Russell Hoban: Turtle Diary; Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer; The Medusa Frequency – worth rejoicing in
The American writer’s first eight novels for adults have been reissued as Penguin Modern Classics, offering a banquet of whimsical delights
March 2020
Book clinic
Book clinic: which books examine modern masculinity?
Writer Darran Anderson bypasses Houellebecq in favour of fiction from Édouard Louis to Hanif Kureishi
November 2017
Reading group
Riddley Walker's post-apocalyptic Mr Punch
Deeply rooted in British culture, the anarchic puppet unsurprisingly caught the eye of American author Russell Hoban, and he gives him disturbingly vivid life
Reading group
Finding your way around Riddley Walker's world
In this novel’s post-literate realm, it is harder to work out what is happening than in most fiction. But we can’t mistake its intensely human story
Reading group
Worth the 'trubba': making sense of Riddley Walker's language
Russell Hoban worked and reworked his story to create his narrator’s strange, post-apocalyptic vernacular. It makes for difficult but rewarding reading
October 2017
Reading group
Reading group: Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban is November's choice
Top 10s
Top 10 human-animal relationships in literature
September 2015
Play time
Rosie's Magic Horse review – classic children's book is reined in on stage
Russell Hoban’s tale of an adventure to a lollipop mountain is adapted with some lively flashes but this show loses the original’s oblique charms
February 2015
Children's books
What are the best children's picture books on horses?
The Book Doctor recommends wonderfully inspiring books with equine stars for younger children
December 2014
Families in literature
Families in literature: The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban
Children's book reviews round-up
The best teenage fiction this Christmas
December 2013
Books blog
The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban: moving metaphysics for kids
Both comforting and devastating, this tale of two discarded toy mice by the Riddley Walker author is a profound little book – the equal, in some ways, to the Alice books, writes Stuart Kelly
Children's book reviews round-up
Christmas 2013: best picture books for children – review
Festive fare includes pussies galore, an amazing dog and a baby donkey bound for Bethlehem, writes Kate Kellaway
The best children's literature of 2013
From picture books for toddlers to novels for teens, Julia Eccleshare and Michelle Pauli choose this year's standout titles
April 2013
Cif belief
Why Riddley Walker rivals the Passion as the perfect Easter story
Sarah Ditum
Sarah Ditum: Russell Hoban's 1980 dystopian classic is melodramatic and unique, and suggests there is more to human beings than being human
December 2012
The Borrowers; The Mouse and His Child; Robin and His Merry Mam!; Dial M for Murgatroyd
Theatres across the country are enjoying full houses as we laugh off austerity at some great Christmas shows, writes Clare Brennan
November 2012
Julia Eccleshare's choice
Christmas gifts 2012: the best children's books
The Mouse and His Child – review
July 2012
Short story: Message in a (Klein) Bottle by Russell Hoban
Love is brewing on London's Exhibition Road in the last short story written by cult author Russell Hoban, who died last year
March 2012
Children's books
My top 5: poetry books
From Ted Hughes to Russell Hoban, Valentine's top 5 shows that poetry can be beautiful or funny - or both
