{"id":987,"date":"2015-12-08T12:49:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T12:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=987"},"modified":"2017-01-13T11:57:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T11:57:36","slug":"the-guardian-best-novels-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2015\/12\/08\/the-guardian-best-novels-of-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian &#8216;Best Novels of 2015&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/staff\/preston.html\">Alex Preston <\/a>(Lecturer in Creative Writing) appeared in the Guardian over the weekend, contributing to their &#8216;Best Books of 2015&#8217; series. Alex&#8217;s &#8216;Best Novels of 2015&#8217; included the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015 <em>A Brief History of Seven Killings<\/em> by Marlon James, which Alex describes as &#8216;violent, polyphonic&#8217; and &#8216;masterful&#8217;, and School of English alumnus Kazuo Ishiguro&#8217;s latest novel <em>The Buried Giant<\/em>. You can read Alex&#8217;s full review on the Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/dec\/06\/best-fiction-2015-marlon-james-jonathan-franzen-ishiguro\">website<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Preston (Lecturer in Creative Writing) appeared in the Guardian over the weekend, contributing to their &#8216;Best Books of 2015&#8217; series. Alex&#8217;s &#8216;Best Novels of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2015\/12\/08\/the-guardian-best-novels-of-2015\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}