My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley audiobook review – a portrait of mother-daughter resentment
Helen McAlpine brings Riley’s crisp sentences to life in this compelling story of family boundary-testing
February 2022
Damon Galgut and Colm Tóibín join ‘rich and large’ Rathbones Folio prize shortlist
Galgut’s Booker winner and Tóibín’s fictionalised biography of Thomas Mann are two of eight titles selected by the judges
April 2021
My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley review – broken familial bonds
Book of the day
My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley review – playing toxic families
January 2019
Books that made me
Gwendoline Riley: 'I don’t like being given books I haven’t asked for'
The novelist and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizewinner on her first reading memories and the profound effect of Mihail Sebastian’s diaries
December 2018
Gwendoline Riley's 'brutal' novel about toxic marriage wins Geoffrey Faber prize
With her novel First Love, the 39-year-old author joins eminent former winners including Seamus Heaney and Alice Oswald
November 2017
Best books of 2017
Best books of 2017 – part two
From moving memoirs to far-reaching fiction, novelists, poets and critics pick their best reads of the year
March 2017
First Love by Gwendoline Riley review – a compelling tale of toxic love
Baileys women's prize 2017 longlist sees established names eclipse debuts
January 2017
First Love by Gwendoline Riley review – miniaturism for existentialists
On my radar
On my radar: Gwendoline Riley’s cultural highlights
March 2013
Alex Clark's best young British novelists
Ahead of Granta's 2013 list, former Granta editor and veteran of the 2003 judging panel Alex Clark picks her 20 favourites
May 2012
Opposed Positions by Gwendoline Riley - review
Anne Enright acclaims a narrator who walks the high wire of the reader's sympathy
June 2007
Friends reunited with Scott and Zelda
April in Asheville
April 2007
'You have to trawl the depths'
Kira Cochrane
Gwendoline Riley is one of the country's most talented young authors. She talks to Kira Cochrane about Morrissey, misogyny and visiting writers' graves.
May 2004
Fairy wings in foul weather
David Jays is entranced by dreams of leaving Manchester in Gwendoline Riley's Sick Notes
May 2002
One for the road
Alex Clark enters a murky world of barroom drifters in Cold Water by Gwendoline Riley
