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A sweeping biography of Robert McNamara wins $50,000 book prize

A deep and wide-ranging biography of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has won a $50,000 prize

The Independent UK

Why do we need International Women’s Day? Apart from misogyny and Christian nationalism, you mean?

I should probably be fuming about the way that companies try to cash in on IWD. But there are so many vile opinions to worry about instead, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Simon & Schuster names former Amazon executive Greg Greeley as CEO, succeeding Jonathan Karp

Simon & Schuster has named a former Amazon

The Independent UK

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Gisèle Pelicot and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe among Hay Festival 2026 speakers

The line-up for this year’s festival includes Emma Thompson, Malala Yousafzai, Ian McEwan and other prominent authors and figures

The Guardian - UK

Beckhams 'won’t be happy' as Brooklyn’s ex reportedly asked to reveal all in new book

The model dated the eldest son of the Beckhams between 2018 and 2019

Evening Standard

Bridgerton Season 5 Is About Who? Eloise, Another Francesca Arc Anticipated

Netflix's Bridgerton enters early production for Season 5, focusing on Francesca Bridgerton's romantic journey, inspired by Julia Quinn's novel 'When He Was Wicked'.

International Business Times UK

Love Magic Power Danger Bliss by Paul Morley review – Yoko Ono before the Beatles

A vivid celebration of the artist covers her childhood and breakthrough in New York – while sidelining ‘that other business’

The Guardian - UK

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Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester review – a battle between millennials and boomers

There are sharply observed pleasures to be found in this black comedy of infidelity, revenge and intergenerational tension – but the plot is both implausible and predictable

The Guardian - UK

Rare items of Charles Dickens’ clothing to go on display in London

Exhibition includes linen shirt collar from when author suffered a fatal stroke along with other personal items

The Guardian - UK

Quiz books are the answer to falling non-fiction sales, data shows

2025 was the best year for quiz book sales since records began in 1998; while Bibles also proved popular

The Guardian - UK

Bible sales at their highest in almost three decades

The average cost of a book reached record levels in 2025

The Independent UK

Sarah Ferguson Is Allegedly Being "Snubbed" by Hollywood as No-One Wants to Be Accused of "Enabling Her" Following Epstein Scandal

"Her American dream now seems to have been killed off completely."

Marie Claire

Royal Biographer Reveals Why Princess Kate's Parents Initially Didn't Want Her to Attend the University of St Andrews With Prince William

"Carole and Michael were dead set against the idea..."

Marie Claire

Did George RR Martin Hint at a Surprise The Winds of Winter Release?

George R.R. Martin sparked new The Winds of Winter speculation after a line in the A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms finale sent fans searching for hidden meaning.

International Business Times UK

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I spoke to the writers behind the trippy new sci-fi novel 'Detour': 'Things don't need to be 100% correct, but they do have to be believable'

"If Neil deGrasse Tyson read this book, he would not be thrilled."

The Guardian - UK

Vladimir author Julia May Jonas: ‘We’re imprisoned by our obsessions’

As her debut novel becomes a Netflix series starring Rachel Weisz and Leo Woodall, the American author talks about comparisons with Lolita, moving on from #MeToo and problematic authors

The Guardian - UK

Plan to turn Irish borderlands into Unesco ‘region of literature’

Arts group proposes literary routes across 11 counties linked to writers from Jonathan Swift to Lisa McGee

The Guardian - UK

Crime and Punishment review – gripping portrait of Dostoevsky’s murderous antihero

Laurie Sansom’s bold decision to stage the literary classic with a cast of three pays off in parts thanks to compelling performances and an atmosphere of shadowy dread

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Woman & Home

This iconic King Charles photo 'signalled a change' - and would 'never' have happened in Queen Elizabeth's reign

Photographer Chris Jackson took this snap on Coronation Day and he thinks the King has approached his role 'differently' to his mother

Evening Standard

The Reservation: Read it for the delicious people, not the prose

It did feel cruel, and not a little unfair, to give up all hope of good prose as early as page four, but that’s where it happened. It was right there in capital letters: “IT’S GRISHAM DAY, PEOPLE.” As in John Grisham, whose looming visit to Aunt Orsa’s — the…

Cinemablend

Will Heated Rivalry Season 2 Stay Faithful To The Books? The Show's Creator Weighed In

In Jacob Tierney we trust.

Axios

Black-owned bookstores reach record numbers, but many still struggle

A new report shows the number has grown from just 54 in 2014 to more than 300 today.

The Guardian - AU

Captured by Islamic State, Amera began writing letters to her lost brother: ‘I wrote because I was scared, but also because I have hope’

Amera last saw Ali in 2014, the day IS arrived at their village in northern Iraq. Now living in Australia, she’s published years of unsent letters

The Times of India

'Shows people's desire to keep Jamaat out': Taslima Nasrin says BNP's Bangladesh poll landslide not due to party's 'popularity'

NEW DELHI: Author Taslima Nasrin, who has lived in exile since being forced to leave Bangladesh in 1994 over her novel "Lajja," said on Saturday that the sweeping victory of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in the recent elections reflects the public’s determination to prevent Islamist radicals from coming to…

The Guardian - UK

A Beautiful Loan by Mary Costello review – a profound exploration of the inner life

How are we to account for things that lie outside ordinary language? A woman’s emotions are precisely observed in a novel that brilliantly captures what it means to be human

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