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April 2024
Five of the best
Five of the best psychological thrillers by women
These electrifying novels that dig into the peculiar, dark depths of the human psyche will have you questioning who to trust
November 2023
Ottessa Moshfegh: ‘Everyone asked me why I had written such a disgusting female character’
Before My Year of Rest and Relaxation, the author published Eileen, a dark noir about another disaffected woman. As it comes to the screen, she looks back on the extreme reaction to her complex heroine
October 2023
Don’t Look Now at 50: Nicolas Roeg’s mesmeric horror of inescapable grief
The acclaimed adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s short story remains a visually immersive descent and a chilling portrayal of loss
September 2023
Rebecca review – Mrs Danvers steals the show in Du Maurier musical
Among polished performances,Kara Lane’s creepily obsessed housekeeper proves a powerful force
August 2023
Graphic novel of the month
A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll review – haunting gothic tale with a heady whiff of Daphne du Maurier
The award-winning Canadian graphic novelist’s account of a young woman whose widower husband has a dark secret about his first wife is vividly drawn and masterfully plotted
June 2023
Top 10s
Top 10 adventure stories
The genre is often presumed to be one ‘for boys’. Novelists including Virginia Woolf and Georgette Heyer prove that women are just as capable of bold escapes and derring-do as men
June 2022
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Top 10 forests in fiction
Daphne du Maurier, Mervyn Peake and Angela Carter are among the authors enchanted by these shadowy borderlands of civilisation
May 2022
Top 10s
Top 10 novels about inheritance
From Dickens and Du Maurier to Henry James and Shirley Jackson, where there’s a will, there are generally the makings of a great story …
September 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 novels of the 1930s
From George Orwell to Daphne du Maurier, the books that made a decade span village detectives, Edwardian butlers and Bright Young Things
May 2021
Salman Rushdie and Bernardine Evaristo on shortlist for more diverse UK exam texts
OCR board asks teachers to vote on books to make A-level and GCSE English courses more inclusive
April 2021
Further reading
From Jamaica Inn to Treasure Island: the best books about the sea
Author Emma Stonex shares her favourites, including psychological novels by John Fowles and Iris Murdoch, and an illuminating history of lighthouses
October 2020
10 of the best
Rebecca to Rachel: 10 of the best Daphne du Maurier films
Ben Wheatley’s new version of the gothic thriller Rebecca joins an impressive list of big-screen Du Maurier adaptations
September 2020
Call me by my dead wife's name: can Netflix persuade us we need another Rebecca?
You read the book, you know the drill. Will Armie Hammer and Lily James offer any surprises? You already know the answer
August 2020
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June 2019
Inside the Guardian
Guardian Books: 'You can tell a lot about a country by how it treats its libraries'
The books site editor on the challenges facing publishers, and who she would invite to her dream dinner party
April 2019
From fan mail to fiction: the letters from famous authors that made me a writer
As a schoolgirl Julie Myerson wrote to the likes of Daphne du Maurier and John Betjeman. Here, she reveals how their generous replies shaped the person she became
Names in the news
Daphne du Maurier’s hidden treasure gives hoarders hope
Rebecca Nicholson
Those of us wishing for an Antiques Roadshow find of our own were heartened by the discovery of two unknown poems
Unknown Daphne du Maurier poems discovered behind photo frame
Poems believed to have been written by the Rebecca author in her 20s were found by auctioneers before a sale of intimate letters
November 2018
Lily James and Armie Hammer to star in Rebecca movie remake
A new adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel will be directed by High Rise’s Ben Wheatley
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