Books
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After our reading of Endless Night and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, the author of Hercule Poirot’s authorised new adventures is joining now -
In his new book, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall set out to find a way to prevent following a night of drinking with a morning of feeling unwell
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The desire to share on Instagram is inspiring exciting new buildings around the world, but are these spectacular selfie sets what cities really need? -
The crime writer on learning to reread with Lolita, giving up on books and growing up with Dick and Jane -
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn is acclaimed by judges as ‘an absolutely brilliant story about the human capacity to endure’
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A hymn to the ingenuity, expertise and labour of the men who worked to make our seas safer -
Pac-Man, Space Invaders and lowlifes … a reissue of an addict’s guide to battle tactics in an age of nuclear paranoia -
Why we need to get out of our chairs and on our feet ... the modern, sedentary lifestyle is doing irreparable harm to our bodies
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This wild, genre-busting book set in small-town Australia takes in cancer, romance and kangaroo wrestling -
This eerie story of a returned soldier who receives a strange proposition is something close to a masterpiece -
Buried dreams and past betrayals erupt into the present moment, in a feverish vision of contemporary Chinese society
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Dazzled by language and swimming in dangerous waters … a woman struggles to make sense of a fluid world in this original, ambitious novel -
A second posthumous selection of stories by the author of A Manual for Cleaning Women shines with compassion and dark wit -
These spectacular stories offer a chilling vision of what lies in store for America
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A donkey’s ambitions to be an astronaut, a lion who wants to celebrate Christmas and a cicada facing up to bullies… -
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
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As a boy, he first fled a brutal war in Eritrea, then the oppression of Saudi Arabia. While the wounds of his early years may never heal, the writer says he has finally found a way of breaking the silence -
As he sets out to spill his secrets in an online masterclass, Brown talks about bad reviews, his habit of hanging upside down and the challenge of writing fiction in the age of Trump
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We talk to The Essex Serpent author Perry about the spine-tingling Melmoth and take Beowulf into the 21st century with Headley’s The Mere Wife
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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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Rose Tremain and Robin Robertson have criticised poets for abandoning ‘craft’ – but that argument silences the possibilities offered by new voices -
After our reading of Endless Night and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, the author of Hercule Poirot’s authorised new adventures is joining now
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What to read
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The crime writer on learning to reread with Lolita, giving up on books and growing up with Dick and Jane
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As Westminster coups simmer and Brexit negotiations come to a head, David Runciman chooses books that explore political division – and why we need it -
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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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