Books
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The Prix littéraire des collégiens has been halted after shortlisted authors condemned the ‘promotion of a multinational that harms bookstores’ -
Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
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After ‘exhaustive’ independent review, the prize has restored the author’s position as chairman of the board -
An unusually genial take on environmental damage gives a fresh spin to an old romantic image -
He was known as an expensive painter who captured high society, but a rare exhibition of Gainsborough’s works at the National Portrait Gallery reveals a poignant story of parental love
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A portrait of the novelist’s German wife explores the price paid for inspiring her man -
A superb account of an episode when the writers took over and it seemed all could be different. Then people were rounded up and shot -
This revealing memoir offers new insights into her upbringing on the south side of Chicago and the highs and lows of life with Barack Obama -
Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin’s case for understanding those people who want to ‘reassert cherished national identities’ claims to be myth-busting. But is it just flawed?
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These spectacular stories offer a chilling vision of what lies in store for America -
Burgess’s vision of medieval Europe is finally brought to life in this vivid pastiche -
Reactionaries and remoaners clash in a meditation on anger, loss and the passing of time featuring the characters from The Rotters’ Club
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A near-future story about a tech geek and a member of the Chinese elite takes in everything from quantum theory and revolution to shyness -
Newcomer by Keigo Higashino, Still Lives by Maria Hummel, The Stranger Diaries by Ellie Griffiths, A House of Ghosts by WC Ryan, Five Days of Fog by Anna Freeman and The Long Shadow be Celia Fremlin -
An inventive, immersive adventure vividly imagines a bleak near future shaped by sinister software
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A slender, but beautifully written evocation of the travails of writing and the deep sources of horror -
Sibling love drives this richly imagined adventure from the author of The Girl of Ink and Stars -
Moby-Dick is reimagined from the whale’s point of view in this lyrical, pacey tale
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The historian and author of The New Silk Roads on why we need to be less Eurocentric and his love of the great Russian novelists -
‘I remember the horror,’ says Baillie Gifford non-fiction prize-winner, who lived through the 1986 disaster -
The books interview: the Booker prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo on exasperating his readers, kindness in an unkind world and why he wrote an operatic libretto set at a Trump rally
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On a 6,000-mile bicycle journey along the Silk Road, the author explored the notion of wildness – the Earth’s and her own -
‘The two things I love most are novels and birds, and they’re both in trouble,’ says The Corrections author, one of the world’s most famous birdwatchers -
Incest, dragons, gore ... with fans awaiting the next book in his hit series, the novelist talks about fame, expectations – and the new 300-year history of the Targaryens in Westeros
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From Proust’s explorations of consciousness to Olivia Laing’s meditations on isolation, solitude is literature’s friend -
On PEN International’s Day of the Imprisoned Writer, the Indian novelist addresses photographer Shahidul Alam, charged with criticising Bangladesh on Facebook -
What to read
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The Canadian author on miracles, Kafka’s Metamorphosis and the life-changing philosophy of Andy Warhol -
Novelist Richard Powers, Nobel winner Wangari Maathai and Amazonian shaman Davi Kopenawa: five books about one of the most profound environmental changes of our time -
Autumn books 2018
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From Haruki Murakami to Michelle Obama, what to read this season
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How can a government exile its citizens without a trial? Why can people born in Britain be forced to leave? Kamila Shamsie explores how citizenship became a privilege, not a right -
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He started out filling the inkwells at a pulp magazine and ended up spawning an $11bn juggernaut. Our writer salutes a legend – and the musclebound crusaders who lit up his childhood -
This year’s Booker-winner Milkman has been criticised for being challenging. But are we confusing readability with literary value?
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