News about Elizabeth Strout

Claire Allfree reviews the best Literary Fiction of the week: Tell me Everything by Elizabeth Strout, The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk, All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles.

The insider has rated the forthcoming series as'republican fiction,' which is reported to have implied that Prince Philip was 'pursuing an affair' with Penny Knatchbull.' An acquaintance of the family, who has yet to watch the series air next month, told The Telegraph: "It is one thing for a script to be drivel, and another to be so cruel." I think they've shot themselves in the foot more than with this, but for the majority, it will simply pass them by.'

Elizabeth Strout's Booker-shortlisted Oh William! Lucy Barton, widowed novelist Lucy Barton, and her first husband William, bring them both to Maine together in their autumn years. The eagerness to return to one's life as autumn gets under way is captured in Leigh Bardugo's The Disappearance, the concluding story in Marple, a new collection of 12 short stories by contemporary writers all featuring Agatha Christie's elderly sleuth, Miss Marple

Gaby Wood (pictured right) was announcing the shortlist for the Booker Award 2022 at Serpentine Pavilion in London on Tuesday, when she laughed about the members of a book club in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, when she referred to the occupations of the members of a book club. The video was posted on Twitter and has since been taken down, but not before people began accusing Ms Wood of'snobbery' for how she responded to working-class readers. Ms Wood told MailOnline that she regretted "the offence triggered by what was supposed to be a commemoration of reading." Ms Wood's reaction was 'patronizing' and'sickening,' according to one working-class writer.

This year's Booker Award shortlist only includes one British writer. Alan Garner (pictured right), the longest author ever shortlisted, will compete for the £50,000 draw with his book Treacle Walker. Perpett and Elizabeth Strout, Zimbabwean NoViolet Bulawayo, Shehan Karunatilaka of Sri Lanka, and Claire Keegan from Ireland are among the writers competing against Americans Perpetual Everett and Elizabeth Strout, Elizabeth Strout, Elizabeth Strout, and Claire Keegan from Ireland.