Speaking to Penguin about the new series, Evaristo said she was excited to introduce the books “to new readers who will discover their riches”. She explained: “These books will take the ...

If you thought Bernardine Evaristo’s impact on the publishing industry was limited to her incredible books, think again. The series – which aims to correct the “historic bias” which ...

Natalie A Carter and Melissa Cummings-Quarry, founders of Black Girls Book Club, sit down with Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo to talk about writing Black women, having a slow burn career ...

4. Her local library inspired her passion for books and reading “Oh, I loved it, loved it so much,” explains Bernardine. “I would go down to the library [in Woolwich, south London] every ...

“Nobody was waiting for me to publish books. Nobody was commissioning me. I just wrote on spec and hoped that somebody would publish me.” 6. She changed her accent as a teenager Evaristo grew ...

After sharing 2019’s Booker Prize with the incredible Bernardine Evaristo, Margaret Atwood, who won for The Testaments, saluted her co-winner: “I would have thought I would have been too ...

Bernardine Evaristo is an author and professor of creative writing ... To call this novel original doesn’t do justice to such a phantasmagoric work of art. Ward’s books deepen our understanding of an ...

In Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo traces the histories of 12 different characters in the U.K. over more than 100 years. With each new woman comes a distinctive perspective on feminism ...

“I think I have a pattern, where each book I write speaks to the one before”: Listen to Bernardine Evaristo on the inspiration ... “I laughed and wept reading those books and kept going ...

Bernardine Evaristo is the celebrated writer and activist ... asked why she didn’t pursue writing despite having a love for books. “When you come from a working-class background, it’s ...

From Chaucer, Shakespeare and Dickens to Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro and Bernardine Evaristo, London has long ... chic coffee table books or antiquarian tomes, you’ll find them in one of the ...