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Jayne Anne Phillips

January 2024

  • The battle of Fort Donelson.

    Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips review – ravages of the US civil war

    A little girl and her mother suffer the brutal fallout of the conflict in an unsparing novel that illuminates the human cost

September 2016

  • President Obama

    The Obama years: novelists assess his legacy

    Expectations were sky high when Barack Obama was elected president in 2008. As his term draws to a close, has he disappointed or delivered? Novelists in America appraise him

July 2015

  • The Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline.

    Text and the city: writers in New York remain fascinated by its storied past

    A reading underneath the Brooklyn Bridge by two writers highlights the greatest love affair many New York authors have – with the city itself

March 2015

  • Detail from the cover of How to be Both by Ali Smith

    Baileys women's prize for fiction longlist - in pictures

    The 20 novels longlisted for this year’s Baileys prize cover a wide range of themes, genres and styles - from Sarah Waters’ depiction of forbidden love in the 1920s to Emily St John Mandel’s dystopian future in a world decimated by flu. Take a look at the competition

May 2014

  • Asta Eicher and her three children

    Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips – review

    Phillips's fiction based on fact is a captivating retelling of grisly crimes and their reporting, writes Mark Lawson

April 2014

  • Mass murderer Harry F. Powers, the Butcher of Clarksburg, te

    Quiet Dell review – Jayne Anne Phillips's 'truth in fiction'

    The American novelist's recreation of a real-life murder of a family is her best work yet, writes Kate Kellaway

March 2014

  • Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

    Where did the story of ebooks begin?

    Peter James's Host, published on two disks, was an early example – but exactly where the medium started life is surprisingly tricky to identify

November 2008

  • George Bush

    The state of America after Bush

    Leading American novelists on the legacy of outgoing president George W Bush

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