John Boyne
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In brief: Earth; Vassal State; The Penguin History of Modern Spain – review
John Boyne’s pacy novella about an Irish footballer caught up in a sex scandal; Angus Hanton’s exploration of our ‘special relationship’ with America; and a cliche-free portrait of Spain
Book of the day
All the Broken Places by John Boyne review – a sequel of sortsThe follow-up to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a powerful novel about secrets and atonement after Auschwitz
The Echo Chamber by John Boyne review – Hogarthian remorselessness
Books interview
John Boyne: ‘People were criticising my book when they hadn’t read it’
Top 10s
Top 10 books about booksFrom John Boyne to Julian Barnes and Carlos Ruiz Zafón, novelist Antoine Laurain chooses stories that are told inside stories
John Boyne accidentally includes Zelda video game monsters in novel
Novelist says details from careless Google search are ‘quite funny’ and he will leave his book as is after reader spots Octoroks and Lizalfos in his new book
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas author defends work from criticism by Auschwitz memorial
After airing his worries about ‘Holocaust genre’ fiction, John Boyne has been accused of ‘perpetuating dangerous myths’ himself
The Guardian Books podcast
Hay festival special with Pat Barker, John Lanchester, Max Porter and more – books podcastClaire and Sian bring you some of the highlights from the annual books festival held in the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye
John Boyne hits back at critics of transgender novel
Author says it is the job of writers to put themselves into the minds of others
Further reading
From Jeanette Winterson to John Irving: John Boyne on the best books about LGBT lifeAs we mark LGBT history month, the novelist selects some classic, personal novels and true accounts of the battle for civil rights
The Guardian Books podcast
Sarah Waters, John Boyne and the 2018 Man Booker prize shortlist – books podcastThe Tristan Chord by Glenn Skwerer review – Hitler in his youth
Reading rooms: the story of an author’s house
John Boyne’s home is now a colourful and peaceful retreat in the heart of Dublin
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas review – pirouetting SS officers?
Book of the day
Smile by Roddy Doyle review – few laughs, but a fine novel
‘At last I felt I fitted in’: writers on the books that helped them come out
Sarah Waters, Edmund White, Jeanette Winterson, Jackie Kay – 50 years after the decriminalisation of homosexuality, writers recall the books that first spoke to them of their lives and longings
My writing day
John Boyne: ‘I began on Wednesday morning and wrote for 60 hours’The author on writing every day, through the night, and completing the first draft of his The Boy in Striped Pyjamas in two days
Meet the author
John Boyne: ‘The church has become a spent force’The author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas on the explosion in YA fiction, the abandonment of the Catholic church and why he couldn’t live anywhere other than Dublin
Nominations for Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals 2017 announced
Children’s laureates Chris Riddell and Malorie Blackman vie with past winners and new faces for the UK’s most prestigious prizes in children’s writing and illustrating
Children's books
Stay Where You Are and Then Leave by John Boyne – reviewJoe, Dorset Reading Partners: ‘yet another brilliant book by the author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’
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