Books
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Lawyer for Jennifer Dulos’s husband is exploring whether her disappearance is a ‘Gone Girl-type case’, provoking fury of author behind book -
The first Omani woman translated in English and winner of the Man Booker International prize reflects on her ‘lucky book’ Celestial Bodies and Oman’s uneasy relationship with its history
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Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
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Travellers using their waiting time to access the streaming world of 21st-century information are seen from a surprising new angle
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Surprises ensue when two siblings hire a carer for their father in this fine, timely novel
Summer books
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Time travel and double agents, psychedelic trips and seafaring adventures … our pick of the best fiction and non-fiction to read this summer
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A journalist’s obsession with the infamous murders by the Family -
When housing is so expensive that the only thing left is to pack a van, head to Cornwall and set up in a shed -
From fascist folk dancers to new age ravers – a heartfelt survey of the musical lives and ceremonies inspired by landscape
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This stop-start collection of stories and essays only offers hints of the American writer’s droll brilliance -
The acclaimed Nigerian author’s ‘novel-in-stories’ about six African refugees in Europe is rich and complex -
A sharp and distinctive first collection of short stories
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An archive of black radical British history is explored against the backdrop of the Grenfell and Windrush scandals -
Episodes by Christopher Priest; Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy; The Border Keeper by Kerstin Hall; Lord of Secrets by Breanna Teintze and Lost Acre by Andrew Caldecott -
Campus novel satire and the high drama of a thriller combine in a fiendishly readable interrogation of the allure of violent fiction
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A ‘girl power’ stage show, a BBC drama and new, more diverse short stories ... will Blyton’s classic school series capture a new generation? -
Time plays tricks in an original and suspenseful tale for 8- to 12-year-olds that explores black holes and quantum physics -
The perils of the real world and magical realism
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One Day made his name – and the nation cry. Now Nicholls is back with Sweet Sorrow, set over the summer of 1997. He talks about his Bafta win and why he’ll never tire of romance -
The analyst and literary critic on why attention-seeking is a good thing -
The outgoing US poet laureate talks about her career, and we chat about the work of Alice Oswald, the new Oxford professor of poetry
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The extraordinary life, death and afterlife of Pakistan’s first social media celebrity -
When US poet laureate Tracy K Smith and Jackie Kay, Scotland’s equivalent, met for the first time, they had almost too much to talk about -
Examining race, class and Lee Rigby’s murder, Guy Gunaratne’s debut novel won last month’s Dylan Thomas prize. He talks about rebellion and leaving the UK
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The Italian author, who would have been 100 on 31 July, provides calm clarity in the face of the Holocaust in If This Is a Man and The Truce -
Travellers using their waiting time to access the streaming world of 21st-century information are seen from a surprising new angle
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Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
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An array of fabulous fiction and nonfiction to tempt a 16-year-old girl away from social media
What to read
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The author on the agonies of Remains of the Day, help for heartache and the joy of audiobooks -
An exquisite kiss from Virginia Woolf, hot skin from Carol Ann Duffy … Charlotte Mendelson picks books to inspire LGBTQ readers -
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