Bronte Coates
Bronte Coates is the former digital content manager and Readings prize manager.
Blog post — 21 Apr 2015
Books to read while you wait for Go Set A Watchman
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
The parallels between this memoir and To Kill A Mockingbird should be immediately apparent; social justice lawyer Bryan Stevenson…
Review — 26 Feb 2014
Bark by Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore fans rejoice. Her first new collection of stories in 15 years is here and reading it will remind you of why you fell in love with her corrosive…
Review — 22 Mar 2015
Mothermorphosis edited by Monica Dux
Religion, politics and money are usually cited as the top three topics to avoid at a dinner party, but surely parenthood trumps them all. To the uninitiated, the mysterious world…
Review — 22 Sep 2014
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels are relentless and ferocious, and wholly absorbing. With each new book, the story of Elena Greco and her friend, Lina Cerullo, intensifies, and in Those Who…
Blog post — 4 Feb 2015
Best ideas for Harry Potter spin off novels
As a die-hard fan of both the boy wizard AND adaptations, interpretations, re-dos of all kinds, I’m looking forward to the inevitable Harry Potter spin off novels that someone will…
Review — 22 Apr 2014
Only The Animals by Ceridwen Dovey
The animals who narrate the stories in Ceridwen Dovey’s collection have each been killed during a human conflict of the past century: Himmler’s dog is abandoned in the woods; a…
Blog post — 19 Jan 2015
Every Kazuo Ishiguro novel, ranked
In anticipation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s upcoming novel The Buried Giant – his first in ten years – Bronte Coates ranks his previous novels from worst to best.
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Blog post — 12 Jan 2015
Four books that resonated with me in 2014
Bronte Coates shares four books she read in 2014 that have stayed with her.
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
But although…
Review — 27 Jan 2015
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
Eula Biss’s elegant examination of our fear of vaccination opens with Achilles being dipped into the River Styx and closes with the metaphor of a garden. In between, Biss talks…
Blog post — 14 Jul 2014
Retro Reads: Daddy Long-Legs by Jean Webster
In our new Retro Reads series, we remember books from our past. Here, Bronte Coates talks about Jean Webster’s
I was a vicious reader as a child, an obsessively competitive…