The Guardian » 2 hours ago
The novelist and poet, who died a year ago, left a huge body of work distinguished by its melancholy wit and warmth. These are some of the highlightsPaul Bailey, who ...
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LA Times » 5 hours ago
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction....
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The Guardian » 6 days ago
Agatha Christie’s popular detectives feature in new Mr Men and Little Miss stories – Mischief on the Nile and Muddle at the VicarageThe latest adaptation of Agatha Christie’s works features an unlikely new suspect: Mr Tickle, of Mr Men and Little Miss fame....
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Giuffre’s posthumously published memoir lays bare the life-wrecking impact of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes – but it is also the story of how a young woman becomes a heroThere is a strand running through Nobody’s Girl – a memoir by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who died by suicide...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
An elegy to the poet’s personal physician is full of vivid detail delivered with infectious warmthOn the Death of Dr Robert Levet by Samuel JohnsonCondemned to Hope’s delusive mine
As on we toil from day to day,&...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The German actor’s real-life meltdown is the springboard for this compelling autofictional account, in which the author sets out to write about Kinski during lockdownA show-stealing villain in spaghetti westerns and slasher flicks with titles such as Schizoid and...
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The Guardian » 6 days ago
The Book of Dust trilogy is brought to a complex and fitting end as Lyra battles the Magisterium over her lost imaginationThings are falling apart in the final volume of The Book of Dust, the second of Philip Pullman’s magisterial trilogies set in a world that ap...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The viral blog turned book details the exhausting life of a courier, but something may have been lost in translationFrom the early 2000s until the Covid lockdowns, Hu Anyan was one of China’s vast army of internal migrants, moving between cities in pursuit of wor...
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LA Times » 1 week ago
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction....
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Horror tropes meet modern nightmares as the South Korean author takes us deep inside a research facility called The InstituteOur fears turn feral when they have nowhere to go. South Korean author Bora Chung’s new short story collection plays with old horror tropes: endles...
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