Jesus is fiction’s latest protagonist
Novelists such as Colm Tóibín and Naomi Alderman are breathing new life into the gospels.
Novelists such as Colm Tóibín and Naomi Alderman are breathing new life into the gospels.
Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker-winning <em>Wolf Hall</em> was up for the Costa Novel Award, but Colm Tóibín’s <em>Brooklyn</em> got the nod.
Three hundred years ago Samuel Johnson declared that "no man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money". Irish novelist Colm Toibin afrees.