The National, May 2017 It barely seems believable in our 21st-century, always-connected culture, but when Abdulrazak Gurnah’s mother died, the Zanzibar-born, Booker Prize-shortlisted author did not find it out for days. By the time someone was […]
The National, May 2017 It is, without question, the most eagerly awaited novel of the year. Paula Hawkins has been the very definition of a publishing sensation since her psychological drama The Girl on […]
The National, April 2017 It begins with a beheading. Then another, and another, until nine severed heads are found in a sleepy Iraqi village. It’s a shockingly vivid introduction to the violent, chaotic world of […]
The National, April 2017 In Gulf folk tales, the fox is a trickster. In the West, the mammal, which roams so many city settings, is nearly always described as wily or sly. But in Paula […]
The National, April 2017 It has all the ingredients of a classic crime drama. A 13-year-old girl on holiday disappears on a lonely, wintry English moor. The tight-knit rural community solemnly hunts for her as helicopters […]