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Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry is author of three novels, After Me Comes the Flood, The Essex Serpent and Melmoth

June 2024

  • John Burnside.

    ‘His greatness was matched by his kindness’: remembering John Burnside

    Writers Andrew O’Hagan, Sarah Perry and more pay tribute to the celebrated Scottish poet, novelist and memoirist, who died last week aged 69

September 2022

  • Hilary Mantel.

    Hilary Mantel remembered: ‘She was the queen of literature’

    The beloved writer of the Wolf Hall trilogy and Beyond Black has died. Here, leading contemporaries pay tribute

July 2022

  • A British summer day in the life: Flixton, Suffolk by Sarah Perry

    One summer's day
    Sarah Perry’s postcard from England: ‘Cream tea defeats us. It’s the best we ever had’

    On 2 July we sent six writers and photographers to capture a typical UK summer’s day. Author Sarah Perry headed to Flixton, Suffolk for big planes and tiny tarts

May 2022

  • Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston in “The Essex Serpent,” premiering globally May 13, 2022 on Apple TV+.

    ‘When Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston were cast I was in shock’: Sarah Perry on The Essex Serpent

    As an adaptation of her bestselling novel comes to screens, Sarah Perry describes the joys of being on set – and how the production restored her faith in storytelling

July 2021

  • Review magazine cover 31st July 2021 syringe fountain pen

    As an author, I felt useless in the pandemic. So I trained to be a vaccinator

    Inspired by a desire to be good and help others during the pandemic, novelist Sarah Perry trained to vaccinate people. But what does it mean to be good when there is so much bad faith?

June 2021

  • six authors composite - top - Hilary Mantel, Bernardine Evaristo, Torrey Peters. bottom - Ian Rankin, Yuval Noah Harari, Richard Osman

    Summer books: Bernardine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, Richard Osman and more on what they’re reading

    Authors share the books they have enjoyed reading this year, including a hilarious dark comedy, poetry and a study of mystery illnesses

February 2021

  • From left: Rumaan Alam, Ian Rankin, Madeleine Thien, Sarah Perry and Margaret Atwood.

    My favourite Ishiguro: by Margaret Atwood, Ian Rankin and more

    Authors choose the Kazuo Ishiguro novels closest to their hearts, including Never Let Me Go, The Buried Giant and The Remains of the Day

October 2020

  • TOWIE women

    How I learned to love being an Essex girl

    Novelist Sarah Perry carried Essex with her ‘like a white patent leather bag’ -until she discovered the county’s history of remarkable and outspoken women

September 2020

  • Cripple Creek, Colorado<br>Shops along Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado, circa 1962. (Archive Photos/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Jack by Marilynne Robinson review – a Calvinist romance

  • *** BESTPIX *** Ikea Reopens Stores In England And Northern Ireland As Coronavirus Lockdown Eases<br>WARRINGTON, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 01: Customers socially distance themselves as the queue to enter Ikea Warrington. The store opening saw large queues of people and traffic on adjacent roads as it reopened after the pandemic lockdown on June 01, 2020 in Warrington, United Kingdom. The furniture and housewares chain reopened its stores across England and Northern Ireland subject to several restrictions, keeping its restaurants closed and asking customers to shop alone. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

    Risky business: the shadow of constant threat is changing us

July 2020

  • Edinburgh, UK. 25th August 2017. David Mitchell, the English novelist, appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Gary Doak / Alamy Live News<br>K0W6FK Edinburgh, UK. 25th August 2017. David Mitchell, the English novelist, appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Gary Doak / Alamy Live News

    Book of the day
    Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell review – a musical journey

    This portrait of a 60s band on the rise conveys the spirit of the age with gleeful energy

May 2020

  • Sarah Perry portrait session, London, UK - 09 May 2017<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Julian Simmonds/REX/Shutterstock (8822748h) Sarah Perry Sarah Perry portrait session, London, UK - 09 May 2017 Sarah Perry, author of After Me Comes The Flood (2014) and The Essex Serpent (2016), won the prestigious Book of the Year at the British Book Awards for The Essex Serpent.

    Sarah Perry: what good are books, in a situation like this?

    The Essex Serpent author has been filling her days with sewing, baking and music - but not writing. How can you find meaning in work that feels useless?

January 2020

  • Tidal causeway to Northey Island National Trust bird reserve, Blackwater Estuary, England.

    'I complained bitterly throughout': Sarah Perry on how she wrote The Essex Serpent

    During an afternoon drive through Essex, Perry learned about a 17th-century legend of a mysterious beast menacing the area. What if it came back?

September 2018

  • Art for Sarah Perry Review cover on writing under influence

    Out of my mind: Sarah Perry on writing under the influence of drugs

    When a medical condition left her in agony, The Essex Serpent author was prescribed powerful opiates. They gave her terrifying visions - and a new insight into literary drug culture
  • Still from the novel’s 2017 film adaptation, Spoor.

    Book of the day
    Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk – the entire cosmic catastrophe

    An astonishing amalgam of murder mystery, dark feminist comedy and paean to William Blake from the Polish winner of the 2018 International Man Booker prize
  • Chelmsford High Street view down on classic example of one time busy traffic highway paved over for the benefit of shoppers<br>AMDR9F Chelmsford High Street view down on classic example of one time busy traffic highway paved over for the benefit of shoppers

    Made in ...
    Sarah Perry: ‘Chelmsford made me, because I seldom went elsewhere’

    The Essex Serpent author recalls a childhood playing truant in the library, and feeling an offhand affection for the town that has since warmed into pride

April 2018

  • Sarah Perry

    Sarah Perry on her struggle to become a writer: ‘I was poor and getting poorer’

  • An Old Woman Cooking Eggs (detail), 1618, by Diego Velázquez at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.

    Book of the week
    Painter to the King by Amy Sackville review – a virtuoso portrait of Velázquez

February 2018

  • An Iraqi man repairs radios in Baghdad. Photograph: Reuters

    Book of the day
    Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi review – strange, violent and wickedly funny

    Absurdist morality fable meets horror fantasy as a victim of sectarian violence is brought back to life in Iraq

December 2017

  • 1995, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE<br>JENNIFER EHLE &amp; COLIN FIRTH Character(s): Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy Television ‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICE’ (1995) Directed By SIMON LANGTON 24 September 1995 SSV86161 Allstar/BBC (TV-Minisierie, UK 1995) / Literaturverfilmung (based on the book by Jane Austen) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of BBC and/or the Photographer assigned by the TV or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above TV Programme. A Mandatory Credit To BBC is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the TV Company.

    From Jane Austen to haunting memoirs: books to open your eyes to inequality

    In the second part of our series, we asked Sarah Perry, Jeffrey Sachs, Sebastian Barry, Monica Ali, Richard Wilkinson, Julian Baggini, Kate Pickett and Afua Hirsch to tell us which titles helped shape their views on inequality
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