Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
An exhilarating ride; funny, oddly touching, written with garish clarity … And in Billy we’ve found a hero for our times.
Mark Wilson
Independent
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Mariella Frostrup talks to Ben Fountain about his bestselling novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Open Book
BBC
Karl Pilkington on the afterlife
Karl Pilkington on baldness
“There really is no correct way to consume this book. Read it from front to back, from back to front, or simply pick letters at random; whichever one you land on will offer you a snapshot of history in a format that we cannot afford to let die”
Letters Live at Freemasons’ Hall, Covent Garden http://letterslive.com/
The trailer for the Ang Lee adaptation of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, based on the novel by Ben Fountain
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‘Some of the letters will make you laugh, other heartbreaking examples will make you cry’
James Kidd
The Independent
“If a bullet’s going to get you, it’s already been fired”
Kevin Barry’s Beatlebone, triumphant at the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize!
‘As Barry follows John’s strange journey, the boundaries between fact and fiction, author and subject, past and present morph. Dark, trippy and comic, Beatlebone is a heady exploration of creativity and identity’
Francesca Wade
The Telegraph
‘If the novel loses innovation it’s f****d’: Beatlebone wins the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize.
Goldsmiths Prize
gold.ac.uk
Kevin Barry narrates this short video for his Goldsmiths-winning novel Beatlebone.
‘Al Aswany is above all a superb storyteller and creator of characters: 50 pages in, there is no turning back … A remarkable and devastating portrait of a deeply unhappy society, in the guise of a novel that is at once funny, perceptive and affectionate’
Caroline Moorehead
The Spectator