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‘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.

Evening Standard · Nov 29, 2024

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 · Nov 29, 2024

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 · Nov 29, 2024

‘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’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 28, 2024

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 National (Scotland) · Nov 28, 2024

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 · Nov 28, 2024

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 Guardian - AU · Nov 28, 2024

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…

The Conversation · Nov 28, 2024

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

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

Inverse · Nov 28, 2024

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 - US · Nov 28, 2024