British Literature

News

Kazuo Ishiguro's Next Novel Is a 1930s Spy Caper. Yes, Really.

Five years after <em>Klara and the Sun</em>, Kazuo Ishiguro announces <em>Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger</em> — a 1930s spy novel set in London, due March 2027. James Whitmore on what this actually means.

Authors

Nobody Believed in Julian Barnes. The Princess of Asturias Prize Begs to Differ.

Julian Barnes wins the 2026 Princess of Asturias Prize for Literature — a long-overdue recognition of one of British fiction's most precise and quietly devastating voices, four decades in the making.

Reviews

Men in Love: Irvine Welsh Returns to His Favourite Territory

Irvine Welsh's new novel 'Hombres enamorados' lands with El Cultural describing it as 'Trainspotting's hangover of drugs, sex and class.' Which is, more or less, what every Irvine Welsh novel has been described as since 1993.

News

Six Young Writers on the Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlist

The 2026 Dylan Thomas Prize reveals six writers under forty doing something genuinely interesting — from Seán Hewitt's debut novel to Colwill Brown's unsettling fiction.