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Women’s prize for fiction 2024: six expert reviews of the shortlisted books

The Women’s prize for fiction has been championing women writers since it launched in 1996. It is one of the most influential and popular literary prizes in world with writers like Zadie Smith and Andrea Levy, among its past winners.

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Dionne Brown teases playing Queenie Jenkins in the adaptation of the best-selling novel

Queenie star Dionne Brown on playing the South London millennial who captured the hearts of readers and became a literary phenomenon

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Cairn by Kathleen Jamie review – a wry SOS for the world

The Scottish poet’s latest collection is a small marvel that shows an acute awareness of planetary and personal impermanence

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The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry review – fast and loose on the frontiers of America

The Irish novelist turns his hand to the western in an atmospheric tale of romantic runaways from a 1890s US mining town that has an epic feel despite its brevity

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Book festival activists are making absurd demands over Baillie Gifford

Insistence on investment purity misses the point and will only lead to a decline in arts sponsorship

The Guardian - UK

Viola’s Room review – Punchdrunk’s gothic tale of puzzling wonder

Helena Bonham Carter narrates as a bare-footed audience explore exquisite rooms in this unsettling, grief-soaked journey into the night

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The ES Shopping Shortlist: What to shop, see and know in June 2024

The hot-off-the-press launches and dazzling shopping newness to know this month

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Salman Rushdie to be subject of documentary inspired by memoir Knife

Alex Gibney-directed film, based on Rushdie’s memoir, will cover his physical and spiritual healing after 2022 attack

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Brutalist Plants: this pocket picture book is perfectly formed, but puts style over substance

To take the frictionless, scrolling pixels from Instagram and reproduce them in the physical world as a tactile, tablet-sized, small object of desire, is a curious concept. But the recently published book, Brutalist Plants, does just that, as its contents are derived from author Olivia Broome’s Instagram account.

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The nuclear volcano’s about to blow! Can Michael Crichton score an explosive hit from beyond the grave?

From Jurassic Park to Westworld, he was king of the sciency disaster novel. But Crichton died before finishing Eruption. Who could possibly complete it? Fellow thriller legend James Patterson explains why he took up the baton

The Guardian - UK

‘They’re a mystery’: inside the deadly world of serial killer truckers

A shocking new book sheds light on the many long-hauler killers in the US who operate close to many Americans yet remain dangerously undetected

The Guardian - US

A group of "dorky demon fighters" face the forces of darkness in Youth Group - a new horror comedy that's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina"

It's written by Jordan, Jesse, Go! co-host Jordan Morris

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Queenie on Channel 4 review: this adaptation of the hit novel still brings the magic

Candice Carty-Williams’ show has its flaws, but it really excels in its moments of gentle intimacy

Evening Standard

OPINION - Alan Edwards: I worked with David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, The Who and this is what I learnt

As a child I was a keen reader of adventure books, but I could never have imagined then that I’d write one, let alone be the central character.

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‘His greatness was matched by his kindness’: remembering John Burnside

Writers Andrew O’Hagan, Sarah Perry and more pay tribute to the celebrated Scottish poet, novelist and memoirist, who died last week aged 69

Evening Standard

OPINION - Dylan Jones: Fossil Free Books are acting like teenagers — leave Hay Festival alone

The Hay Festival finished last night. The previous week it was blackmailed into ditching one of its sponsors, the wealth management group Baillie Gifford. A climate divestment activist group, Fossil Free Books, asked writers attending Hay to de-platform themselves in protest at Baillie Gifford’s sponsorship, because it invests two per…

The Guardian - US

The reich stuff – what does Trump really have in common with Hitler?

Comparisons between the ex-president and the 20th-century Nazi leader are controversial but a new book says they resemble each other as political performance artists

The Independent UK

Charles Spencer says schoolmaster he accuses of abusing him as a boy lives near his home

Younger brother of late Princess Diana speaks at Hay Festival about memoir A Very Private School

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Poem of the week: Duty Surviving Self-Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This austere reflection on lost friendships was written in the poet’s later years as he fought opium addiction

Marie Claire

The hottest accessory this summer? A book

6 new books to satisfy your wanderlust

The Guardian - UK

All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield review – how to make an exhibition of yourself

The former best friend of convicted fraudster Inigo Philbrick turns the exciting world of art into a series of gauche boasts in this story of their career as dealers

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My First Book by Honor Levy; Brat: A Ghost Story by Gabriel Smith reviews – audacious darlings of the digital age

Pitch-dark cynicism meets a spooky coming-of-age story in these promising debuts by two ‘alt lit’ proteges

The Guardian - UK

Franz Kafka letter shows author’s anguished struggle with writer’s block

Letter to friend and publisher Albert Ehrenstein, to be auctioned in June, details struggle to write at time of tuberculosis diagnosis

The Guardian - UK

‘We need other logics for our approach to nature’: the woman uprooting colonialism in botany

From plant names to notions of native species, many aspects of the natural world are shaped by empire. We need to decolonise, says the author of a new book – but not all experts agree

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The US librarian who sued book ban harassers: ‘I decided to fight back’

After Amanda Jones got death threats for speaking out against censorship, she sued her attackers and wrote a memoir

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