Forget the guide book: Immerse yourself in these location-based novels
From Elena Ferrante in Italy to Hervé Le Tellier in France and Orhan Pamuk in Turkey, enrich your travelling experience with works immersed in your chosen setting
Annie Ernaux
Freedom from language: the life and work of Rachel Cusk
A new book explores how Rachel Cusk’s writing illustrates a conflict between restlessness and stasis – an attention to the ways in which time pauses and passes
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020 by Diarmaid Ferriter - A hugely valuable exploration of a rollercoaster time
Book shows that even as Ireland has changed, its biggest problems remain ‘deep-rooted and historical’
London play paused after theatregoers feel faint during abortion scene
The Years is based on the autobiography by French Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux
A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux: Writing her mother
French author explores an intimate, complex relationship with hyper-personal objectivity
The Super 8 Years: Lucid, unpretentious language, but the medium has changed irretrievably
Nobel prize-winner in literature Annie Ernaux digs through home-movie footage from the 1970s that sheds light on years raising children and finding herself as an artist
Annie Ernaux: ‘Women have not become the equals of men in terms of liberty and power’
Writer is the 17th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and 16th French citizen to do so
Annie Ernaux: This year it’s easy to get enthusiastic about the Nobel Prize for Literature
Annie Ernaux's work is unfailingly honest about life as a late-20th-century woman
Hilary Fannin: My pals and I didn’t understand the stern forces that extinguished our youth
I was 17, working in a restaurant, smoking Rothmans and reading Edna O’Brien
Happening review: Unwanted pregnancy in 1960s France
Audrey Diwan’s award-winning study has the tension of a thriller
Cannes 2022: God’s Creatures starring Paul Mescal to premiere at upcoming festival
‘Special screening’ planned for offbeat horror film starring Kerry woman Jessie Buckley
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Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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