I love Kobo, but this folding e-reader might take my money next The mooInk V is the most book-like ereader I've ever seen Laptop · Apr 18, 2025
Brooke Boney: ‘It’s hard to see yourself in so much pain’ The Gamilaroi journalist and presenter on fame, reconciliation and how studying at Oxford changed the way she thinks about people in power The Guardian - AU · Apr 18, 2025
The Inseparables review – friendship falters in an impassioned Simone de Beauvoir adaptation Young adulthood takes its toll on a relationship between two young women in a tenderly realised production of de Beauvoir’s unpublished story from the 1950s The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2025
Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s unusual memoir maps his journey through the republic’s memoryscape Any attempt at recreating the contours of personal memory against the landscape of a nation’s historical journey is a daunting task for any chronicler. Even more challenging is the interweaving of an individual life into the tapestry of seven-and-a-half decades of national experience – a task that often calls for… Newslaundry · Apr 18, 2025
23 People Share The Most Hard-To-Believe Facts That Are Actually True Not everything that sounds right is true. And far from everything that sounds fake is false. Reality is—quite often—stranger than fiction. Bored Panda · Apr 18, 2025
‘A surfyte of cheese doth bringe payne’: Leeds University transcribes early book on cheese First known such ‘pamflyt’ in English has contemporary resonance, with advice on food intolerances and eating cheese after a meal The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2025
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup Fair Play by Louise Hegarty; All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman; This Is Not a Game by Kelly Mullen; The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie; Death and Other Occupations by Veronika Dapunt The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2025
Rosarita by Anita Desai audiobook review – a moving tale of memory and identity Narrator Meera Simhan draws out the dreamlike atmosphere of a young Indian woman’s quest through Mexico to find out more about her mother The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2025
6 Summer Books to Clear Your Mind (or Totally Escape It) From breakthrough habits to beach-worthy thrillers, these summer reads will help you refocus your mind or blissfully forget what day it is. Kiplinger · Apr 18, 2025
Chopping Onions on My Heart by Samantha Ellis review – can you save a culture? A woman tries to cling on to her parent’s Judeo-Arabic language – and the food, feeling and history that goes with it The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2025
Tributes paid to late historian who was ‘gifted leader of blind people’ Dr Fred Reid died on March 29 following a short illness. Evening Standard · Apr 17, 2025
The Guardian view on the meaning of life: Easter and the ultimate question Editorial: From Verdi to Douglas Adams, artists and writers have wrestled with why we are here. The Christian festival gives us pause to reflect The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2025
The Handmaid's Tale: Does June get Hannah back at the end of season 6? It's been June's endgame from the very first moments of The Handmaid's Tale, but will she be reunited with her daughter Hannah at the end of season 6? Woman & Home · Apr 17, 2025
John Loveday obituary Other lives: Headteacher who wrote a novel, a children’s book, several volumes of poetry and a memoir The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2025
The Guardian - AU · Apr 17, 2025 The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana review – a startling road trip as original as it is timely Two discontented young men embark on a journey that the reader quickly knows will be violent and doomed – and yet this novel remains almost unbearably tense
The Independent UK · Apr 17, 2025 Steve Coogan isn’t earnest enough for the dire political comedy The Penguin Lessons 2/5 Finally a film that asks ‘could an adorable flightless bird convince Alan Partridge to stand up to Argentina’s military dictatorship?’
Radio France Internationale · Apr 17, 2025 Book alleges Vatican knew of French priest's sexual abuse as early as 1955 The French church is to question the Vatican over revelations published Thursday that it knew about sexual abuse allegations against French charity icon Abbé Pierre as early as the 1950s.
The Independent UK · Apr 17, 2025 Filmmaker-music journalist Cameron Crowe has a memoir out this fall. It’s called ‘The Uncool' Cameron Crowe was planning to compile some of his old music interviews for a book when he realized he had a more personal story to tell
The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2025 Ghosts review – gasps and laughter greet this modern revamp of Ibsen’s shocker Gary Owen’s retelling changes the names and themes from the original, but retains the toxic power as a stellar cast negotiate the myriad secrets and suspicions
The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2025 The Next Day by Melinda French Gates review – Melinda on life, before and after Bill The philanthropist offers sensible advice about moving on and ditching perfectionism, but you get the impression she is struggling to take it herself
The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2025 Days of Light by Megan Hunter review – Bohemian rhapsody The privileged world of Bloomsbury group is vividly evoked in this novel of a life shaped by devastating loss
The Independent UK · Apr 17, 2025 George RR Martin calls long overdue Game of Thrones novel ‘the curse of my life’ ‘I have periods where I make progress and then other things divert my attention,’ admitted the author
The Independent UK · Apr 17, 2025 Lori Vallow Daybell plans to rest her case at Arizona trial without putting on witnesses, evidence Lori Vallow Daybell plans to rest her case at the Arizona trial where she is charged with conspiring to murder her estranged husband
The Independent UK · Apr 16, 2025 Bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford’s estate goes to auction reflecting ‘life of elegance, intellect, and artistry’ Rare items chronicle the internationally bestselling author’s rise from a Yorkshire newsroom to global stardom
Evening Standard · Apr 16, 2025 Items that reflect ‘elegance and artistry’ of Barbara Taylor Bradford go on sale The British-American author found fame with her debut novel, A Woman Of Substance, and went on to write 40 novels.