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Emerald Fennell’s lust-fuelled take on Emily Brontë’s novel has cued a hot flush of merchandise ranging from themed snacks to thongs. What exactly are they buying into?

Another day, another relationship nearly ended by a $30 bottle of hair care. One woman logged onto TikTok expecting sympathy after catching her boyfriend absolutely mauling her Redken Extreme Length shampoo. It’s the kind someone buys for themself, not for freeloading scalps. But instead, she found herself knee-deep in something…

In a video address to the nation, timed with Australia’s world-first teen social media ban, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese encouraged under-16-year-olds newly unable to access social media to “read that book”.

There’s the real world version of dating, and then there’s the BookTok version: dramatic, moody, and full of fantasy. A trend built around that idea has been circulating on TikTok, with creators staging the moment they “go for a drive” and someone follows behind.

A BookToker's startlingly accurate theory about One Piece's Sanji, made hundreds of chapters early, has veteran fans re-evaluating their understanding of the series.

Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of the publication of Twilight, the first book in Stephanie Meyer’s teen vampire romance saga published between 2005 and 2020.

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

Ruminating on the question of what happens after you die inspired R

LET’S UNPACK THAT: Think the bestselling mystery books – now adapted into a new Netflix film – are exclusively for readers as old as their crime-busting OAP heroes? Think again. Helen Coffey speaks to the twentysomething BookTokkers who can’t get enough of them