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Ned Beauman

February 2023

  • Ned Beauman at Edinburgh book festival in 2014

    The books of my life
    Ned Beauman: ‘After reading Terry Pratchett, it feels like something is missing from most fiction’

    The novelist on his lifelong love of William Gibson, discovering Norman Lewis and making peace with Austen

July 2022

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    Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman review – mischievous meaning-of-life satire

    A will-they-won’t-they relationship plays out in Sweden in this clever tale of a world carved up by ‘extinction credit’ traders

August 2017

  • Ned Beauman at the Edinburgh international book festival.

    Madness Is Better than Defeat by Ned Beauman review – hijinks in the Honduran jungle

  • Ned Beauman author photo credit Alice Neale

    Meet the author
    Ned Beauman: ‘There’s something extremely seductive about madness’

May 2015

  • Zadie Smith.

    Books blog
    The Guardian first book award: 16 years of talent-spotting

    As nominations for 2015 open, it’s a good time to remember that the prize isn’t just the sum of its winners but of all the shortlisted stars of the future

December 2014

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    Stranger than fiction
    Stranger than fiction: writers reimagine the weirdest bits of 2014

    Six writers imagine what happened behind the scenes of some of the year’s most unlikely events. John Crace introduces a year of big surprises

August 2014

  • The Guardian Books podcast
    Ned Beauman and Javier Cercas – Edinburgh books podcast

    We cross over to the dark side with novels from Javier Cercas and Ned Beauman

May 2014

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    Glow by Ned Beauman review – a new drug hits London

    The Man Booker-nominated author is overwhelmed by his own tortuous plot, writes Edward Docx

April 2014

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    Glow review – Ned Beauman juggles complex tangents and satisfying twists

    Tim Lewis on a powerful thriller from the youngest of 2013's Granta Best Young British Novelists

March 2014

  • George Saunders, who won the inaugural Folio prize for his book Tenth of December.

    US authors take the literary prizes but British writers still pushing boundaries

    As US writer George Saunders wins first Folio fiction prize, the message to young UK talent waiting in the wings is don't despair

December 2013

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    Guardian Weekend magazine's Christmas ghost stories
    Christmas ghost stories: Light And Space by Ned Beauman

    Ned Beauman, one of Granta's best young British novelists this year, tells a dark tale of romance and resin, art and heartache

March 2013

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    Alex Clark's best young British novelists

    Ahead of Granta's 2013 list, former Granta editor and veteran of the 2003 judging panel Alex Clark picks her 20 favourites

August 2012

  • The Guardian Books podcast
    Guardian Books podcast: Ned Beauman and Alasdair Gray at Edinburgh International Book Festival

    In our podcast from day four of the festival, Booker longlisted author Ned Beauman muses on The Teleportation Accident and Alasdair Gray considers the independence vote for Scotland

July 2012

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    The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman – review

  • Ned Beauman

    Meet the author
    Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'

October 2010

  • Guardian first book award shortlist

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Guardian first book award: The shortlist

  • Guardian first book award: tweet for your favourite author

August 2010

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    Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman

    Scarlett Thomas relishes a debut novel that messes with reality

June 2010

  • Watchmen

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Graphic fiction

    In the week that the 2010 Observer/Cape prize for graphic short stories launches, Ned Beauman and Rachel Cooke discuss the best in the genre, and Julian Hanshaw gives us the backstory to his new book, The Art of Pho

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