The Book in my Hand

Without burdening it with too many thoughts of my own, let me cue up the controversy surrounding American writer Lionel Shriver, author of the bestselling 2003 novel We Need to Talk About Kevin . At a recent writer's conference in Brisbane, Shriver ...

The Enterprise Centre is one of the greenest buildings in the UK. The University of East Anglia has a surprising cultural history. Benjamin Britten, England's greatest composer, was a musical adviser at the music school and Kazuo Ishiguro and ...

more stories from this episode When Irish-Canadian novelist Emma Donoghueadapted her novel Room for the screen, many critics questioned whether a movie version of the bestsellingbook could do the story justice. The film went on to win the ...

Reminiscence Bumps: self-mythology and the landscapes of the mind by Eleanor Holmes When I think about the landscapes of the mind, I recall the undulations of the brain's surface. The ridges and valleys of cortex, the gyri and sulci I had ...

TMa, YH, and KN, drafting the article and conception of this study; TMa, HY, MS, SU, MO, YH, KD, JO, MI, HS, HT, TI, and AT, recruiting study participants; YK and TMu, revising the article critically for important intellectual content. YH is the ...

By Georgia Clark | Off the Shelf Editors Note: At Off the Shelf , we love crazy. Crazy narrators, that is. And happily, we're not alone. So we're very excited that Georgia Clark, author of The Regulars , shared her favorites with us. Call ...

"It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to." …….Kazuo Ishiguro ...

Celie, born into poverty in the American South, starts writing to God when her abusive father makes it clear that no-one else will listen to her. Mistreated by her father and later by her husband, Celie does everything she can to protect her ...

07/9/16 View in slideshow If you're an introvert, one of the best ways to recharge is with a good book. There's nothing better than a storyline that really speaks to you, so we rounded up 16 books with themes and characters that introverts ...