Joe Dunthorne
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Are you finding it hard to concentrate, or don’t know where to start? Michael Frayn, Marian Keyes, Richard Osman and more share their tips
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Mark Haddon and Natalie Haynes took on Greek myth, Queenie made us laugh and Toni Morrison returned with essays. Here are our highlights across fiction, poetry, non-fiction and children’s books
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On this week’s show, Crossan talks about using poetry in her novel-in-verse Toffee and Dunthorne shares why he writes poetry to escape novelsPodcast
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The author recalls joyriders, smokestacks and empty beaches, in a city with a cracked personality
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When novelist Joe Dunthorne’s son was born, he and his wife hardly slept, found beauty in hospital vomit bowls and heard hip hop horn samples in the squeaks of the electric bed. It was, he says, a magical time.
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A thirtysomething father-to-be struggles with the demands of adulthood in Dunthorne’s witty, economical third novel
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The 2011 London riots form the backdrop to a comedy about millennial angst and rampaging house prices
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The author of new comic novel The Adulterants on how becoming a parent helped him create his latest misanthropic anti-hero
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From gripping fiction to history, brilliant poetry to biography, our guest contributors offer their recommendations for the beach and elsewhere
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Should you use exotic euphemisms or anatomical detail? Should it be comical, tender or shocking? And what if your mum reads it? Three generations of writers reveal the pitfalls – and pleasures – of writing about erotic encounters
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From Alan Garner to RS Thomas, Bruce Chatwin to Dylan Thomas, the mythic power of place in these works casts a potent spell, writes Cynan Jones
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'My early career was almost entirely motivated by the desire to show her I wasn't the idiot loser I had appeared to be'
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Writers including Tom McCarthy and Joe Dunthorne consider whether the coming of computers and the net has changed the way they write
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They can write books, but can they tweet? Here are 10 authors you should follow
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As US writer George Saunders wins first Folio fiction prize, the message to young UK talent waiting in the wings is don't despair
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From brainwashing to tree hugging to mandatory sexual sharing, the author shares his favourites from a tiny genre full of big ideas
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Writers, Observer critics and others tell us their favourite reads of 2013 – and what they hope to find under the tree
O Positive by Joe Dunthorne review – natural joker finds a new home