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The Guardian » 12 hours ago
The Alex Rider author on being put off Dickens for a decade, why he reads poetry in the mornings, and how reading Sherlock Holmes made him want to be a crime writerMy earliest reading memory
I started with a comic: Valiant....
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The Guardian » 4 days ago
‘Follow your instincts’ has become a modern mantra. But what if they lead you astray? ‘What should I do?” Whether openly stated or implicit, this is the question a new client usually raises in their first therapy session. People come to see me for many reasons: relationsh...
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The Guardian » 4 days ago
Two enjoyable debut novels put fresh meat on Fitzgerald’s deathless classic – one a modern-day retelling in which Gatsby becomes a female influencer, another a pacy murder mystery in the vein of Agatha ChristieIt might seem unfathomable to us now, but F Scott Fitzgerald’s...
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The Guardian » 4 days ago
A breezy but ambiguous allegory arranges its symbols with appealing witDigging the Well On our plot between the river
and the railroad track,
there is a well. We discovered
it by chance — wee...
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The Guardian » 5 days ago
The Guardian journalist’s tender account of how music became a bridge between him and his autistic son, James, is full of wit and wisdomHalfway through Maybe I’m Amazed, there’s a photograph of John Harris’s son, James, with one of his heroes. James i...
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The Guardian » 5 days ago
Didier Eribon’s guilt and shame fuels an angry and eloquent meditation on our attitudes towards the elderly and the end of life“My mother,” writes Didier Eribon, “was unhappy her whole life.” Abandoned as a child, she started work at 14 as a house servant, later becoming ...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Three characters stuck in the past are given access to the future in the former Observer/Faber prize winner’s mordant and misanthropic sci-fi graphic novelPeople who enjoy science fiction love to imagine the future: time travel, spaceships, something wobbly with a green f...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
A terrific second novel from the British author of Assembly examines what it means to be truthful – and who really benefits when facts come to lightMiriam Leonard, AKA Lenny, one of a tight core of characters at the heart of Natasha Brown’s terrific second novel, would pr...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Behind many symbols of quintessentially British culture – from Picture Post to Pevsner’s guides – were refugees who fled Europe in the 1930s and 40sIn the early 1940s, the publisher Collins launched a series of books called Britain in Pictures – “brig...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Tensions sizzle alongside burgers in the hazy timelines and brisk prose of the French writer’s disorienting debutIn recent novels set in restaurants, the breakneck speed of the action hides darker elements at work. Stéphane Larue’s The Dishwasher foll...
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