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Kate Saunders, while reading for the Orange Prize, felt that 'publishers seem enormously scared of too much originality. Many of the first novels we had to read this year appeared to be watered-down copies of something else.' Perhaps what these writers need is practice. Regrettably, there is no longer much opportunity (with the honourable exception of editor Louise Chunn's initiative in Good Housekeeping) for novices to publish stories in magazines. Publishing your first novel is as daunting as cold calling. 'It is much harder,' Pat Kavanagh says, 'to get first novels across to a general reader when there is no obvious promotional handle'. Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker dies aged 64 with grieving bandmates saying they're 'devastated and gutted' Some of our most popular articles on the Journal are the longer articles that explore a subject in some depth. At the top of my list of recommendations is The Faber Interview, our series of profiles of Faber writers that focus as much on their publishing history as their newest title. This year, Max Liu shone a light on the remarkable Booker long-listed author Francis Spufford and Orhan Pamuk (pictured) spoke to Boyd Tonkin ahead of the publication of Nights of Plague, one of the biggest books of the year. An extra writer-on-writer piece came in the form of a brilliant essay from Nicola Upson about her crime series featuring a fictionalised version of classic crime fiction writer Josephine Tey. Ferne McCann looks cosy in a cardigan and beanie hat as she takes daughters Sunday, 6, and Finty, 4 months, to Winter Wonderland

Leaving your beauty routine out in the cold? Three beauty experts on the skin, hair and nail tips they're giving their celebrity clients this winter This intelligent novel is about the bawling boring baby months that feel like years, as described by an acerbic intellectual American mom. There is fury, depression, loneliness and love but it is the friendship forged between two new mothers that shines. Jane came to writing relatively late. After reading English at university she worked for a couple of years at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, and then for a dozen years during the 1990s in the poetry department of Faber. It wasn’t until she left London for Devon, in 2001, where she took over the running of the charity, Farms for City Children, that she began to write with any serious intent. Anne Enright is brilliant on motherhood in her life-affirming memoir Making Babies, but her novels have always afforded mothers and childcare the serious literary treatment they warrant too. Her forthcoming novel, The Wren, The Wren, out in September, is immaculate on the “new, liquid impulses towards this creature in the cot” and how these liquid impulses travel through the generations. Catherine Heaney grew up in Dublin, and has worked as journalist and editor in Dublin and London, at various magazines, and at the publishing company 4th Estate. From 2011 to 2014, she was head of Faber and Faber’s creative writing school Faber Academy. In 2016, Catherine edited a volume of essays, Trinity Tales: TCD in the Nineteen Nineties, published by Lilliput Press. She is a director of the estate of her father Seamus Heaney, and works with publishers and cultural institutions to preserve and promote her father’s work and legacy. Catherine is based in London.Stacey Dooley shows off daughter Minnie's lookalike red hair as she stuns fans with a HUGE announcement: 'This can't happen already!' Much is left unsaid about the relationship - the author’s obsession with Ardu is very clearly pronounced, but there is an air of mystery about why she is so tied to him. Is it his looks, brains, aloofness or a combination that attracts her? Why is she willing to be treated so badly by a man who fritters away his life? Why is she unable or unwilling to move on from him? Princess Martha Louise shares snaps of her partying after winning business woman of the year for her clothing brand at Elle Norway Gala Here’s a brazenly partial look at the plays I can’t wait to see in the first few months of 2022 – all of which will be published by Faber.

Olivia Munn puts on a busty display in a very plunging bright red swimsuit as she teases fans while sipping on a can of sodaThis is one of those books – you want to read it again from the moment you finish it. Brilliant, illuminating, fierce and feminist.’ Julia Bell