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Sarah Perry

30 July 2024

  • ‘We need a cultural economy that can sustain a career in the arts’ … Bayadère: The Ninth Life by Shobana Jeyasingh.

    ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

    Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, Steve Coogan, Adjoa Andoh, Danny Dyer, Jesse Darling and many more spell out what must be done to restore Britain’s cultural lifeblood, from ending elitism to supercharging libraries – and flooding schools with music
  • Lisa Allardice

    This Booker longlist might just be the most enjoyable of recent years

    Lisa Allardice
    No Sally Rooney, one clear favourite and a novel set in space - this is a longlist of unexpected discoveries and big ideas
  • Booker’s dozen … the 2024 prize longlisted titles.

    Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’

    Hisham Matar, Sarah Perry and Samantha Harvey in running for prize, along with the first Native American and Dutch authors ever to be nominated

June 2024

  • Summer reading 2024

    Your holiday reading list: chosen by Zadie Smith, David Nicholls and more

    Leading authors including Bernardine Evaristo, Armistead Maupin and Alice Roberts recommend books to read this summer

May 2024

  • Sarah Perry.

    Enlightenment by Sarah Perry review – cosmic strangeness

    This defiantly old-fashioned tale of two misfits, a ghost and a blazing comet showcases Perry’s unerring capacity to make the earthly new and strange

April 2024

  • Sarah Perry.

    Books interview
    Sarah Perry: ‘For much of my life, I loved God. The echo of that never fades’

    The Essex Serpent author on astronomy, her new novel Enlightenment and how her strict Baptist upbringing made its mark

January 2024

  • James by Percival Everett, Lauren Elkin, The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez, Evie Wyld, This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud, Kevin Barry, My Friends by Hisham Matar and Miranda July. Fiction to look out for in 2024

    2024 culture preview
    Fiction to look out for in 2024

    The first great lockdown novel, new tales from David Nicholls, Sarah Perry and Percival Everett, and Rachel Kushner’s contender for the Booker… next year promises to be special

May 2022

  • Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston in “The Essex Serpent,” premiering globally May 13, 2022 on Apple TV+.

    ‘When Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston were cast I was in shock’: Sarah Perry on The Essex Serpent

  • Down the rabbithole

    Down the rabbit hole
    What links The Essex Serpent to a brave De Niro impression and a Taylor Swift T-shirt?

  • Here be serpents … a coastal Essex that time forgot

  • Sea monsters drawn by sixteenth-century German cartographer Sebastian Munster.

    From Loch Ness to the Essex Serpent, why are humans so keen to invent sea monsters?

July 2021

  • Review magazine cover 31st July 2021 syringe fountain pen

    As an author, I felt useless in the pandemic. So I trained to be a vaccinator

    Inspired by a desire to be good and help others during the pandemic, novelist Sarah Perry trained to vaccinate people. But what does it mean to be good when there is so much bad faith?

February 2021

  • From left: Rumaan Alam, Ian Rankin, Madeleine Thien, Sarah Perry and Margaret Atwood.

    My favourite Ishiguro: by Margaret Atwood, Ian Rankin and more

    Authors choose the Kazuo Ishiguro novels closest to their hearts, including Never Let Me Go, The Buried Giant and The Remains of the Day

October 2020

  • TOWIE women

    How I learned to love being an Essex girl

    Novelist Sarah Perry carried Essex with her ‘like a white patent leather bag’ -until she discovered the county’s history of remarkable and outspoken women

May 2020

  • pencil in rain drops

    Struggling to read, or write? How to be creative in lockdown

  • Sarah Perry portrait session, London, UK - 09 May 2017<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Julian Simmonds/REX/Shutterstock (8822748h) Sarah Perry Sarah Perry portrait session, London, UK - 09 May 2017 Sarah Perry, author of After Me Comes The Flood (2014) and The Essex Serpent (2016), won the prestigious Book of the Year at the British Book Awards for The Essex Serpent.

    Sarah Perry: what good are books, in a situation like this?

January 2020

  • Tidal causeway to Northey Island National Trust bird reserve, Blackwater Estuary, England.

    'I complained bitterly throughout': Sarah Perry on how she wrote The Essex Serpent

    During an afternoon drive through Essex, Perry learned about a 17th-century legend of a mysterious beast menacing the area. What if it came back?

January 2019

  • British author Michael Donkor, outside his home in London.

    Dylan Thomas prize: teacher and nurse among 'starburst' of young talent

    Sally Rooney, Sarah Perry and Michael Donkor among those longlisted for £30,000 prize for books by writers aged 39 or under

November 2018

  • THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES [UK/1959] CHRISTOPHER LEE WRITER: SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (NOVEL) FILM RELEASE BY HAMMER FILM PRODUCTIONS LTD.

    Top 10s
    From Hound of the Baskervilles to the Essex Serpent: top 10 folk tales in fiction

  • Sarah Perry

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Myth-making with Sarah Perry and Maria Dahvana Headley – books podcast

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