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‘Relax your rules, let them pick what they want’: 10 page-turners to get kids reading

A report this month revealed fewer children than ever read for pleasure. From spooky tales to choose-your-own-adventure fantasy epics, here are 10 irresistible titles

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Novelist Maggie O’Farrell: ‘Children don’t just need butterflies and rainbows’

The Hamnet author talks about bringing her bestselling Shakespeare novel to the screen, working with Paul Mescal, and how her speech disorder inspired her latest children’s book

The Guardian - UK

Jon Ransom wins second Polari prize in two years with The Gallopers

The author has been named winner of the LGBTQ book prize for his second novel, having won the Polari first book award in 2023. This year’s debut award goes to Nicola Dinan, with Sarah Hagger-Holt taking the children’s prize

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Don Chapman obituary

Other lives: Theatre-loving feature writer who worked for the Oxford Mail for three decades

The Guardian - UK

‘Significant’ drop in racially minoritised characters in children’s books, report says

Share of children’s books featuring characters who fall into this category fell from 30% in 2022 to 17% in 2023, CLPE survey finds

The Guardian - UK

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

Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month

The Guardian - UK

‘Luminous’ memoir on art and life named book of the year at national awards

Author Laura Cummings received the top gong during a ceremony in Edinburgh’s Central Hall.

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Digested week: The era of the big night out is over. Finally a world remade to suit me

Young people are admitting that going out is awful. Plus, is it the end for Gwyneth Paltrow’s vaginal maintenance empire Goop?

The Guardian - UK

The best translated fiction – review roundup

Fathers and Fugitives by SJ Naudé; Untold Lessons by Maddalena Vaglio Tanet; A Man with No Title by Xavier Le Clerc; Command Performance by Jean Echenoz

The Guardian - UK

The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud audiobook review – portrait of a dangerous charmer

The charisma and brutality of the real-life Trinidadian gangster is seen through the eyes of four women who knew him

The Guardian - UK

Gillian Riley obituary

Historian who mastered the complexities of Italian food culture for the mammoth Oxford Companion to Italian Food

The Guardian - UK

Wilf Wikkerink – Book Depot CEO is a Visionary in Retail Innovation

Wilf Wikkerink's journey from humble beginnings on a dairy farm to becoming the CEO of Book Depot is an inspiring story of vision, perseverance, and a deep commitment to people-centric leadership. His career reflects a steadfast dedication to ...

USA Today Sports Media Group

'The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen' book honors the king of ‘60s sci-fi TV

A preview of Titan Books' "The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen"

Space

‘We miss her so much’: fans welcome Angela Merkel’s return to stage

Events in Berlin to promote former chancellor’s autobiography remind people of when ‘everything was more or less OK’

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The National (Scotland)

Nicola Sturgeon's 'favourite book' removed from Scottish school reading list

FORMER first minister Nicola Sturgeon’s favourite book has been removed from the Scottish Higher English reading list ...

The Guardian - AU

Of course the girls are reading horny fairy books. It’s cheaper than travel and more fun than therapy

We want dragons, rose gardens and strong characters who are absolutely getting laid but whose relationships with men don’t define them

The Guardian - AU

Leave the Girls Behind by Jacqueline Bublitz review – tale of murdered girls is gripping but flawed

In her second novel the crime author cannily uses the trappings of her genre to explore the ways society and the justice system fail women

The Conversation

Jan Smuts was a white supremacist. Nelson Mandela a black liberation hero. New book explores what they have in common

Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950) and Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) belonged to and were shaped by two different epochs in South Africa, yet left an indelible mark on its history. Sociologist Roger Southall has brought them together, so to speak, in a book, Smuts & Mandela, The Men Who Made South…

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Inverse

Netflix Just Quietly Released the Best Tech Noir Thriller of the Year

'The Madness' is a Hitchcockian thriller made for our day and age.

The Guardian - US

Trump Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth’s books foreground anti-Muslim rhetoric

Hegseth’s conspiracy theory- and falsehood-laden book American Crusade depicts Islam as historic enemy of west

The Guardian - UK

Thirst by Giles Foden review – adventures on the Skeleton Coast

An environmental scientist goes in search of a hidden aquifer, in an action-packed novel that reads like a movie pitch

Woman & Home

Michelle Obama starts every day with this one simple tip to inspire positivity - and it easily fits into our daily routine

Michelle Obama shares the simple way she starts every day, that makes her feel positive even if she's in a slump - and it doesn't take up too much time.

The Independent UK

Harry Potter: First edition JK Rowling book sells for £36,000

The ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ first edition was purchased for £10 in 1997

The Guardian - UK

Poor Artists by The White Pube review – how to make it in the art world

An aspiring young artist’s journey makes for a critique of the art world, in novel form

The Guardian - UK

‘Gentlemen shared their tattoos over dinner’: how our taste for tattoos started with the rich

Highly decorated skin is everywhere these days, but tattoos have a more elevated pedigree than you may think. A new book aims to make us think differently about Victorian aristocrats … and bank managers

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