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Booker Prize 2025 shortlist revealed: which six books are Sarah Jessica Parker approved?

The 13 books of the ‘Booker dozen’ has been winnowed down to just six novels — all from very established authors but only one Brit

Evening Standard

Kiran Desai among top contenders for 2025 Booker Prize with first novel in 2 decades

Desai last won the Booker in 2006 with her novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’

The Independent UK

‘Brilliantly human’: Kiran Desai and David Szalay make Booker prize shortlist

No debut novels are among the six finalists, with established authors including Ben Markovits and previously shortlisted Andrew Miller in the running

The Guardian - UK

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As a Booker prize judge I helped whittle 153 books down to a shortlist of six. Here’s why you should read them

Ben Markovits, David Szalay, Kiran Desai, Andrew Miller, Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura’s books will all take you on enthralling journeys

The Guardian - UK

Booker Prize shortlist 2025: Six ‘brilliantly written and brilliantly human’ stories

Shortlisted authors are examining ‘individuals trying to live with other people’

The Independent UK

Antony Maitland obituary

Illustrator and writer whose intricate drawings helped shape the look of children’s novels of the 60s and 70s

The Guardian - UK

David Hirst obituary

The Guardian’s Middle East correspondent for four decades whose articles were key to understanding the region’s turmoil

The Guardian - UK

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Emma at the Rose Theatre: Jane Austen will be laughing in her grave

3/5 Ava Pickett’s new adaptation is not for purists, but it is very funny

Evening Standard

Queen Elizabeth asked doctors to 'keep her alive' for special royal milestone, claims former royal butler

Paul Burrell has alleged in his memoir that the late Queen really wanted to see a key moment come to pass

Woman & Home

Mona Awad Has a Thing for "Dark Enchantment" Books—Here’s What She's Reading

The 'We Love You, Bunny' author has a thing for books about "dark enchantment."

Marie Claire

16 Magical, Must-Read Books About Witches and Witchcraft

Your spooky season reading list has arrived.

Marie Claire

Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood review – long Covid from the inside

The cult author’s autofictional follow-up to No One Is Talking About This is the story of a breakdown

The Guardian - UK

Woody Allen: What’s With Baum? review – An incorrigibly button-pushing story of male lechery

2/5 The filmmaker touches on forbidden desire and sexual scandal in his too-slight debut novel

The Independent UK

Biden response to Gaza was "inadequate," Harris says in book

It's part of Harris' larger effort in the book to distance herself from Biden after not doing so during last year's campaign.

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The Guardian - UK

‘A resistance to AI’: The author inviting readers to contribute to a mass memoir

Richard Beard says he’s got ‘better at telling the truth’ by arranging his life story on a grid – and invites others to do the same

The Guardian - UK

Young Finns snub their mother tongue by reading in English

Publishers fear for the future of translated literature as sales of foreign language books rise

The Independent UK

West Point is violating the First Amendment with a crackdown on professors, lawsuit says

A law professor at West Point has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Military Academy, saying it violates the First Amendment by banning professors' opinions in the classroom and restricting certain books and courses

The Guardian - UK

107 Days by Kamala Harris review – no closure, no hope

The former presidential candidate sticks to the script in a memoir that will only cause further bad blood

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The Independent UK

Literary mystery meets dystopian future in Ian McEwan's 'What We Can Know'

Ian McEwan has released his 19th novel which is titled “What We Can Know.”

Marie Claire

Demna Just Unveiled His First Gucci Collection—and This Is What You Need to Know

The creative director confirms his Gucciness.

Marie Claire

Why I Left My Own Billion-Dollar Brand

After years spent telling women they’re beautiful as they are, I couldn’t back skin-whitening and contouring products, Bobbi Brown writes.

Marie Claire

Princess Diana Was Such an "Americanophile" That She "Shopped at JCPenney"

Even royals love a good bargain.

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re exhausted – but not from doing too much’: can this woman help us survive the age of distraction?

With three jobs, three children and a labradoodle, the behavioural scientist Zelana Montminy knows a lot about being pulled in all directions. What can her new book about finding focus teach the rest of us?

Marie Claire

Royal Butler Claims Buckingham Palace Became Known as "Gin Palace" With Staff "Sneaking Alcohol Around" in Electric Kettles

"Gallons of gin were consumed every week—some legitimately, some not."

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Priscilla Presley Opens Up About Lisa Marie’s Complicated Marriage To Michael Jackson

“I knew in my bones that Michael wasn’t marrying Lisa Marie; he was marrying the Presley dynasty.”

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