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Bernard Kops obituary

Playwright best known for his signature early works The Hamlet of Stepney Green and Enter Solly Gold

The Guardian - UK

Practice; Time and Tide; For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain – review

An Oxford student’s hopes and fantasies are slowly brought to life; a poetic study of the landscapes of Britain; and a remarkable novel about two 15th-century women

The Guardian - UK

Clear by Carys Davies review – compelling Scots historical drama

A minister learns to communicate with the only inhabitant of his remote new island home in this memorable novel

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Photographs lift the lid on Japan's underground 1950s tattoo scene

Takagi Akimitsu, one of the most prolific and well-known crime novelists of 20th century Japan, was also a brilliant photographer. A French book depicting his photos from 1950s Tokyo was recently on display at the International Tattoo Fair in Paris.

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Meet Me at the Surface by Jodie Matthews review – powerful forces in the Cornish wilds

A strange and beautiful novel from a first-time author who skilfully wields mystery and unease

The Guardian - UK

Barcelona by Mary Costello review – potent snapshots of solitary confinement

The Irish author’s second volume of stories is written with an unsparing precision that is both affecting and uncomfortable

The Guardian - UK

The Washington Book review: Carlos Lozada on Trump and other targets

The New York Times critic won a Pulitzer for a reason – he knows better than anyone how to read the US political scene

The Guardian - US

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‘Apparatrum’ is a book exploring the craft of synthesist and inventor Love Hultén

‘Apparatrum’ charts the life and work of Swedish craftsman Love Hultén – you’ll have to move fast to secure the limited-edition version

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Using books as interior design? It’s a trend with a tale

The appeal of bookshelf wealth and its ensuing outrage tells us something uncomfortable about our culture

The Guardian - UK

Michael Donkor: ‘Representation feels more nuanced to me now’

The teacher turned novelist on building a good yarn, leaving London for Lisbon, and what his former pupils might think of his sex scenes

The Guardian - UK

‘Mrs Sherlock Holmes’ and the other real female sleuths who were written out of history

An opera diva, a queen of surveillance and Selfridges’ ‘secret service’ head were among the women who rivalled male private eyes and whose stories are told in a new book

The Guardian - UK

‘At 80, I still have a lot of anger’: American poet Nikki Giovanni

The activist and poet Nikki Giovanni talks about fighting racial segregation, dealing with mobsters – and why her sense of outrage is undiminished

The Guardian - UK

The Book of Love by Kelly Link review – a magical debut of life after life

In the celebrated short-story writer’s first novel, three resurrected teenagers must use magic to determine their fates

The Guardian - UK

A Ukrainian soldier in France speaks about writing and recovery

Ahead of the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, Ukrainian soldier and author Oleksandr “Teren” Budko spoke to FRANCE 24 about his path to recovery after losing both legs, his approach to writing and his patriotism.

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Anuja Chauhan on The Fast and the Dead: ‘I love the energy and intimacy of bazaars’

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Exploring Emma Watson's Top 10 Book Recommendations

Discover empowering literature exploring themes of identity, resilience, and social change in a diverse selection of books.

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: supercommunicator secrets, the decline of Australian rugby, and the film that broke British cinema

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

The Guardian - UK

William Blake’s Universe review – polymath’s paintings are outclassed by the Germans

A wide-ranging exhibition on the English mystic makes unfortunate comparisons with his European contemporaries who, it turns out, are the far superior Romantics

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‘There’s a double layer of nostalgia’: David Nicholls on One Day returning to the book charts

The Netflix adaptation starring Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod has catapulted the novelist’s romcom back into the bestsellers, 15 years after it was first published

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The Ministry of Time: everything we know

The Ministry of Time is an adaptation of a hotly-anticipated, genre-busting debut novel from Kaliane Bradley. Here's what we know about it right now.

GamesRadar

DC moves back to Wednesdays for new comic releases, and shares a gorgeous new Jim Lee cover for DC Versus Marvel

It's been a day of big reveals for DC

Evening Standard

OPINION - It's like One Day, 365 days a year: how keeping a diary helped me chart the rollercoaster of my 20s

July 15, 2019. The day after my first big breakup. According to the little dog-eared five-year diary I keep in the drawer next to my bed, I cycled into work in my biggest pair of sunglasses and my best friend met me on a bench with a packet of Sainsbury’s…

The Guardian - UK

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A show of inner strength; stone age family life; a brilliant guide to the brain; plus a whistlestop tour of queer history and more

The Guardian - UK

Wifedom by Anna Funder audiobook review – the first Mrs Orwell

The Australian writer explores the Nineteen Eighty-Four author’s treatment of women in an empathetic biography of his first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy

The Guardian - UK

Sigrid Nunez: ‘When I was growing up I wanted to be Dr Seuss’

The American author on the greatness of Tolstoy, the joy of Jamaica Kincaid and her insatiable appetite for fairytales

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