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The jury is still out on the merits of Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, which arrives in cinemas next month, but there is no arguing with the quality of the source material. Maggie O’Farrell’s lyrical and immersive novel, which won the...

In the five decades between 1910 and 1960, more than half a million people in England and Wales became Catholics. Among them were a clutch of literary stars: Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Muriel Spark and Graham Greene. But there was...

Fae kings. Talking dragons. Elvish laws. The many different fantasy worlds you find on bookshelves are becoming unified by a secondary genre: romance. The meld of romance and fantasy has been so successful that it’s led to the opening...

Inspired by and drawing on three British novels (HG Wells’s The Time Machine, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Henry Green’s Concluding), Updike’s debut imagines a near future where the residents of a care home stage a revolt in which...

1.BERNARDINE EVARISTO Who is considered to be the world’s first male or female author?Reveal2.Approximately how many books are published in the UK annually, including self-publishing?Reveal3.Where do these lines of text originate: “we are untamed / a wilderness of women...

The Great Christmas Tree Race by Naomi Jones, illustrated by James Jones, Ladybird, £7.99Star always goes on top of the Christmas tree – until new decoration Sparkle kicks off a race. Who will win: Lights, Bauble, Snowflake or Reindeer?...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Lyndsie Manusos’s fiction has appeared in PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and other publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute...

In the decade leading up to the pandemic, nonfiction seemed unstoppable. Readers flocked to books that explained a world upended by Brexit, Trump, #MeToo and climate upheaval. Titles such as Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny, Caroline Criado-Perez’s Invisible Women, and...

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