Books
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Is Sarah J Maas the next JK Rowling?
The end of January, just before midnight. At a Barnes & Noble bookshop in New York, a woman with perfect…
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Beheaded by a jihadi Beatle – a mother’s true story
Hope and history never rhyme, and literature is humanity’s riposte to the tragedy of events. In Heart of Darkness, Conrad’s controversial…
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Dex and Emma forever: how One Day became the literary phenomenon of the Noughties
I can still remember my mum’s disclaimer as she put her copy of One Day on my sun lounger, the paperback’s orange cover slightly…
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‘It’s probably going to ruin me, isn’t it?’ Author Jennifer Belle on her shocking ‘Lolita in reverse’ novel
Jennifer Belle was once one of America’s most lauded new authors. She was barely 28 when, in 1996, her debut…
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Poet Andrew McMillan on mixing mining communities and drag queens in his debut novel Pity
It is mid-morning, the middle of the week, and Andrew McMillan is at work. Like all poets, even the really…
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Kiley Reid’s Come and Get it and the (cost of living on) campus novel
Every university seems to have one hall of residence that no one wants to live in. The one that looks like…
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The best non-fiction books to read in 2024
Sorry, but we’re about to make your reading pile for 2024 very big. From candid memoirs to provocative essays, little-told…
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Filthy rich and highly subversive – Agatha Christie was anything but a harmless old lady in a tweed suit
Do you feel that Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a bit of televisual homicide? Maybe a murder on the Orient…
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Filthy rich and highly subversive – Agatha Christie was anything but a harmless old lady in a tweed suit
Do you feel that Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a bit of televisual homicide? Maybe a murder on the Orient…
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The books we give as gifts
Forget socks. Leave the Next voucher. Put the Terry’s Chocolate Orange down. If chosen wisely, a book is the very…
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