Books
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Inaugural Staunch prize won by the Australian novelist’s On the Java Ridge, in which a group of surfers tries to rescue a refugee boat from a storm -
Early feminist science fiction, the last man on Earth and the memoir of a highly intelligent cat ... among the 1,200 titles in the Penguin Classics series are these forgotten masterpieces
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Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
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This cheery tribute to bibulous conviviality also serves up a warm moral -
A Suicide Bomber Sits in the Library by Jack Gantos and Dave McKean withdrawn after more than 1,000 people object
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This intriguing study of our urge to make scale models is full of bizarre stories and poignant insight -
A wide-ranging book explores the way in which emotion rules current politics and the fraught contest between experts and the people -
The explorer John Franklin – The Man Who Ate His Boots – set off to find the fabled Northwest Passage. Palin’s account is full of wit and sympathy
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A reissued 1962 novel of the US civil rights era is deservedly taking the literary world by storm -
This beautifully understated life of Francis of Assisi, told in spare, unpreachy verse, illuminates our own times too -
Characters from Coe’s The Rotters’ Club return in a sweeping and very funny state-of-the-nation novel
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An architect has bittersweet thoughts about the society he has helped build in this powerful novel by South Korea’s most renowned writer -
This wild, genre-busting book set in small-town Australia takes in cancer, romance and kangaroo wrestling -
This eerie story of a returned soldier who receives a strange proposition is something close to a masterpiece
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A donkey’s ambitions to be an astronaut, a lion who wants to celebrate Christmas and a cicada facing up to bullies… -
A slender, but beautifully written evocation of the travails of writing and the deep sources of horror -
Sibling love drives this richly imagined adventure from the author of The Girl of Ink and Stars
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The US author behind Bored to Death and You Were Never Really Here on roaming New York sex shops and why he took his family for counselling before they read his book -
The American novelist on female power, watching The Wife go from page to screen – and the politics of book design -
Being black in white America, says Kiese Laymon in his new memoir, means never being less than perfect – or paying the price
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As a boy, he first fled a brutal war in Eritrea, then the oppression of Saudi Arabia. While the wounds of his early years may never heal, the writer says he has finally found a way of breaking the silence -
As he sets out to spill his secrets in an online masterclass, Brown talks about bad reviews, his habit of hanging upside down and the challenge of writing fiction in the age of Trump
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We talk to The Essex Serpent author Perry about the spine-tingling Melmoth and take Beowulf into the 21st century with Headley’s The Mere Wife
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This cheery tribute to bibulous conviviality also serves up a warm moral
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A selection of books to offer guidance and comfort through painful times -
What to read
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The crime writer on learning to reread with Lolita, giving up on books and growing up with Dick and Jane -
As Westminster coups simmer and Brexit negotiations come to a head, David Runciman chooses books that explore political division – and why we need it -
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As the film of her novel Disobedience is released, the author reveals how writing about the strict Jewish community she grew up in made her realise she had to leave it -
In his new book, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall set out to find a way to prevent following a night of drinking with a morning of feeling unwell -
Correspondence in new exhibition shows writer’s enthusiasm for the roast bird -
Readers have bemoaned the absence of an index in the former First Lady’s bestseller Becoming, but indexers say it could have been a casualty of US political chaos
Fire and Blood by George RR Martin Not for the average fan