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A surprising romance is set against a backdrop of climate crisis, political instability and corporate corruption in this bleak but witty novelRosa Rankin-Gee follows her 2021 near-future climate-crisis dystopia, Dreamland,…
June 2, 2026
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In less than a decade, surrounded by screens, I lost my ability to read some of the best books ever written. But, inspired by the Guardian’s 100 best novels list,…
June 2, 2026
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Fiction
Set in the aftermath of the famine, the Hamnet author’s family saga folds in myth and folklore‘His father was ever a man of few words,” begins Maggie O’Farrell’s 10th novel,…
June 1, 2026
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From a young age, the author was told that one of her ancestors had drawn some of the first maps of Ireland. Then she found a photograph, and embarked on…
May 31, 2026
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Fiction
The Women’s prize-shortlisted novelist on taking inspiration from John Steinbeck, Joan Didion and Jhumpa Lahiri, and weeping through Little Women in her 30sMy earliest reading memory I’m not sure what…
May 29, 2026
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Fiction
Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami; All Flesh by Ananda Devi; The White Desert by Luis López Carrasco; The Home of the Drowned by Elin Anna LabbaSisters in Yellow by…
May 29, 2026
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Fiction
A British and American film crew descend on the Northern Irish city to film a drama about the Troubles, in a keenly observed and snappily written debutThe premise of Séamas…
May 29, 2026
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Audiobooks
This compendium of 49 of Britain’s threatened species features lyrical prose poems evoking each bird’s unique qualities and beautiful recordings of their distinctive callsThe Book of Birds delivers a stark…
May 28, 2026
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Parents and parenting
Before having a child, I had endless days to think about writing. Now, half an hour can suddenly become a window of creativityBecoming a parent is hard. Eight to 12…
May 28, 2026
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Fiction
Shortlisted for the Women’s prize, this story of a writer’s infatuation with an older woman begins with bracing verveRozie Kelly’s frank and feisty debut novel, which has been shortlisted for…
May 28, 2026
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Fiction
The author of When I Hit You returns with a pithy, savagely funny tale of online shaming and the Indian manosphereWe can all agree that the internet today, especially two…
May 27, 2026
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Marcel Proust
Daunted by Proust or Joyce? Letters from Ian Arnott, Mike Bromberg and Andrew Keeley on giving up on a long readDave Patten says Proust’s In Search of Lost Time was…
May 26, 2026
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