The Guardian » 1 week ago
Set during Liz Truss’s premiership, Coe’s multilayered novel is a mixture of whodunnit and political chronicle with a villain hiding in plain sightMy favourite joke in Jonathan Coe’s new novel is hardly a side-splitter, more what someone of my acquaintance would label “Ra...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
A dark fantasy in the vein of Alan Garner, a raw but hopeful tale of teenage alcoholism, and a cosy romcom with a neurodivergent angle are among this month’s selectionLiz Hyder won the older readers’ category in the Waterstones children’s book prize for her memorable debu...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The virtues of truth-telling are explored in this tale of one man’s need to confront and reveal his pastCharles Lamosway, the lone wolf narrator of Morgan Talty’s debut, is uncompromising in his opinions, not least when he turns his gaze towards his own situation...
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LA Times » 1 week ago
Lili Anolik turns a cache of letters between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz into a book about the unlikely friendship between two seminal L.A. writers before they went their separate ways....
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Royalties earned from The Golden Mole, published in the US this week as Vanishing Treasures, will be given towards counteracting ‘the election of a climate-change denier’British author Katherine Rundell will give all the royalties from one of her books to climate charitie...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The actor, writer and director mines his own backlog of unmade projects to create an exhilarating collection Rupert Everett prefaces his suite of short stories with an account of the showbiz ruse that provides the title, a grim little routine whereby American film produce...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
After reading more than 150 books over seven months, the judges voted unanimously in favour of Samantha Harvey’s Orbital – which pulled them as far away as pos...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Basic Liberty, a publishing imprint launched in the wake of Trump’s election win, will be helmed by Thomas Spence, an editor associated with Project 2025 thinktank The Heritage FoundationStaff are protesting against a new US imprint of global publisher Hachette Book Group...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The journalist and author of Hollywood’s Eve makes no pretence of impartiality as she charts the difficult relationship between two chroniclers of CaliforniaJournalist Lili Anolik’s latest book is a “provocation”, a dual biography of the two friends who ...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
A chronicle of the largest criminal case in French history from a master of the genreIn the early evening of 12 November 2015, three cars left Charleroi in Belgium, arriving a few hours later at a rented house in the northern suburbs of Paris. The occupants of the cars – ...
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