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World Book Day: Why schools are asking pupils not to wear costumes of their favourite characters

Schools have adopted a more flexible approach in response to the cost-of-living crisis and the growing pressure on parents to create impressive costumes

Evening Standard

Failure to give basic facts on Southport killer led to ‘dangerous fictions’

Terror watchdog Jonathan Hall KC said the disinformation could have been ‘far more’ prejudicial to Axel Rudakubana’s trial than the true facts.

Evening Standard

Peter Wolf on Faye Dunaway, David Lynch and Bob Dylan: ‘My mission was to be an observer’

The frontman of the J Geils Band has had an extraordinary life, living and working with celebrities along the way, detailed in a fascinating new book

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The Antidote by Karen Russell review – a magical realist Dust Bowl tale

A ‘prairie witch’ who can remove unwanted memories is at the centre of this 1930s-set parable about climate refugees, amnesia and the ethnic cleansing of Native peoples

The Guardian - UK

Style and substance combine in mesmerising historical drama The Leopard

4/5 This glossy, big-budget Italian origin story paints a family story in broad strokes and has plenty of modern resonance.

The Independent UK

Oscar's Book Prize: Author and CBeebies presenter team up to choose best UK picture book of the year

A kids TV favourite will team up with a children’s author to choose the best UK picture book of the year.

Evening Standard

Romance publisher yanks book after controversy over pro-Elon Musk lines in novel

EXCLUSIVE: Author Sophie Lark apologized for ‘hurtful’ lines in forthcoming book

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World Book Day: top tips for last-minute costumes

From Halloween-inspired Harry Potters to toilet roll-wrapped Mr Bumps, writers and booksellers share their ideas for kitting out your child for WBD at the 11th hour

The Guardian - UK

Kit de Waal to headline new festival celebrating women writers over 50

Forthwrite, which takes place over two days this month, aims to dispel stereotypes around older women

The Guardian - UK

Unseen Harper Lee stories set in New York and Alabama to be published

Eight unpublished stories by the To Kill a Mockingbird author will be issued later this year as The Land of Sweet Forever

The Guardian - UK

‘Let’s dig into the archives and tell the truth’: interrogating Yale’s connections to slavery

Pulitzer prize winner David Blight follows his biography of Frederick Douglass with a deep dive into his university’s dark past

The Guardian - US

New graphic novel Magda, Intergalactic Chef puts a sci-fi twist on The Great British Bake Off

The comic even comes with recipes

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The National (Scotland)

‘The blue blues have never left us’: a new book examines the color’s spanning ties to Black culture

Imani Perry’s Black in Blues traces the ways blue is woven through Black history, from Miles Davis to Toni Morrison

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Picture books for children – reviews

Laughter abounds with tales of mini beasts at bedtime, a box filled with babbling babies and an odd-couple comedy from Julia Donaldson

The Guardian - UK

Women’s prize for fiction reveals longlist ‘overflowing with compelling stories’

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Miranda July and Elizabeth Strout are among the 16 writers in contention for the £30,000 prize

The Independent UK

Conflict, imperialism, escape and the rise of Big Tech feature in Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 longlist

Books by renowned authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are among the works selected by a panel of expert judges, along with nine debut writers

The Guardian - UK

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy review – incurable sadness if bravely borne

Colm Tóibín introduces this welcome reprint of the US author and critic’s poignant account of orphanhood, first published in 1957

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The Guardian - UK

The Chimamanda effect: Nigerians’ delight at first novel in a decade from their beloved daughter

‘Rock star’ author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count has been hotly anticipated by her fans

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February

Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

The Rainbow review – fluid female-centric tale of emancipation across the decades

Nicola Werenowska’s enterprising adaptation tackles DH Lawrence’s novel back to front

The Guardian - UK

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney review – the women behind the woman

An erudite exploration of the female writers who influenced the celebrated 19th-century author brings to light neglected or forgotten but often captivating literature

The Guardian - UK

Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home review – the wonder of the wireless revolution

Beaty Rubens’s study of the impact of early radio broadcasts in Britain is full of fascinating and often poignant detail

The Guardian - UK

The Cafe With No Name by Robert Seethaler review – a cup of tea and a slice of life

A humble neighbourhood eatery in Vienna is the hub for a moving exploration of everyday urban existence in a new novel by the International Booker-shortlisted Austrian author

The Guardian - AU

Madeleine Watts: ‘Climate change should be in everyone’s writing right now’

In her second novel Elegy, Southwest, the Australian author writes into the climate crisis from a millennial perspective with a mixed sense of melancholy and hope

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