‘We need to wake up’: what authors wish for Britain as a new chapter begins
This month's best paperbacks
This month’s best paperbacks: Colson Whitehead, Britney Spears and more
July 2023
After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley review – supremo of the short story
Book of the day
After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley review – brilliantly subversive stories
February 2023
Audiobook of the week
Free Love by Tessa Hadley audiobook review – female self-discovery
Actor Abigail Thaw narrates this intimate and gripping story of political and sexual awakening in middle-class suburbia
May 2022
Top 10s
Top 10 novels about neighbours
From commune-dwellers to lodgers in miniature, the people we live alongside make intriguing subjects for fiction
January 2022
Free Love by Tessa Hadley review – an affair to remember
Novelist Tessa Hadley: ‘If I met my characters, I might not like them’
July 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 platonic friendships in fiction
From Doris Lessing to Dickens and John Irving, these tales show how passionate, intense and vital ‘just’ friendships can be
September 2019
A book, then a play, now Litvinenko’s story is coming back to the small screen
Richard Brooks
The murdered Russian dissident’s case is to become an ITV drama. And the National Gallery gets first dibs on a baroque masterpiece
February 2019
Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley review – marriage under the microscope
Hadley’s seventh novel explores the world of domestic intrigue
Book of the day
Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley – review
Two long-term couples’ lives are changed by a sudden death in Hadley’s wonderful tale of ageing and adultery
Tessa Hadley: ‘Long marriages are interesting. You either hang on or you don't'
After secretly turning her hand to fiction in her forties, Hadley is enjoying widespread acclaim. She talks about happiness, motherhood and her four failed novels
September 2018
Book of the day
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss review – back to the iron age
Ancient rituals and present-day abuse converge in a brief and brilliant novel with its roots in England’s deep past
August 2018
Made in ...
Tessa Hadley on Bristol: ‘It taught me to love its beauty and to be suspicious of it too’
The author recalls playing on buddleia-filled bombsites – and discovering the city’s slavery past
November 2017
Books that made me
Tessa Hadley: The Rainbow changed my life – DH Lawrence is a life force
The writer on the brilliance of Colm Tóibín and Alice Munro and why she isn’t ashamed not to have read Brave New World
February 2017
Critical eye
A Woman’s Work; Bad Dreams; Moonglow
What the critics thought of A Woman’s Work by Harriet Harman; Bad Dreams by Tessa Hadley; Moonglow by Michael Chabon
January 2017
Bad Dreams and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley review – complex and agile
A new set of her low-key, finely balanced stories of family relationships demonstrates once again Hadley’s unerring craft
Book of the day
Bad Dreams by Tessa Hadley review – enthralling short stories
A sleepless mother and daughter wander their house by night while a girl accepts a ride from a stranger in a collection of breathtaking delicacy
My writing day
Tessa Hadley: ‘Some of my best ideas come in the bath’
The author on putting writing on hold for everyday life, and finding inspiration
