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John Fowles

June 2023

  • Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess in the 2011 film version of One Day.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 summer love stories

    With holidays, light evenings and heat, it is a season that goes naturally with romance, as authors from F Scott Fitzgerald to Maggie O’Farrell show

June 2022

  • Anna Karina and Michael Caine in the 1968 film of The Magus.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels about things that go horribly wrong on islands

    From John Fowles’s deep weirdness to Yōko Ogawa’s amnesiac dystopia, these books could put you off beach holidays for ever

April 2021

  • Summer weather

    Further reading
    From Jamaica Inn to Treasure Island: the best books about the sea

    Author Emma Stonex shares her favourites, including psychological novels by John Fowles and Iris Murdoch, and an illuminating history of lighthouses

January 2020

  • Sam Mendes, fourth left, and Pippa Harris, second right, with the cast and crew of 1917, winner of the Best Motion Picture - Drama at the 77th annual Golden Globe awards this month

    From war carnage to Greek idyll: the 1917 team take on The Magus

    Flushed with awards success, Sam Mendes and his partners at Neal Street Productions reveal their latest film, TV and theatre projects

November 2019

  • Meryl Streep as Sarah in The French Lieutenant’s Woman.

    Reading group
    The French Lieutenant’s Woman: how did a good book make such a bad film?

  • ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ - 1981<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo By Everett Collection / Rex Features ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’, Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ - 1981 No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only

    Reading group
    The French Lieutenant’s Woman: John Fowles's meta games are unexpectedly fun

  • THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN [US1981]<br>French Lieutenant's Woman, The (US1981) MERYL STREEP

    Reading group
    The French Lieutenant's Woman: a novel that comes from both the head and the heart

  • Writer John Fowles poses at his home in Lyme Regis, in Dorset, England on August 10, 1985.

    Reading group
    The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles is our Reading group book for November

June 2019

  • Meryl Streep as Sarah Woodruff in the French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1981.

    From the Guardian archive
    The French Lieutenant’s Woman reviewed - archive, 1969

    12 June 1969 Symbols and allegory stain almost every page of John Fowles’ long, puzzling book

March 2019

  • Malcolm McDowell as Alex in 1971’s A Clockwork Orange

    Top 10s
    Top 10 evil narrators

    Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, American Psycho ... many of these books were originally condemned as immoral for humanising the evil at their heart

December 2018

  • Meryl Streep in the French Lieutenant’s Woman, (US1981)

    Books interview
    An interview with John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant's Woman – archive 1970

    5 December 1970 Michael McNay meets John Fowles who won the WH Smith literary award for his latest novel

April 2017

  • Undes res … Julie Harris as Eleanor in The Haunting (1963), Robert Wise’s film of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 terrible houses in fiction

    Places you’d be desperate to avoid in real life provide a magnetic lure in books by authors from Dickens to Du Maurier and even Richard Adams

January 2017

  • James Stewart in a still from the Hitchcock film Rear Window. based on Cornell Woolrich’s story It Had to Be Murder.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about voyeurs

  • Stunted Oaks in Wistman’s Wood SSSI in Dartmoor, Devon, England. Summer (July) 2012.<br>D97K39 Stunted Oaks in Wistman’s Wood SSSI in Dartmoor, Devon, England. Summer (July) 2012.

    Books of defiance
    John Fowles's The Tree is a humble revolt against 'usefulness'

April 2016

  • Film and Television<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock (1569101a) Howards End, Samuel West, Helena Bonham Carter Film and Television

    Figures of Catastrophe by Francis Mulhern review – reasons to be cheerless

  • Meryl Streep in The French Lieutenant's Woman.

    Meryl Streep: 'I wasn't happy with The French Lieutenant's Woman'

August 2015

  • John Fowles

    From John Fowles with love: how the author’s first true romance and lost poem came to light

    In 1951 John Fowles was an assistant teacher at Poitiers University when he fell seriously in love for the first time. More than 60 years on, Mike Abbott meets the student he fell for and uncovers the unpublished poem he wrote for her

July 2015

  • John Fowles at home in Lyme Regis, Dorset, in 1985.

    John Fowles's revealing correspondence with editor up for auction

    Working on The French Lieutenant’s Woman, and revising The Magus, novelist writes of his acute doubts about his work

June 2015

  • Julie Christie in the 1970 film of The Go-Between.

    Top 10s
    The top 10 summers in fiction

    Summer provides an ambiguously idyllic setting for many novels. From LP Hartley to Tove Jansson, these are some of my favourites

March 2015

  • Bowerman's Nose on Hayne Down, overlooking Dartmoor national park, Devon.

    Devon sent: why writers can’t resist the county

    The rugged coastline and rural beauty have proved irresistible to writers from Hilary Mantel and John Fowles to Arthur Conan Doyle and a surfing Agatha Christie
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