The Latest Breaking News on Books

Letting children rule is ruining marriages says parenting guru Gina Ford

Gina Ford, 71, claims that many parents focus so intensely on making everything perfect for their children that they neglect their own well-being

Evening Standard · Nov 9, 2025

Stranger Things’ The Duffer Brothers Confirm Season 5 ‘Really Is The End’ Of The Hawkins Crew’s Story, And I Appreciate Why They’re Moving On

They said what they said.

Cinemablend · Nov 9, 2025

Prince Harry and Meghan's signal early on they were moving 'away from royal norms'

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex ended up stepping back as working royals in 2020 but this subtle sign came a year before

Woman & Home · Nov 9, 2025

Novels I haven’t finished reading are piling up by my bedside. What if that’s a good thing?

Authors are sounding warnings about the length of the modern attention span, but my series of abandonments is a sign of something else, says author Hanna Thomas Uose

The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2025

‘They’re not wolves – they’re sheep’: the psychiatrist who spent decades meeting and studying lone-actor mass killers

Paul E Mullen has had a front-row seat to the men behind some of the worst public massacres. He says it’s possible to ‘disrupt the script’ for future violence

The Guardian - AU · Nov 8, 2025

King Charles 'revisited' key issue with William after diagnosis to 'drive his point home'

In The Windsor Legacy, royal author Robert Jobson claims that the Prince of Wales's hobby used to worry his grandmother too

Woman & Home · Nov 8, 2025

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein Is A Little Different Than Expected, But Nails An Important Theme

Frankenstein gets the book's essence right.

Cinemablend · Nov 8, 2025

‘For the women who gave birth in the dark’: a portrait of motherhood in Gaza

Diana Shams wrote a book because ‘no one explains how to carry your baby through fire, hunger and fear – and still sing to her at bedtime’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2025

Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood: Fiercely funny tales from a literary mafia don

The Canadian author gets to show her funny side — and settle scores with those who wronged her

Evening Standard · Nov 8, 2025

Olivia Laing on writing their second novel The Silver Book: ‘It was one of those eerie experiences that happens once in a lifetime’

INTERVIEW: Few living writers have had as impressive a career in non-fiction as this British author – but now they’re leaving it all behind. Laing speaks to Hannah Ewens about turning to fiction, creativity and their political queer romance novel, The Silver Book

The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2025