Katie Law

ABOUT

Katie Law is the Books Editor of the Evening Standard. She has been on the staff for over thirty years and as well as writing book reviews, she contributes author interviews and arts-related features. She moved from north to west London in the 1990s and when not reading, is usually gardening or trying to make glazed white bowls. ... MORE

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Katie Law is the Books Editor of the Evening Standard. She has been on the staff for over thirty years and as well as writing book reviews, she contributes author interviews and arts-related features. She moved from north to west London in the 1990s and when not reading, is usually gardening or trying to make glazed white bowls.

<p>Hugh Grant in Notting Hill</p>
Film

The best films set in London, from Notting Hill to Blow Up

The capital’s cobbled back streets, historic buildings and exquisite parks have long attracted the world’s best filmmakers

21 May 2024
<p>The Shining</p>
Film

The 10 best Stephen King adaptations, from Stand By Me to the Shining

From prison-dramas to hotel-horrors, some of Hollywood’s best films have been Stephen King story adaptations

19 Apr 2023
<p>Rezzie, steady, go: it’s time to take it outside</p>
Restaurants

London’s best terraces for al fresco dining

The sun is finally here and it’s time to head to city’s top terraces. The ES Writers name their favourite al fresco go-tos

17 Jun 2022
Books

What London’s Reading Now: this week’s bestselling top 5 books

Continuing our regular series highlighting the books that Londoners are loving right now

13 Aug 2021
<p>Great Circle is Maggie Shipstead’s third novel</p>
Books

From the skies to the silver screen: Maggie Shipstead on Great Circle

Maggie Shipstead tells Katie Law about how travel inspired her third novel Great Circle, which tells the story of a fearless female aviator and a Hollywood rebel who later portrays her on screen

26 May 2021
<p>Will Young will judge the young adult category of our What’s Your Story? writing competition</p>
Books

Will Young: My story of how I overcame gay shame and found my peace

Today the Evening Standard in association with Netflix launches its first Stories Festival. Will Young, a speaker and a judge of our What’s Your Story? writing competition, tells Katie Law  about why it’s so vital to help young people find their voice

26 May 2021
<p>Claire Eastham</p>
Books

Claire Eastham: ‘F**k I Think I’m Dying

After ten years of living with undiagnosed social anxiety, the author suffered a sudden, catastrophic breakdown during a routine office interview. She thought she was having a heart attack. She tells Katie Law about the root causes and triggers for her panic attacks, and how she has learned to tame them

4 May 2021
Books

Our favourite fiction reads in lockdown: the books that kept us going

Sales of fiction soared during the pandemic as we sought refuge from our own surreal reality. Evening Standard writers on the stories they couldn’t get enough of...

29 Apr 2021
<p>Marian Engel</p>
Books

Bear by Marian Engel review

Hailed as an erotic masterpiece when it was first published in the 1970s, this Canadian feminist tale, published in the UK for the first time, about a woman having sex with a bear in the wilds of northern Ontario, is a completely nutty but oddly beguiling fantasy, says Katie Law

22 Apr 2021
<p>Alex Riley</p>
Books

A Cure for Darkness by Alex Riley: How I live with mental illness

Lobotomies, electroshock therapy and crippling medication are just some of the treatments that have been used to treat depression in the past. Science writer and sufferer, Alex Riley decided to write a book about the history and treatment of depression, partly to help heal himself, he tells Katie Law

13 Apr 2021
<p>Douglas Stuart</p>
Books

Douglas Stuart on life after winning the Booker Prize

He became the most sought-after author overnight, but being stuck indoors in lockdown meant everything was virtual. Douglas Stuart tells Katie Law about his next novel, turning Shuggie Bain into a TV series and why his story has universal appeal

8 Apr 2021
<p>Fresh as can be: 40 Dean Street’s pasta, made daily in the restaurant </p>
Restaurants

The restaurants we can’t wait to return to

After far too long locked up, the Standard’s writers are practically drooling at the thought of getting back out on the town

8 Apr 2021
<p>Marco Missiroli</p>
Books

Fidelity by Marco Missiroli review

Already a bestseller in Italy and currently being made into a Netflix series, this novel about love, fidelity and the cost of betrayal is an absolute scorcher, says Katie Law

31 Mar 2021
<p>Jean Hanff Korelitz, Nicole Kidman & Hugh Grant </p>
Books

Jean Hanff Korelitz on transforming her novel into The Undoing

Katie Law talks to the author about how her novel You Should Have Known became The Undoing for HBO, why erasing the Jewish elements from the original story didn’t matter, meeting Nicole Kidman on set and touching that coat

23 Mar 2021
<p>Sleep guru Matthew Walker</p>
Books

World Sleep Day: meet Matthew Walker, the man of your dreams

It’s World Sleep Day today and as lockdown lack of sleep continues to be one of the nation’s biggest battles, neuroscientist and author of Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker shares his top tips with Katie Law for how to get a better night’s kip

19 Mar 2021
<p>Julie Burchill</p>
Books

Julie Burchill finds new publisher and apologises for tweets

After her tweets about Islam were deemed offensive, publishers Hachette cancelled Julie Burchill’s book. Now an Edinburgh-based indie publisher is bringing it out instead, and Burchill has issued a full apology

16 Mar 2021
<p>From left clockwise: JK Rowling, Jordan Peterson, Jeanine Cummins, Julie Burchill</p>
Books

A war on words: how cancel culture is taking over the literary world

Books pulled last minute and staff threatening to strike because they disagree with JK Rowling - Katie Law reports on how publishing went woke

16 Mar 2021
<p>Jean Hanff Korelitz</p>
Books

You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz

The absorbing novel that David E Kelley adapted and turned into the bestselling HBO miniseries, The Undoing starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant

11 Mar 2021
<p>Edward St Aubyn</p>
Books

Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn review: an ambitious novel of ideas

The author of the brilliant autobiographical Melrose sequence returns with an ambitious novel of ideas about genetic heritability, climate change and the role of technology in neuroscience, but does he pull it off, asks Katie Law

8 Mar 2021