The longest hour: Piers Morgan’s excruciating ‘interview’ with Rishi Sunak
John Crace
Prime minister joined UK Sun God for an exchange of awkward blokey bants, unbased claims and bonfire of vanities
August 2022
Book of the day
eden by Jim Crace review – the world beyond the wall
The Garden of Eden is a labour camp ruled over by angels in this fable about freedom
March 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 novels set in villages
From Chinua Achebe to Agatha Christie and Shirley Jackson, these books play with our assumptions about small communities
February 2020
Beyond Mantel: the historical novels everyone must read
From Francis Spufford to Sarah Waters, contemporary writers have brought new complexity and playfulness to historical fiction
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The 100 best books of the 21st century
Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000
May 2018
Top 10s
Carys Davies’ top 10 wilderness books
From Eric Newby’s bliss in the Hindu Kush to Paul Bowles’s Saharan horrors, the novelist shares her favourite visions of unfathomable territory
March 2018
The Guardian Books podcast
Jim Crace on The Melody – books podcast
On this week’s show, Jim Crace talks about his latest novel and we discuss the different ways we read books, after Claire has a strange epiphany
February 2018
The Melody by Jim Crace review – a story with real bite
Book of the day
The Melody by Jim Crace review – an ecological fable for our times
January 2018
Books that made me
Jim Crace: ‘I’ve never had much luck with Proust, Tolkien or Trollope’
The author of Harvest on why Kerouac is overrated, the importance of Dr Seuss, and why he will never be parted with his 1955 edition of Roget’s Thesaurus
December 2015
Top 10s
Top 10 books about justice and redemption
From Marilynne Robinson’s pensive Christian drama to Seamus Heaney’s blood-soaked Beowulf, here are the best books about restoring the cosmic balance
June 2015
My hero
My hero: Jim Crace by Daniel Hahn
Impac prize goes to 'consummate wordsmith' Jim Crace for Harvest
April 2015
Impac Dublin prize shortlist spans continents
Jim Crace joins international finalists including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Man Booker winner Richard Flanagan
May 2014
Tips, links and suggestions
Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading this week?
Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
April 2014
Books blog
What book would you send to someone in prison?
Leading authors have shared what books they would send an inmate and why, as part of the campaign Books for Prisoners. Which copy would you send and for what reasons?
March 2014
Eight authors surprised by $150,000 Windham Campbell books prizes
Judged in confidence, writers including Jim Crace, Aminatta Forna and Pankaj Mishra only learn of their lucrative honours as they are awarded
February 2014
Harvest by Jim Crace – review
A village's age-old way of life is threatened in Jim Crace's powerful novel, writes Sophia Martelli
