The previous decade ended with obituaries for the hard-copy book but literature lives on and the 2010s have given readers plenty to get excited about.

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Topic | Books and Literature

James Kidd

Published: 10:00pm, 21 Dec, 2019

Updated: 9:54am, 24 Dec, 2019

The previous decade ended with obituaries for the hard-copy book but literature lives on and the 2010s have given readers plenty to get excited about.

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James Kidd

James Kidd is a freelance writer based in Oxford, Britain. His writing has appeared in The Independent, Literary Review, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The National, Time Out and The Jerusalem Post among others. He hosts the This Writing Life podcast (thiswritinglife.co.uk), featuring interviews with writers such as Hanya Yanagihara, David Mitchell, Amit Chaudhuri and Meena Kandasamy, and co-hosts Lit Bits (litbits.co.uk), named by The Observer as one of its top three literary podcasts.