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Lisa Allardice

Lisa Allardice is the Guardian's chief books writer

March 2025

  • Older woman standing on stack of books

    If you only read one book this year … make it this one!

    From dystopian Australian cli-fi to essential essays about Black Britain and Jack Reacher’s thrilling debut – authors, critics and booksellers all have a single recommendation

February 2025

  • Anne Tyler.

    ‘It seemed wrong to write about normal life after that horrendous election’: US novelist Anne Tyler

  • Han Kang 2 (c) Park Dahuim

    ‘I want to be hopeful’: Nobel prize-winning novelist Han Kang on the crisis in South Korea

November 2024

  • Maggie O Farrell.

    Novelist Maggie O’Farrell: ‘Children don’t just need butterflies and rainbows’

    The Hamnet author talks about bringing her bestselling Shakespeare novel to the screen, working with Paul Mescal, and how her speech disorder inspired her latest children’s book
  • ‘The Melville of the skies’ … Harvey the day after winning the Booker.

    ‘I’m so not an astronaut!’ Samantha Harvey on her Booker-winning space novel – and the anxiety that drove it

    She won the top prize with a time-distorted novel set on the International Space Station. Yet, the writer reveals, Orbital is actually ‘a celebration of Earth’s beauty with a pang of loss’ – fuelled by her anxiety-induced insomnia
  • Sigrid Rausing, photographed in her London home looking into the distance looking happy/sad

    Books interview
    Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing: ‘Working while grieving was consoling’

    The editor and author on completing the memoir by her late friend, Swedish writer Johanna Ekström, where she stands on the assisted dying bill and what she’s reading

September 2024

  • Sally Rooney in Merrion Square, Dublin.

    Sally Rooney: ‘Falling in love when I was very young transformed my life’

    Sally Rooney on romance, writing about sex and, the Normal People phenomenon and her new novel, Intermezzo

August 2024

  • Rachel Kushner.

    ‘Writing this book was like a drug high’: Rachel Kushner on her Booker-listed novel

    The author on her party years in San Francisco, why she loves getting older and her most ambitious novel yet

July 2024

  • Some but not all … Booker prize 2024 authors, clockwise from top left: Percival Everett, Tommy Orange, Rita Bullwinkel, Rachel Kushner, Hisham Matar, Sarah Perry.

    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
  • Edna O'Brien at her home in London.

    Edna O’Brien: her fearlessness paved the way for today’s female Irish writers

    The County Clare-born author was telling stories of women and their sex lives 50 years before Sally Rooney was bornIrish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93
  • Taffy Brodesser-Akner.

    ‘You can write anything about sex, but you cannot talk about money’: Taffy Brodesser-Akner on life after Fleishman

    Her bestselling debut, Fleishman Is in Trouble, became a hit TV series. Now Taffy Brodesser-Akner is taking on the American dream

June 2024

  • A goldfish pond with lilies made from the pages of books

    Summer reading: 50 of the best new books to dive into

  • VV Ganeshananthan: she is pictured standing outdoors in a park with trees in the background; she is in her mid-40s and has shoulder-length dark, wavy hair; she wears a black dress with a lighter pattern plus a gold pendant necklace.

    ‘Don’t read just one book about Sri Lanka’: VV Ganeshananthan on her civil war novel

May 2024

  • Jenny Erpenbeck and Michael Hofmann at the International Booker prize ceremony at Tate Modern.

    ‘It was high time I told our stories’: Jenny Erpenbeck on her International Booker winner Kairos

  • Alice Munro.

    ‘Reading her stories is like watching a virtuoso pianist perform’: Alice Munro remembered

  • Alice Munro

    Five of the best
    Five of the best Alice Munro short stories

  • Paul Lynch photographed in Dublin for the Observer New Review by Tristan Hutchinson, 30 April 2024.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Paul Lynch: ‘When you win the Booker, you are told you won’t write for a year’

  • The Ministry of Time author Kaliane Bradley: ‘It was just so much fun’

  • ‘This is much more intimate’: Colm Tóibín on writing a sequel to Brooklyn, 15 years on

  • ‘I can say things other people are afraid to’: Margaret Atwood on censorship, literary feuds and Trump

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