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Love endures all, including slavery and the pandemic. I wanted to show how

In early 2020, separated from my family and friends during the pandemic, I made up my mind to write a love story

The Guardian - US · May 3, 2025

Elif Shafak: ‘As a novelist in Turkey, you can find yourself put on trial, prosecuted... almost digitally lynched’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: Nearly two decades after being put on trial for ‘insulting Turkishness’, Shafak has become one of the UK’s most popular authors. Ahead of her appearance at the Hay Festival, she speaks with Annabel Nugent about her latest novel and Turkey’s fraught politics

The Independent UK · May 3, 2025

As the curtain falls on Gilead, is The Handmaid’s Tale too close to the bone?

4/5 The show’s bleak and uncompromising final chapter is yet another gripping demonstration of how fear metastasises into fascism

The Independent UK · May 3, 2025

The Winds of Winter release date speculation, plot, and everything else we know about George R.R. Martin's new book

Your complete guide to The Winds of Winter, the next book in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series

Total Film · May 2, 2025

‘Full-circle moment’: Candice Carty-Williams joins judging panel as 4thWrite prize opens for entries

The author who founded the short story competition will be one of judges this year as the search begins for new writers of colour

The Guardian - UK · May 2, 2025

‘A natural storyteller’: Jane Gardam remembered by Tessa Hadley

The author of Late in the Day pays tribute to the exuberantly inventive Yorkshire-born novelist who has died aged 96

The Guardian - UK · May 2, 2025

Margaret Drabble: ‘Our family had a passion for Georgette Heyer’

The author on re-reading The Mill on the Floss, discovering the eccentric genius of Georges Perec and the comforts of Lee Child

The Guardian - UK · May 2, 2025

Red Pockets by Alice Mah review – finding hope amid the climate crisis

A professor’s quest to make sense of her eco-anxiety takes her from her ancestral village in China to Cop 26 and beyond

The Guardian - UK · May 2, 2025

Torte law: bakers are in a food fight over allegations of plagiarism – but who really owns a recipe?

Bestselling Australian cookbook author Brooke Bellamy is under fire from Nagi Maehashi and Sally McKenney for copying recipes, allegations she denies. In a precise art like baking, how close is too close?

The Guardian - AU · May 2, 2025

Prominent pastor notified books loaned to African American museum may be returned amid review

A prominent pastor and veteran of the Civil Rights Movement says he was told items he had loaned to the Smithsonian Institution would be under review for whether they should remain on display at the institution

The Independent UK · May 2, 2025