novelist

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The British novelist Gwendoline Riley introduces her narrator, Laura, through a series of episodes that capture her uneasy foray into adulthood—caught between her working-class origins and her new place among London’s creatively ambitious, self-involved elite.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

“The vogue when I was writing ‘Dept. of Speculation’ was for realist doorstopper books that were self-consciously about big ideas,” explains the novelist, who published her now-classic fragmentary novel in 2014.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

The British novelist Gwendoline Riley is the kind of young voice that Russell might have appreciated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

“He said, ‘I think you’re a great American novelist.’

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Papa's friend, the novelist who lives above the tavern.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper