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Torrey Peters on life after a hit novel: ‘It had a very chilling effect on my writing’

Author of Detransition, Baby found success and pushback she never anticipated and now returns with a provocative collection of stories

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Once the Deed Is Done by Rachel Seiffert review – mystery in the aftermath of the Third Reich

This fine novel investigates the fate of displaced people in the hazardous, dirty backwash of the second world war

The Guardian - UK

Checking out early: who is going to die in this season of The White Lotus?

The third season of Mike White’s delicious resort-set comedy drama has teased yet another murder but we don’t yet know the whos or the whys

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‘Heinous amounts of butter and cheese!’ – Poppy O’Toole’s new cookbook is a spud-fuelled fever dream

Dubbed the ‘High Priestess of Potato’ by Nigella Lawson, Poppy O’Toole has built a career on her love of spuds. Now, with ‘The Potato Book’, the TikTok star is taking her obsession to decadent new heights – with a little help from an outrageous amount of butter, says Ella Walker

The Independent UK

‘Detransition Baby’ author Torrey Peters: ‘Being trans is a particular constellation of feelings that we all have’

INTERVIEW : The Women’s Prize-nominated author Torrey Peters speaks to Hannah Ewens about horny lumberjacks, creating work for a dark political future in the US and why she won’t stop writing from the trans female perspective

The Independent UK

Israeli police raid Palestinian bookshop in East Jerusalem twice in a month

Books about Banksy and by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé were removed, and one of the owners detained

The Guardian - UK

Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has a new update on The Winds of Winter: "I wish it would come faster"

The book was meant to be published in 2016

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Lauren Child in running for repeat Carnegie medal after 25 years

Former children’s laureate joins shortlists for prestigious children’s book prizes that ‘highlight the diversity and high quality’ in British work

The Guardian - UK

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new book Dream Count explores love in all its complicated messiness

Award-winning Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel Dream Count has landed. It’s been over a decade since Adichie published her previous novel, Americanah, following on global successes for Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus.

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All you need to know about London Book Fair 2025 as thousands head to Kensington for annual event

Essential trade fair returns for 2025 with events and seminars

Evening Standard

Hay Festival 2025: ‘Carnival of ideas’ returns with new events programme

Annual literary event has become a prominent occasion in British culture and boasts a star-studded lineup with over 600 events

The Independent UK

William S Burroughs’s art: ‘He said, I killed the only woman I loved. Then broke down sobbing’

Notorious for his drug-fuelled literary experiments and the fact that he shot his partner, beat writer Burroughs also made art inspired by the climate crisis

The Guardian - UK

The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits review – a triumphant twist on the great American road novel

Fleeing a failing marriage and culture war battles, a man drives away from the wreckage of his past

The Guardian - UK

Carrion Crow by Heather Parry review – a stomach-clenching contender for awards

A woman is confined to the attic by her mother in a thrillingly told novel that revels in squalor

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Natasha Brown on her razor-sharp satire Universality: ‘There was absolutely a lot of cringe’

INTERVIEW: The author, who shot to prominence with her 2021 debut novel ‘Assembly’, speaks to Katie Rosseinsky about writing habits, the future, and her button-pushing new book

The Conversation

Three memorable ways the COVID pandemic shaped Black music – five years on

Five years ago, at the start of 2020, I was looking forward to the publication of my book, Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City and eagerly anticipating a long-awaited holiday to Jamaica.

The Guardian - UK

Joseph Wambaugh obituary

Bestselling crime writer whose work drew on his own experience as an LAPD detective

The Conversation

Athol Fugard: the great South African playwright who captured what it means to be human

I was shocked to learn that the famous South African writer Athol Fugard had passed away. I had known his age to be 92 but somehow I never expected him to die. He was always a survivor.

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Long live Joyce Carol Oates’ Twitter account: the only pure space left on this hell site

The 86-year-old author’s social feed might be her greatest contribution to literature – with philosophical musings on everything from US politics to an infected foot

The Guardian - UK

Athol Fugard was a dreamer, listener and master storyteller – on stage and at home

The South African writer, who has died aged 92, was grateful for his extraordinary life and wrote out of love rather than anger

The Guardian - UK

Cry When the Baby Cries by Becky Barnicoat review – the black and white truth about motherhood

Barnicoat’s memoir of early parenthood is funny, unflinching and a welcome corrective to the ceaseless pressures new mums face from social media

The Guardian - UK

Two slaps in the face from the Europeans

The Guardian - UK

A Town Without Time by Gay Talese review – New York by an old master

The colour and detail in this collection of nonfiction by the grandfather of New Journalism brings the city to gripping, dazzling life

Evening Standard

Israeli ambassador attacks London School of Economics over Hamas ‘propaganda’ book launch

Tzipi Hotovely claims students could be influenced by author’s whitewashing of Hamas’s October 7 attacks

The Guardian - UK

The Mouthless Dead by Anthony Quinn review – murder most unsolvable

The author’s haunting and highly readable fictionalisation of a high-profile killing in prewar Liverpool is rich in legal and procedural detail

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