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Digested week: Humid New York or London’s oven-blast heat? Tough one to call

Plus, heartbreakingly brilliant Cats: the Jellicle Ball, summer reads and Taylor Swift’s low-key wedding

The Guardian - UK

Queen Camilla Bluntly Shares One Activity She "Hates" Above All Others: "No, I Can't Do That"

This Queen knows what she likes.

Marie Claire

Thursday briefing: Thirty years of the Women’s prize for fiction – have male novelists been edged out?

In today’s newsletter: As the literary award marks its 30th anniversary, the debate about whether it is relevant when women dominate bestsellers list has resurfaced

The Guardian - UK

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Rachel Cooke obituary

Journalist, literary critic, food writer and columnist whose work graced the Observer for 24 years

The Guardian - UK

Everyday heroes: the ready and reliable recipes I reach for all week long

In this week’s Feast newsletter: With summer giving way to autumn, these good-value, flexible and accommodating eats will make life that little bit easier – and no less delicious

The Guardian - UK

‘Uniquely qualified’: Elizabeth Jane Howard’s niece to continue her Cazalet Chronicles novels

Novelist Louisa Young will write the sixth, seventh and eighth books in a move that ‘will thrill existing readers’

The Guardian - UK

Five of the best books about fatherhood

The author of Going Home, an acclaimed novel about the effects of unexpected fatherhood on a thirtysomething man, shares his favourites

The Guardian - UK

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Best books to gift (and gift again) at Christmas: The Independent newsroom make their picks

CHRISTMAS 2025: When you give someone a book as a gift, what you’re really giving them is a few hours of pleasure. Indy staff share their trusted literary gifts this Christmas

The Independent UK

The books we give as gifts

When you give someone a book as a gift, what you’re really giving them is a few hours of pleasure. Indy staff share their trusted literary gifts this Christmas

The Independent UK

Hot off the press: authors pick their page-turners for summer

From murder mysteries to comic novels, Maggie Shipstead, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Nina Stibbe, Paul Murray and other authors choose unputdownable favourites for your summer break

The Guardian - UK

Friday essay: 'the problem is that my success seems to get in his way' – the fraught terrain of literary marriages

“It’s true to say that writers are selfish people,” the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard once said. “But it’s not quite enough of an excuse.”

The Conversation

Literary escapes! 10 top London authors on their summer must-reads

Classic romance novels, epic sci-fi, poetic prose — Alex Peake-Tomkinson quizzes writers from Jessie Burton to Diana Evans on their all-time favourite literary escapes

Evening Standard

Martin Amis: literary wunderkind who ‘blazed like a rocket’

A “blazing, once-in-a-generation talent”, Martin Amis “provoked, inspired and outraged readers ... across a literary career that set off like a rocket, and went on to dazzle, streak and burn for almost 50 years”, said Boyd Tonkin in The Guardian.

The Week

Martin Amis obituary

Writer whose acrobatic wit defied gravity and solemnity and who epitomised literary fame in an age of glitz and hype

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Martin Amis, literary ‘enfant terrible’, dies aged 73

Author of ‘London Fields’ and ‘The Information’, who divided opinion over his writing style and personal views, died of oesophageal cancer at his home in Florida

The Guardian - UK

Martin Amis, era-defining British novelist, dies aged 73

The celebrated author of Money and London Fields, whose works defined the 80s and 90s literary scene, died of oesophageal cancer on Friday at his home in Florida

The Guardian - UK

Lives of the Wives by Carmela Ciuraru review – literary couples a breed apart

The author raids memoirs and letters but adds little of her own in this juicy group biography of writers’ marriages

The Guardian - US

‘Ruthless ambition and ego’: what it’s like being married to an author

In a meticulously researched new book, the lives of five literary wives are examined and the often abusive relationships they found themselves in

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