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The Devils by Joe Abercrombie; The Incandescent by Emily Tesh; Land of Hope by Cate Baum; A Line You Have Traced by Roisin Dunnett

The Guardian - UK · May 9, 2025

Gunk by Saba Sams review – boozy nights and baby love

The Send Nudes author’s follow-up conveys a profound message about the insufficiency of the nuclear family

The Guardian - UK · May 9, 2025

The boom in health memoirs and what they can tell us about being human

IN FOCUS: Nick Duerden speaks to the writers who’ve spilled their vulnerabilities onto the page, and asks why readers are flocking to books about the spirit of survival

The Independent UK · May 9, 2025

Who Is Casey Means? Influencer Is Trump Pick For New Surgeon General - Why Is She Controversial?

Questions arise over her lack of traditional public health experience and her views on medicine and nutrition

International Business Times UK · May 8, 2025

As her second book, Live To Eat, hits shelves: Em The Nutritionist shares the 7 life lessons she swears by

Bookmark these for later.

Marie Claire · May 8, 2025

Ginseng Roots by Craig Thompson review – a genre-defying graphic novel about class, religion and globalisation

Can you tell the American story via ginseng? Thompson’s funny, moving and exquisitely drawn work has a go

The Guardian - UK · May 8, 2025

Graydon Carter's London guide: the editor and author eats at Maison François and loves Anderson & Sheppard

The author longs for the return of the Draycott, would take a date along the Embankment, and wishes you could still smoke indoors

Evening Standard · May 8, 2025

NY Times reporter filed HR complaint because editor threatened to ‘kill’ him over story length

Sources told The Independent that Times staffers were ‘baffled’ that reporter Rob Copeland filed an HR complaint because it was obvious that editor Ellen Pollock was joking about the so-called ‘death threat’

The Independent UK · May 7, 2025

The Guardian view on bias in medical research: disregard for women’s health belongs in the past

Editorial: It is shocking that while illnesses specific to men are studied, those affecting women are ignored

The Guardian - UK · May 7, 2025

Book prize follows copycat claims against cupcake queen

A cookbook author who claims her recipes were copied by a cupcake aficionado has won a prestigious publishing industry award for a second time.

AAP · May 7, 2025