The Body Snatchers is a study in paranoia
Published in 1955, Jack Finney’s novel The Body Snatchers captures a community – and country – gripped by fear and mistrust.
4 lessons for writers in The World According to Garp
John Irving’s novel, The World According to Garp, is about a writer. As such, it contains and reflects the reality of writing for a living.
The Stepford Wives nailed ‘feminist dystopia’ a decade before The Handmaid’s Tale
In The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin imagines a creepy, claustrophobic world in which women are man-made, and feminism doesn’t exist.
Feel like you don’t belong? Here are 6 books you can relate to
Literature loves a misfit. Here are 6 books which explore themes of isolation, alienation, fitting in – and doing your own thing.
Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata
Convenience Store Woman sticks two fingers up to fitting in. This is a book for misfits (and anyone with a taste for modern Japanese fiction).
Jaws: 10 reasons why the book is very different from the film
They may start and end similarly, but the bulk of Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel Jaws is almost unrecognisable from Spielberg’s 1975 film adaptation.