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Sara Baume


April 2022

  • Sara Baume with her dog Tove on Long Strand, near Clonakilty, Cork

    Seven Steeples by Sara Baume review – an astonishing prose poem

    Two people withdraw from city life and retreat to the countryside in this tender chronicle haunted by loss

February 2018

  • Golden eagle

    Swansong by Kerry Andrew review – a modern folk tale

    A young woman runs away to the Highlands in an enigmatic novel rich in detail and musicality

December 2017

  • From left, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Toni Morrison, Kit de Waal, Anne Enright and Flann O’Brien.

    'Women are better writers than men': novelist John Boyne sets the record straight

    Male authors are always pronouncing their own brilliance – or boasting about not reading books by women. So, after a lifetime spent writing and attending literary festivals, John Boyne would like to get something off his chest …

April 2017

  • West Cork 5/3/2016 Author Sara Baume © Patrick Bolger

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Sara Baume, Peter Bazalgette and the art of empathy – books podcast

    Novelist Sara Baume discusses her novel A Line Made by Walking, while broadcaster Peter Bazalgette makes the case for prioritising compassion in The Empathy Instinct

March 2017

  • Sara Baume, author of A Line Made By Walking, her second novel.

    A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume – review

    A young woman combats her depression by moving to the countryside in this finely calibrated, affecting novel

February 2017

  • The Big Picture

    Critical eye
    A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baum; Jonathan Lethem’s The Blot; Sean Carroll’s The Big Picture

    What the critics thought of A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baum; Jonathan Lethem’s The Blot; Sean Carroll’s The Big Picture
  • ‘I have ideas and I pursue them to the end’ … Sara Baume.

    A life in ...
    Sara Baume: ‘I always wanted to be an art monster’

    The author recalls her youthful dreams of a Turner prize victory and the run-in with doctors that led to her second novel
  • Precise sentences … Sara Baume. Photographs: Patrick Bolger for the Observer

    Book of the day
    A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume review – the art of falling apart

    The follow-up to Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a fascinating portrait of an artist’s breakdown in rural Ireland

December 2016

  • West Cork 5/3/2016 Author Sara Baume © Patrick Bolger

    Sara Baume's 'irresistible' debut novel wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize

    Spill Simmer Falter Wither takes award seen as a bellwether of future achievement for ‘tender and uncompromising’ debut novel

September 2016

  • Author Mike McCormack

    Books blog
    Why are Irish publishers shut out of the Man Booker prize?

    Sarah Davis-Goff
    While the award aims for ever greater inclusivity, one of the newer rules closes the competition to some of the very best writing in English

March 2016

  • Kevin Curran

    ‘Ireland is becoming no place for the young… we need brave people willing to be bad citizens’

    One hundred years on from the Easter Rising, amid economic crisis and deep uncertainty in Ireland, five young novelists offer a personal view of their homeland today

November 2015

  • Ann Enright at the Guardian book club

    Books blog
    Motifs, mottos and misfits shape the 2015 Costa award shortlists

    A common thread runs through each of the five shortlists for this year’s Costa awards, but there’s always space for an outsider
  • Andrew Michael Hurley, the British novelist, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2015. Edinburgh, Scotland. 21st August 2015<br>F23EHA Andrew Michael Hurley, the British novelist, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2015. Edinburgh, Scotland. 21st August 2015

    Costa category awards 2015: tiny presses square up to big hitters

    The shortlists for the five prizes include award-winners Anne Enright and Kate Atkinson – and a gothic thriller set in Morecambe Bay, with an original print run of 300
  • John Aubrey My Own Life by Ruth Scurr

    The Costa category shortlists 2015 – in pictures

    This year’s five shortlists pit Alice in Wonderland against a 17th century diarist, a collection of sonnets against a hymn to male flesh, and English pastoral against stories of war

October 2015

  • Illustration to go with Irish fiction piece

    A new Irish literary boom: the post-crash stars of fiction

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    Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume review – a deft and moving debut

September 2015

  • Sara Baume

    Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume review – instils fear and wonder

  • Maria Edgeworth, circa 1754.

    Books blog
    Bringing Irish short stories by women into the spotlight

August 2015

  • The longlist for the Guardian first book award 2015

    Guardian first book award 2015 longlist – in pictures

  • The writer Nell Zink

    Independent publishers dominate 2015 Guardian first book award longlist

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