Jake Kerridge

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The 10 best living American novelists

As the giants fall, who is the greatest living American novelist? Jake Kerridge creates a shortlist

Living American novelists: (from left) Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Rachel Kushner.

James Bond may have a successor – his daughter

How would fans react to agent 007 becoming a family man in the 25th Bond film, and setting up his daughter as his successor? Why ever not, argues Jake Kerridge

Daniel Craig and Berenice Marlohe starred in the 23rd Bond film, Skyfall

Michael Bond’s Wayfinding: navigation mysteries

Are you an egocentric or spatial navigator? Wayfinding tells why some of us are so terrible at map-reading

The book argues that we need to ditch smartphone maps and give our navigational muscles a workout

Great authors’ greatest mistakes

From Shakespeare to the John Boyne, Jake Kerridge digs into a long tradition of factual howlers from the great authors

Shakespeare was not a details man – witness his having Cassius in Julius Caesar say, 'The clock hath stricken three', a millennium or so before mechanical clocks were invented

Review: Russian Roulette, Graham Greene’s biography

At last, a biography that does justice to Graham Greene, says Jake Kerridge

The author Richard Greene is less giddy, and less of a hero-worshipper, than most of the previous biographers

Booker winner ‘Shuggie Bain’ was rejected 32 times

Douglas Stuart’s debut novel faced rejection by publishers multiple times, but it’s not the first successful book to be turned down, says Jake Kerridge

Douglas Stuart’s believes publishers who turned Shuggie Bain down didn’t know how to connect it with readers

Snow Country: Faulks’s sequel to Human Traces a treat

Sebastian Faulks’s earlier novel about psychiatry’s birth was a slog, but this sequel slips down a treat, writes Jake Kerridge

Faulks describes Snow Country as “the second book in a planned Austrian trilogy”

With ‘Billy Summers’, the King of thrillers is back

It takes Stephen King’s genius to turn the cliches of a hard-boiled crime novel into sentimental truths

King relaxes in the short breaks between masterpieces by writing terse, pawky crime novels

Meet the new-gen heirs to Agatha Christie’s crown

This is how the Queen of Crime is inspiring a new generation of bestselling writers all over the world

There’s an outstanding new generation of writers on bestseller lists who proudly admit to emulating Agatha Christie’s intricately plotted whodunits

Rise of the ‘idea genre’: Why non-fiction is booming

Even as we are flipping open the brand new 2021 calendar, Jake Kerridge applauds our thirst for knowledge, but warns we must not be hobbled by current dogma

Publishers seem to have become more confident that the general reader is interested in ideas

The cop and his city: Startling tale of cop corruption

The jaw-dropping tale of a renegade Baltimore police officer makes The Wire look tame by comparison, says Jake Kerridge

The book is journalistic in the best sense, relaying complex information with exemplary clarity

Pat Barker: ‘The Women of Troy’ is not a feminist spin

As her latest novel is published, Pat Barker talks to Jake Kerridge about the problem with prizes, censorship in the literary world, and why she thinks Homer was ‘pro women’

‘The Women of Troy’ tells the story of that Trojan War’s aftermath from the viewpoint of Briseis, a princess taken as a sex slave by the invading Greek hero Achilles

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