Literary studies: postcolonial literature

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

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‘A story about hope, imagination and resilience’GUARDIAN

Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.

‘So wise and so well done. It made me wish it were much longer than it is’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and We, The Survivors comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage.

‘So wise and so well done. It made me wish it were much longer than it is’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and We, The Survivors comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage.

Writers shortlisted for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize read their shortlisted stories

Writers shortlisted for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize read their shortlisted stories

Three acclaimed works for the stage by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

This is a chapter taken from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, The Rest is Noise.

Writing inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing.

By turns, an unsparing and joyous account of life in a postwar London rooming house by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.