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 · Mar 5, 2025
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 · Mar 4, 2025
Romance publisher yanks book after controversy over pro-Elon Musk lines in novel EXCLUSIVE: Author Sophie Lark apologized for ‘hurtful’ lines in forthcoming book The Independent UK · Mar 4, 2025
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 · Mar 4, 2025
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 · Mar 4, 2025
Unseen Harper Lee stories set in New York and Alabama to be published Eight unpublished stories by the To Kill a Mockingbird author will be issued later this year as The Land of Sweet Forever The Guardian - UK · Mar 4, 2025
‘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 · Mar 4, 2025
New graphic novel Magda, Intergalactic Chef puts a sci-fi twist on The Great British Bake Off The comic even comes with recipes GamesRadar · Mar 4, 2025
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‘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 The Guardian - US · Mar 4, 2025
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 · Mar 4, 2025
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 Guardian - UK · Mar 4, 2025
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 Independent UK · Mar 4, 2025
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 The Guardian - UK · Mar 4, 2025
The Guardian - UK · Mar 4, 2025 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 · Mar 3, 2025 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 · Mar 3, 2025 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 · Mar 3, 2025 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 · Mar 2, 2025 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 · Mar 2, 2025 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 · Mar 2, 2025 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
The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2025 Soft Core by Brittany Newell review – highly strung strippers and cranky madams The writer’s impressive second novel about an erotic dancer and newbie dominatrix straddles thriller and satire in its depiction of desire and longing
Evening Standard · Mar 2, 2025 OPINION - As the Oscars return, it's time we faced the real truth about prizes If you run with the pack, you need not bark but wag your tail you must. Russian proverb. For 23 years, I was literary editor, and later also film critic, of the London Evening Standard. A dreamy job — getting paid well to read books and watch movies and then…
The Guardian - US · Mar 2, 2025 All or Nothing review: Michael Wolff details Trump’s bilious re-election campaign The president’s least favorite biographer again exposes the grotesque pettiness of Trump as he willed his way back to power
The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2025 Dark Like Under by Alice Chadwick review – the kids aren’t all right Against a backdrop of Thatcher and the Falklands, this sharp debut punctures the facade of life at a middle-England grammar school