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Laurence Sterne

August 2021

  • Jas Treadwell Author Image c. Mat Smith

    Book of the day
    The Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach – a homage to 18th-century fiction

    Jas Treadwell’s picaresque adventure is a virtuoso performance that resonates with our own strange times

August 2020

  • British Gentlemen in Rome by Katharine Read, circa 1750.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about the Grand Tour

    Adding finish to young aristocrats’ education in centuries past, and recorded by Goethe, Sterne and others, these alluring journeys had a very dark side

June 2020

  • Steve Coogan in the 2005 film A Cock and Bull Story, a spinoff of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

    A book that changed me
    As a 20-year-old student I didn't laugh very much. Then I read Tristram Shandy

    Liam Williams
    I was a rookie standup when I came across Laurence Sterne’s classic, and it changed my view of not just comedy, but life, says comedian and writer Liam Williams

October 2018

  • Javier Marias Presents New Book<br>MADRID, SPAIN - SEPTEMBER 05: Writer Javier Marias attends the 'Berta Isla' book presentation at Bertelsmann space on September 5, 2017 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Eduardo Parra/Getty Images)

    Books that made me
    Javier Marías: ‘I gave up on Karl Ove Knausgaard after 300 pages’

    The author and translator on the guilty pleasure of rereading Ian Fleming, the power of Tristram Shandy – and his childhood love for Just William

March 2018

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    Books blog
    The Life and Opinions of Laurence Sterne: the first unapologetic literary celebrity

    Tristram Shandy is one of the most funny and deliciously conversational novels ever written – produced by an obscure Yorkshire clergyman who relished his fame

October 2017

  • Cain slays Abel with a jaw-bone By Unknown Miniaturist, French (active 1190s at Saint-Bertin) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

    Crossword blog
    Crossword blog: a vintage murder mystery with a bizarre twist

    Seventy-eight years after his death, an old Torquemada puzzle returns, with a hefty prize for the first to solve it. Could you identify both the killers and the victims?

July 2017

  • Menabilly Daphne du Maurier

    Pemberley, Manderley and Howards End: the real buildings behind fictional houses

    From Charlotte Brontë’s Norton Conyers to Alan Hollinghurst’s Canford Court – the little known locations that inspired the most famous homes in literature

April 2017

  • BECOMING JANE<br>ANNE HATHAWAY Character(s): Jane Austen Film 'BECOMING JANE' (2007) Directed By JULIAN JARROLD 02 March 2007 SSO56826 Allstar Collection/BUENA VISTA **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. A Mandatory Credit To BUENA VISTA is Required. For Printed Editorial Use Only, NO online or internet use. 0511z@yx

    Books blog
    Pride and Prejudice and progress: the best second novels of all time

    Debuts hog the publishing limelight, but a glance back at some great books, from Jane Austen to James Joyce, shows that we shouldn’t neglect sophomores

August 2015

  • Gulliver's Travels

    The 100 best novels
    Did the 100 best English language novels make enough room for the Irish?

    Nine Irish authors made it into Robert McCrum’s selection of the best fiction of all time. But were they the right ones, and were there enough of them?

April 2015

  • Salman Rushdie.

    Books blog
    Salman Rushdie's star ratings of fellow novelists revealed

    Salman Rushdie’s dim view of some generally acknowledged classics has emerged by mistake through his GoodReads account. It’s an error we should welcome, says Alison Flood

January 2015

  • Trainspotting

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best quotable novels

    Certain works of fiction have so many memorable lines that they’ve entered everyday language. Alex Clark picks her favourites

April 2014

  • Gardens: Shandy Hall

    Gardens: think outside the box

    Shandy Hall, where Laurence Sterne wrote Tristram Shandy, has a garden to match its former occupant's wild imagination, finds Caroline Beck

November 2013

  • Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in Tristram Shandy: A cock and bull story

    Laurence Sterne at 300 - quiz

    This year is the tricentenary of the birth of Laurence Sterne, author of the classic novel Tristram Shandy. After 300 years, is his comic classic still alive in your heart?

October 2013

  • Film Title: Cock and Bull Story.

    The 100 best novels
    The 100 best novels: No 6 – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1759)

    Laurence Sterne's vivid, rambling novel has lost little of its original bite, writes Robert McCrum

August 2012

  • Robinson in Ruins

    Top 10s
    Patrick Keiller's 10 favourite books with pictures

  • The public birth scene from a 2000 theatre production of The Handmaid’s Tale

    Why doesn't fiction deliver birth scenes?

December 2011

  • 10 of the best
    John Mullan's 10 of the best: coaches

    From Henry Fielding to PD James, here are some of the landmark coach rides in literature. What have we missed?

September 2011

  • Artwork to raise funds for the Laurence Sterne Trust

    Celebrated marbled image in Tristram Shandy inspires fundraising auction

    Perplexing page of the classic novel prompts 169 leading artists to donate work in aid of the Laurence Sterne Trust

November 2010

  • Sue Arnold's audiobook choice
    Sue Arnold's audiobook choice – reviews

    Flanagan's Run, A Sentimental Journey and The Last Matchmaker

August 2009

  • Sue Arnold's audiobook choice
    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

    Tristram Shandy is decidedly odd and extremely long, but it has stayed the course, says Sue Arnold

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