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Literature:
Boris Johnson’s memoir sells more than 40,000 copies in first week on sale | Books
Boris Johnson’s memoir, Unleashed, sold 42,528 copies in its opening week after being published on 10 October, making it the…
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‘I emerged painfully transformed from her books’: Han Kang readers on her Nobel literature prize | Han Kang
The 2024 Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to South Korean novelist Han Kang, 53, whose works include The…
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Children’s and teens roundup – the best new chapter books | Children and teenagers
This autumn’s publishing schedule is packed with heavy hitters. Piers Torday, he of The Last Wild, has made a surprise…
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‘It was a deflating experience’: the novelists who nearly gave up | Books
The 2022 publication of A Hunger, Ross Raisin’s fourth novel, was his “lowest moment”, the 45-year-old author says. “It was…
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Watch extracts from the Booker shortlist, read by Tanya Reynolds, Will Poulter and Jason Isaacs | Books
The winner of the 2024 Booker prize will be announced on 12 November. Ahead of finding out who has won…
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The big idea: why it’s OK not to love your job | Books
A few years ago, I went to a retirement event for someone who, in his late 80s at the time,…
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Best Predator comic books of all time
Did you know that cinema’s most iconic extraterrestrial hunter has also been taking trophies for decades in the pages of…
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‘He knew this was going to be the last story he wrote’: the epic legacy of literary maverick Biyi Bándélé | Books
In early August 2022, Biyi Bándélé had a conversation with his editor, Hannah Chukwu, about the novel he was working…
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The Care Dilemma by David Goodhart review – a flawed study of family life | Society books
It was mostly in the small hours that I first read David Goodhart’s new book on caring. By coincidence, it…
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Helen Castor: ‘I’d rather not live in such interesting times’ | History books
Helen Castor, 56, is an academic, author and broadcaster whose acclaimed books include She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before…
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