret Drabble, Tessa Hadley, David Nicholls and others choose reading matter that would have been useful when young

February 2017

  • Elizabeth Bowen, 1964.

    From the Guardian archive
    Elizabeth Bowen, the 'grande dame' of the modern novel - archive, 1960

    15 February 1960: Bowen is remembered for novels like The House in Paris and The Death of the Heart, but she also wrote essays, radio broadcasts and reviews

March 2014

  • Blitz-hit London in 1941

    Nicholas Lezard's choice
    The Love-Charm of Bombs review – the higher gossip of life in the blitz

    Nicholas Lezard's paperback of the week: Lara Feigel examines London in the blitz through the eyes of novelists such as Graham Greene

March 2012

  • A traditional house front door and knocker

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Guardian Books podcast: Tessa Hadley reads a short story for Mother's Day

  • Jean Rhys

    Jean Rhys's flat receives the blue plaque treatment

December 2010

  • Elizabeth Bowen and Tessa Hadley

    The Guardian UK Culture Podcast
    Tessa Hadley reads 'The Jungle' by Elizabeth Bowen

    Tessa Hadley reads a story from one of her ‘writing family’, Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘The Jungle’

February 2009

  • Critical eye
    War and remembrance

  • Elizabeth Bowen

    'I am in your keeping'

March 2007

  • Flann O'Brien

    'A ban on feeling'

    Lives & letters: Ireland's neutrality during the second world war might have divided the nation, but its intellectual and cultural life thrived as writers - such as Elizabeth Bowen and Flann O'Brien - took sides.

December 2004

  • The breadth of Britain

    Catherine Taylor, Ian Pindar and John Dugdale on Rose Macaulay | Foley | Black Earth | Elizabeth Bowen | Churchill's Sacrifice of the Highland Division | The Americas

April 2004

  • Corrections and clarifications
    Corrections and clarifications

    A few accidentally excised words from yesterday's obituary of the actor Richard Leech made it appear as if he had played a character named Chris Keller in a play entitled Castle Anna (page 21). The relevant part of the sentence, with the reinstated words, should have read: "His first role was in an Irish country house play, Elizabeth Bowen and John Perry's Castle Anna; and in Arthur Miller's first work to reach the West End, All My Sons, in which he played Chris Keller"

August 2001

  • Drop the holiday and pick up a paintbrush

    A new survey reveals record numbers plan to give their house the Llewelyn-Bowen treatment. Elizabeth Langton reports.

April 2000

  • Love and death in old Ireland

    Will the film of Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September revive interest in the Irish writer's work? Her biographer Hermione Lee thinks so

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