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Celebrities and authors reveal 7 books they're reading this summer

What do the people who write books for a living like to read on their holidays? Here's what they told us

Woman & Home

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry review – life-affirming musical reckons with death

Mark Addy plays the Bunyanesque everyman whose trip to the postbox becomes a spiritual journey set to glorious foot-stomping songs

The Guardian - UK

In brief: The Homemade God; Mythica; There Are Rivers in the Sky – review

Long-buried truths leave siblings reeling when their father dies; a fascinating reclamation of Homer’s forgotten women; and still waters run deep in a centuries-spanning novel

The Guardian - UK

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The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce review – portrait of a patriarch

The mysterious death of an artist causes havoc among siblings in a novel that astutely observes family dynamics

The Guardian - UK

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry movie review: a patchy adaptation of the novel is elevated by its leads

More skilful rounding out of the supporting characters would have given this version of the bestseller some ballast

Evening Standard

Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023: the novelists and their books in the running

From stories about the US opioid crisis, to novels set in 16th century Italy, this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist has something for everyone

Evening Standard

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry review – Jim Broadbent hits the road

Jim Broadbent’s Harold goes on a 600-mile quest in Rachel Joyce’s sad and quirky story that is undermined by its implausibility

The Guardian - UK

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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry review: British cinema can do road movies after all

In our The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry review, we argue that Hettie McDonald's road movie is anything but pedestrian.

WhatToWatch

Maggie O’Farrell and NoViolet Bulawayo make Women’s prize for fiction longlist

Nine debut novels are among the 16 books up for the 2023 award, alongside novels by Natalie Haynes, Sophie Mackintosh and Barbara Kingsolver

The Guardian - UK

Review: 'Maureen,' by Rachel Joyce

FICTION: The wife of the peripatetic Harold Fry goes on a pilgrimage in this sequel to Rachel Joyce's bestseller.

Tribune News Service

Laurie Hertzel: Fiction to look forward to in 2023

Top novels and story collections for the first quarter of the year.

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