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My Family and Other Rock Stars by Tiffany Murray review – Freddie Mercury, David Bowie and my mum

The British novelist’s first memoir is a sublime account of famed Welsh music studio Rockfield, where her indomitable mother ruled the kitchen in the 70s and rock’n’rollers were great fun – and infuriating

The Guardian - UK

The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya review – sharp generational shame game

A young female playwright publicly lampoons her novelist father in this astute tale of family differences

The Guardian - UK

‘Money pervades everything’: the psychotherapist delving into our deep anxiety about finances

Do you find it hard to budget or, conversely, difficult to spend? Vicky Reynal reveals what our financial choices reveal about our psyches – and what can be done to ease our money worries

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The Coast Road by Alan Murrin review – love and the limitations placed on women

The author’s accomplished debut boasts beautifully nuanced characterisation in its compassionate study of small-town life

The Guardian - UK

Modern motherhood is a major struggle

Salon spoke with a dozen moms to ask what motherhood is like today. Most said balance is “impossible to achieve"

Salon

No Going Back: Kristi Noem and other Trump veepstakes also-rans

The South Dakota governor’s book will be remembered as an utter disaster. Other VP hopefuls’ tomes are merely dispiriting

The Guardian - US

Paul Lynch: ‘When you win the Booker, you are told you won’t write for a year’

The Irish novelist on navigating success shortly after a cancer diagnosis and a marriage breakdown, the renaissance in Irish writing, and how his ‘tragic worldview’ fits the times

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‘They made it look so easy’: traditional craft of bookbinding rejuvenated for the TikTok age

Enthusiasts are customising their favourite works and being rewarded with wide social media following

The Guardian - UK

What kind of writer are you?

Discover the diverse motivations behind writing, from emotional expression to social activism, and the different types of writers involved.

The Hindu

You Love Cars? Buy This Book!

Friend of Motor1 and automotive writer Sam Smith just published his first book, "Smithology." Go buy 10 copies. You'll love it. Promise.

Motor1

Deborah Levy: ‘Writing and swimming help each other’

The novelist and memoirist on stamina and solitude, the influence of surrealist art on her work, and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s revelatory travel writing

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Daniel Handler, AKA Lemony Snicket, on his cultural highlights

The US children’s author and novelist on a sublime musical trio, how spices reinvigorated his cooking, an addictive ‘mid-19th century’ BBC panel show and being floored by a new jazz track

The Guardian - UK

Richard Rankin and Lucie Shorthouse on the comedy challenges of filming Rebus in Edinbrugh

Rebus stars Richard Rankin and Lucie Shorthouse reveal the funny reason filming in Edinburgh was sometimes tricky!

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The Ministry of Time author Kaliane Bradley: ‘It was just so much fun’

A nerdy literary parlour game that started in lockdown has turned into one of the most-hyped debuts of the year - soon to be a series on BBC1. Its author talks about how her obsession with a long-dead polar explorer helped her find a way to write about family trauma

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Morning After the Revolution review: a bad faith attack on ‘woke’

Nellie Bowles seeks simply to stoke ‘communal outrage’, whether over protesters, the unhoused or trans people

Evening Standard

Accessories! The hot silver watches for men and women — and affordable pearls to know

From the hot silver watches to the new maximalist jewellery mood sweeping runways, Victoria Moss has your accessory update

The Guardian - US

Say More review: Jen Psaki on Biden, Trump and how to make your point

White House press secretary turned MSNBC host offers advice, a little dish and barbed critiques of Republican predecessors

The Guardian - UK

Three Burials by Anders Lustgarten review – a madcap satire on the refugee crisis

A nurse battles to give a dead Somali refugee a dignified burial as the English police set out to retrieve his body and cover up their crime

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See your partner as an ally, not adversary: what I learned about modern relationships from writing the Intimate Details series

After trawling through 1,000-plus reader responses on fidelity, finances and family, Doosie Morris has made some critical findings on what makes a romance stick – and most of us are terrible at them

The Guardian - UK

Goldsmiths University to keep Black British literature course open

Exclusive: Reversal comes after backlash from students and writers including Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo

The Guardian - UK

From Dua Lipa’s book club to George Saunders’ Substack: a guide to the online books world

From BookTube to podcasts, newsletters and tweets, literature is finding ever-more new homes. Here are some you should definitely be browsing

The Guardian - UK

Dame Shirley Conran obituary

Bestselling author of Lace and Superwoman and women’s editor for the Daily Mail and the Observer

Evening Standard

'I can't get a job': comedian Ruby Wax says she is struggling for work in TV industry gone soft

Wax has interviewed everyone from Donald Trump to Imelda Marcos

The Guardian - UK

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard; A View from the Stars by Cixin Liu; Flowers from the Void by Gianni Washington; The Dark Side of the Sky by Francesco Dimitri; The Hungry Dark by Jen Williams; To the Stars and Back by various writers

The Guardian - UK

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin audiobook review – from the civil rights frontline

Law & Order’s Jesse L Martin narrates two powerful essays examining the Black experience in the US, the first in a series marking the author’s centenary year

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