Books
The Quiet Novel Is Having a Very Loud Year
Slim, patient books are outselling blockbusters at independent shops. Booksellers have a theory about why.
Culture Editor
Nora Whitlock
Nora writes about books and the people who read them. She has judged two fiction prizes and regrets neither.
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Stories by Nora Whitlock
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Books
The Last Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
A debut about a remote Scottish island earns every one of its long silences.
Books
Why Everyone You Know Joined a Silent Book Club
No homework, no discussion, no awkward wine. Just an hour of reading in the same room as strangers.
Books
A Biography of the Pencil, and Everything It Drew
Theo Marchetti's unlikely history of a humble tool turns out to be a history of thinking itself.
