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  • A frog in duckweed in Ellon, Aberdeenshire.

    Book of the day
    The Elephant in the Room by Liz Kalaugher review – how we make animals sick

    Edward Posnett
  • Dutch angle shot of a man in a green and black checked shirt and a red cap standing in front of a bookstore receiving a book from someone to his right and passing a book to someone on his left.

    News
    ‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one

    A small Michigan community banded together to help a beloved local bookstore move its stock to a new storefront
  • Megan Hunter

    Fiction
    Days of Light by Megan Hunter review – Bohemian rhapsody

    Clare Clark
    The privileged world of Bloomsbury group is vividly evoked in this novel of a life shaped by devastating loss
  • actor on stage

    Fiction
    Audition by Katie Kitamura review – a literary performance of true uncanniness

    Sam Byers
  • stack of books with the top one fanned open

    Feature
    A new chapter for publishing? Book subscription services launch their own titles

  • Monochrome photograph of two young men, one black and one white, dancing

    History books
    We Were There by Lanre Bakare review – reimagining Black Britain

    Jason Allen-Paisant
  • Gaelic football in Fun and Games.

    Fiction
    Fun and Games by John Patrick McHugh review – teenage dreams

    Thomas McMullan
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What to read

  • Composite Image of Best Paperbacks April 2025

    Paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Elif Shafak, Richard Ayoade and more

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

    Where to start with
    Where to start with: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    • HHhH by Laurent Binet; Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst; I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman.

      What we're reading
      What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in March

Non-fiction reviews

  • Sepideh Gholian

    Society books
    The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club by Sepideh Gholian review – like no recipe book you’ve ever read

    Alex Clark
  • 3 LTT 2 14.2.23. Bird School - a selection of images from the interior that are taken by the author Adam Nicolson and clear to use for publicity.

    Science and nature books
    Bird School by Adam Nicolson review – where are all our feathered friends?

    Stephen Smith
    The nature writer turns a beady eye on the fluctuating fortunes of bird species and considers why the past 60 years have seen such a drop in numbers
  • A Palestinian woman walks past a reconstructed relief ornament in Khirbat al-Mafjar popularly known as Hisham's Palace an early Islamic archaeological site near Jericho, in the West Bank Israel. Image shot 2012. Exact date unknown.<br>D21PHA A Palestinian woman walks past a reconstructed relief ornament in Khirbat al-Mafjar popularly known as Hisham's Palace an early Islamic archaeological site near Jericho, in the West Bank Israel. Image shot 2012. Exact date unknown. FORGOTTEN PALESTINE

    History books
    Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials review – existence is resistance

    Alex Preston
    In mapping the Palestinian history and culture that persists despite Israeli suppression, Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson display a strength of purpose and a promise of hope
  • Portrait of Erik Satie (1866-1925), Playing the Harmonium. Artist: Rusi?ol, Santiago (1861-1931)<br>Portrait of Erik Satie (1866-1925), Playing the Harmonium. Found in the collection of Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

    Music books
    Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman review – the radical lord of light entertainment

    John Banville
  • Frances Ryan - courtesy of Frances Ryan

    Autobiography and memoir
    Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life by Frances Ryan review – countering the stereotypes

    Stephanie Merritt
  • Augusto Pinochet in Chile in 1987.

    History books
    38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands review – Pinochet and the Nazis

    Rafael Behr
  • A storm at the Black Sea. Vama Veche, Romania

    Language books
    Proto by Laura Spinney review – how Indo-European languages went global

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Fiction & poetry reviews

  • Constance Debré

    Fiction in translation
    Name by Constance Debré review – a demolition of bourgeois life

    Lara Feigel
  • A lesbian and gay rights march in Cardiff. The rally is in protest against Clause 28 of the proposed local government bill. Marchers in St Mary Street. 30th January 1988.<br>2J2J142 A lesbian and gay rights march in Cardiff. The rally is in protest against Clause 28 of the proposed local government bill. Marchers in St Mary Street. 30th January 1988.

    Fiction
    Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter review – a headlong rush through the turbulent Aids era

    Nick Duerden
    Porter’s urgent prose propels the reader into the gay scene of the 1980s and early 90s as his protagonist’s life is torn apart by the HIV crisis
  • sun, ice and a boat

    Science fiction roundup
    The best science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

    Lisa Tuttle
    Sleeper Beach by Nick Harkaway; Some Body Like Me by Lucy Lapinska; City of All Seasons by Oliver K Langmead & Aliya Whiteley; Rose/House by Arkady Martine; The Cat Bride by Charlotte Tierney
  • Gabrielle Griffiths (Credit Sophie Davidson)

    Fiction
    Greater Sins by Gabrielle Griffiths review – a dark discovery upturns a Scottish village

    Lucy Popescu
  • Kit de Waal.

    Fiction
    The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal review – the power of kindness

    Colin Grant
  • Bound for Brazil in Eden’s Shore.

    Fiction
    Eden’s Shore by Oisín Fagan review – hilarious, beautiful and very violent

    AK Blakemore
  • bunting at a garden party

    Fiction
    Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford review – wild trouble in a child’s world

    David Hayden
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Children's and YA books

  • Padraig Kenny's chapter book After

    Children's books
    The best new chapter books

    Kitty Empire
  • Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob, Huw Aaron

    Children's book roundup
    Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
    Sleepy monsters; a wacky broken robot; a search for magical treasures and more
  • Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob, Huw Aaron

    Children's books
    Picture book reviews

    Laughter abounds with tales of mini beasts at bedtime, a box filled with babbling babies and an odd-couple comedy from Julia Donaldson
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Interviews

  • Katie Kitamura portraits

    Interview
    Novelist Katie Kitamura: ‘As Trump tries to take away everything I love, it’s never been clearer that writing matters’

  • Author Kaliane Bradley, Walthamstow Wetlands, London, for Books Q&amp;A, New Review, 04/04/2025 Sophia Evans for The Observer

    Interview
    Kaliane Bradley: ‘I dreaded the book going to people I know’

    The author of bestseller The Ministry of Time on how lockdown telly, Terry Pratchett and her Cambodian heritage shaped her Arctic time travel tale
  • A head-shot of Oisín Fagan, who's leaning against a fence.

    Interview
    Novelist Oisín Fagan: ‘I was at the altar of literature and had its fire in me’

    The Irish author on his new ‘violent seafaring epic’, his appetite for body horror and living his entire life book-first
  • Neige Sinno in Guéthary, on the Basque coast in France.

    Interview
    ‘The anger became bigger than shame’: the writer whose memoir of child abuse has taken France by storm

  • Philippe Sands

    Interview
    ‘The law is another form of storytelling’: Philippe Sands in conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez

  • Danish writer Solvej Balle.

    Interview
    ‘How can one day be so voluminous?’: the Danish author who has written her own version of Groundhog Day

  • Hallie Rubenhold.

    Interview
    The Five author Hallie Rubenhold: ‘I really hate true crime’

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Regulars

  • Anthony Horowitz.

    The books of my life
    Anthony Horowitz: ‘I’m too nervous to reread The Lord of the Rings – it might reveal how jaded I’ve become’

  • illustration of red and blue pill in blue in palms of big hands

    Big idea
    The big idea: will sci-fi end up destroying the world?

    Skewed interpretations of classic works are feeding the dark visions of tech moguls, from Musk to Thiel
  • Salman Rushdie.

    Audiobook of the week
    Knife by Salman Rushdie audiobook review – 27 seconds that changed everything

    The author recalls the attack that almost killed him in an honest, terrifying and life-affirming memoir
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You may have missed

  • ‘Acute and disturbing vision’ … portrait of a young Flannery O’Connor.

    Feature
    Flannery O’Connor at 100: should we still read her?

  • Joe Dunthorne … ‘I sensed my version of events coming under threat from facts.’

    Extract
    Did my Jewish great-grandfather make chemical weapons for the Nazis? Author Joe Dunthorne on a dark legacy

    Joe Dunthorne
  • austen novels

    Jane Austen
    ‘Much darker than Pride and Prejudice!’: authors pick their favourite Jane Austen novel

  • Jesse Eisenberg and Claire Danes in Fleishman Is in Trouble

    Feature
    Judgy kids, road-trips and ‘epic scenes of female masturbation’: welcome to the new midlife crisis novel

    Benjamin Markovits
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