Editors' picks
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Sue Townsend meets the Guardian book club
The author of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ and eight subsequent books about him, talks to Professor John Mullan at the monthly Guardian book club -
A life in writing: Jane Gardam
'I think I would have died if my first book hadn't been published. I was desperate to get started – I was possessed' -
Finding enlightenment in Mind, Body and Spirit
Podcast: Will the new year bring a new you? Oliver Burkeman offers Help! among the self-help shelves -
Pulse by Julian Barnes
Rachel Cusk praises the compassion and truth of Julian Barnes's painstaking short stories
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Libraries in jeopardy as cuts bite
News: Up to 800 – a fifth of the total – could close as local authorities look for savings -
Ebook app launched for babies
News: Baby Touch series adapted as ebook for children as young as six months -
Intimations of immortality
From embalming Lenin's corpse to schemes for uploading our minds into cyberspace, there are perennial bids to deny mortality. Why can't we accept the limits of science, asks John Gray -
Could a book really save your life?
A YouTube video discovers which of 2010's heavyweight novels could actually stop a bullet. You might be surprised by its findings -
Spring harvest
From 'oikophilia' to Snowball Earth, by way of poetry and a kaleidoscope of fiction -
More books news
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New Huckleberry Finn edition censors 'n-word'