Fabulous by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review – short stories lost in the myths
Too much whimsy and garbled storytelling mar this collection based on the classics
June 2017
Peculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review – family fears in a walled-off world
An Oxfordshire estate is the focus of this extraordinary study of social upheaval down the years
May 2017
Peculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review – a well-marshalled family saga
A life in ...
Lucy Hughes-Hallett: ‘Here I am, late in life. I wanted to write a novel all that time’
July 2016
Best holiday reads 2016
From gripping fiction to history, brilliant poetry to biography, our guest contributors offer their recommendations for the beach and elsewhere
July 2015
Best holiday reads 2015
Authors, critics and philosophers tell us which books they will be reading on the beach
December 2014
Books blog
Biography’s Victorian values: why do modern Lives adhere to a 19th-century model?
Literary form needs refreshing in any genre, but most modern life stories seem stuck in a deadening past
January 2014
Kate Atkinson favourite to win Costa book of the year award
Former winner emerges as frontrunner for her novel Life After Life, with Lucy Hughes-Hallett's The Pike second favourite
The Guardian Books podcast
Lucy Hughes-Hallett and the best of 2014 – books podcast
Costa biography prize-winner Lucy Hughes-Hallett on her life of the poet and proto-fascist Gabriele D'Annunzio, plus a look ahead to the best books of 2014
Nathan Filer wins Costa first-novel award with The Shock of the Fall
Novel, described as 'one of the best books about mental health', goes on to compete for overall prize
November 2013
Costa book awards 2013: late author on all-female fiction shortlist
Charlotte Higgins on what it's like to NOT win the Samuel Johnson prize
My hero
My hero: Giacomo Matteotti by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Lucy Hughes-Hallett: 'I'd take tea with Hitler'
Biography of Italian fascist wins Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction
Samuel Johnson non-fiction shortlist: From the Romans to Thatcher
February 2013
The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio – poet, seducer and preacher of war by Lucy Hughes-Hallett – review
The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio – Poet, Seducer & Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett – review
July 2005
Hero worship
Carl Wilkinson is swept off his feet by Lucy Hughes-Hallett's survey of supermen, Heroes.
October 2004
They make things happen
Old-fashioned hero-worship is barely tenable in our egalitarian age, says Colin Burrow, but we still do our best to keep it up. Lucy Hughes-Hallett suggests why in Heroes.
