Bookshelf

Bookshelf

I was embarrassed when dubbed Achebe’s heir – Obioma

Chigozie Obioma was long-listed for the 2015 Guardian First Book Award and recently short-listed for The Man Booker Prize for his debut novel ‘T

THE LAST GOOD BOOK I READ…Social Campaign Manager, Iwona Pawluk Beksińscy Double Portrait by Magdalena Grzebałkowska.

This book is a biography of a contemporary polish painter and his son who committed suicide, whereas the painter was murdered. “I read it becaus

Ta-Nehisi Coates to write Black Panther comic for Marvel

Ta-Nehisi Coates can be identified in many ways: as a ] correspondent for The Atlantic, as an author and, as of this month, as a nominee for the Natio

William Boyd: My advice for budding authors

At a Guardian Live event to discuss his new novel, William Boyd gave an insight into what it takes to be a novelist – so would you make the grad

Chigozie Obioma makes 2015 Man Booker Prize shortlist

Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma was announced this week as one of the writers shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novel ‘The Fisherman.