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The Echo Chamber by John Boyne review – Hogarthian remorselessness

Published: 26 Jul 2021
Books interview John Boyne: ‘People were criticising my book when they hadn’t read it’

Published: 17 Jul 2021

Top 10s Top 10 books about books

From John Boyne to Julian Barnes and Carlos Ruiz Zafón, novelist Antoine Laurain chooses stories that are told inside stories

Published: 4 Nov 2020

John Boyne accidentally includes Zelda video game monsters in novel

Novelist says details from careless Google search are ‘quite funny’ and he will leave his book as is after reader spots Octoroks and Lizalfos in his new book

Published: 3 Aug 2020

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas author defends work from criticism by Auschwitz memorial

After airing his worries about ‘Holocaust genre’ fiction, John Boyne has been accused of ‘perpetuating dangerous myths’ himself

Published: 7 Jan 2020

The Guardian Books podcast Hay festival special with Pat Barker, John Lanchester, Max Porter and more – books podcast

Claire and Sian bring you some of the highlights from the annual books festival held in the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye

Podcast

Published: 4 Jun 2019

John Boyne hits back at critics of transgender novel

Author says it is the job of writers to put themselves into the minds of others

Published: 31 May 2019

Further reading From Jeanette Winterson to John Irving: John Boyne on the best books about LGBT life

As we mark LGBT history month, the novelist selects some classic, personal novels and true accounts of the battle for civil rights

Published: 18 Feb 2019

The Guardian Books podcast Sarah Waters, John Boyne and the 2018 Man Booker prize shortlist – books podcast

As The Little Stranger opens in cinemas, its author considers screen adaptations. Boyne discusses his novel of desperate ambitions – and we discuss the Booker finalists

Podcast

Published: 25 Sep 2018
The Tristan Chord by Glenn Skwerer review – Hitler in his youth

The subject is fraught with problems, but this debut novelist tackles it with skill in an absorbing read

Published: 6 Sep 2018

Reading rooms: the story of an author’s house

John Boyne’s home is now a colourful and peaceful retreat in the heart of Dublin

Published: 18 Mar 2018

2 out of 5 stars.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas review – pirouetting SS officers?
2 out of 5 stars.

Northern Ballet’s adaptation of the Holocaust novel is well danced but profoundly misconceived

Published: 10 Sep 2017
Book of the day Smile by Roddy Doyle review – few laughs, but a fine novel

A chance meeting in a pub leads to the challenging of memories and confronting of demons from the past

Published: 1 Sep 2017

‘At last I felt I fitted in’: writers on the books that helped them come out

Sarah Waters, Edmund White, Jeanette Winterson, Jackie Kay – 50 years after the decriminalisation of homosexuality, writers recall the books that first spoke to them of their lives and longings

Published: 1 Jul 2017

My writing day John Boyne: ‘I began on Wednesday morning and wrote for 60 hours’

The author on writing every day, through the night, and completing the first draft of his The Boy in Striped Pyjamas in two days

Published: 1 Apr 2017

Meet the author John Boyne: ‘The church has become a spent force’

The author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas on the explosion in YA fiction, the abandonment of the Catholic church and why he couldn’t live anywhere other than Dublin

Published: 19 Feb 2017

Nominations for Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals 2017 announced

Children’s laureates Chris Riddell and Malorie Blackman vie with past winners and new faces for the UK’s most prestigious prizes in children’s writing and illustrating

Published: 25 Oct 2016

Children's books Stay Where You Are and Then Leave by John Boyne – review

Joe, Dorset Reading Partners: ‘yet another brilliant book by the author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’

Published: 27 Jun 2016
Children's books Top 10 quotes about tolerance in children's books

A reader recently suffered abuse online for reading an inclusive picture book to his nieces about two princes falling in love, but children’s fiction promotes tolerance and generosity towards all sorts of people. Here are some of the most moving quotations from children’s fiction about being kind to each other

Published: 13 Jun 2016

Children's books Stay Where You Are and Then Leave by John Boyne – review

Joe, Dorset Reading Partners: ‘This is yet another brilliant book by John Boyne, author of Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’

Published: 28 May 2016

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