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Shy by Max Porter audiobook review – tale of a ne’er do well, done well

Joe Gaminara’s narration pumps up the lyricism of Porter’s scuzzy odyssey of drugs, drink, youth violence and doomed romance

The Guardian - UK

True Love by Paddy Crewe review – from the heart

Melancholy is deftly evoked in this sentimental portrait of young love and precarity, from the author of My Name Is Yip

The Guardian - UK

Travelling by Ann Powers review – a dazzling life of Joni Mitchell

A sweeping study of Mitchell’s life and work that swerves familiar touchstones to create a vibrant, multi-faceted portrait

The Guardian - UK

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'Why politics really matters' Alastair Campbell is inspiring young people to take a stand

His new politics book aimed at 6 - 9 year old is out today

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Shadows of Winter Robins by Louise Wolhuter review – a masterful mystery that keeps you guessing

This writer’s tantalising second novel is packed with marvellous characters, whose unfurling stories examine generational secrets

The Guardian - AU

Women football players in Africa have overcome enormous barriers – new book tells the story

Women’s Football in Africa, the first in-depth book on the subject, traces the history of women’s soccer from initially being banned through to today’s growing numbers of fans and broadcasting potential. It’s a story of triumph despite enormous barriers – among them sexism, abuse, homophobia and religion. We asked its…

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Alice Munro Was Bigger than Canada

Here artists are celebrated by virtue of their nationality. Munro showed me I could escape those tropes

The Walrus

‘100% feminist’: how Eleanor Rathbone invented child benefit – and changed women’s lives for ever

She was an MP and author with a formidable reputation, fighting for the rights of women and refugees, and opposing the appeasement of Hitler. Why isn’t she better known today?

The Guardian - UK

Rosarita by Anita Desai review – a transcendent late gift

This profound and riddling novel follows a young Indian woman’s quest through Mexico to find out more about her mother

The Guardian - UK

New Louis Poulsen book explores the Danish lighting company's illuminating world

Louis Poulsen: First House of Light, published by Phaidon, is a new design book delving into the Danish company's world of radiant lighting

Wallpaper

Chris Brookmyre: My new book challenged me unlike any other

CHRIS Brookmyre might have written dozens of great Scottish crime novels, but that’s not to say there’s nothing that can offer him a challenge...

The National (Scotland)

Reese Witherspoon goes picnic chic in frilly blue gingham with timeless jeans

Reese's latest Instagram video features sweet blue gingham and classic blue denim

Woman & Home

Goldsmiths ‘determined’ to close Black British literature course, critics say

Staff, students and writers criticise decision to issue programme’s co-founder with a redundancy notice

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Finally, something to be cheerful about in Scottish football

A new Scottish football poetry collection could be just what we need after a poor performance at the Euros

The Guardian - UK

‘The teachers would refer to boys, girls – and you’: trans philosopher Paul B Preciado on reinventing Orlando

He was mentored by Jacques Derrida, and his memoir about taking hormones broke new ground. Now, Preciado’s radical cinematic riff on Virginia Woolf’s novel explores a life spent defying the gender binary

The Guardian - AU

‘Radical’, ‘a headrush’, ‘insanely clever’: the best Australian books out in July

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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End of Summer: release date, cast, plot and everything we know

End of Summer is a Swedish crime drama...

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My Lady Jane season 2: everything we know

Will My Lady Jane season 2 be riding on to our screens in the future?

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As a Harry Potter fan I visited the bookshop in Porto that 'inspired' JK Rowling — here's what I discovered

Livraria Lello in Porto is known as the most beautiful bookshop in the world — but it is also surrounded by an urban myth.

The Guardian - US

Georgia lawsuit challenges anti-LGBTQ+ book bans over ‘real harms’

Lawsuit says student and youth groups hurt after teacher was fired for reading My Shadow is Purple to students

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“Creativity can be spontaneous”: Designer David Airey shares a career’s worth of insights

In his book Identity Designed: The Process, David Airey offers up lessons he’s learned through his career to guide designers through navigating their own work.

The Guardian - US

Cannabis will likely soon be legally classified as medicine. But medicine for what?

Experts say the DEA’s rescheduling of cannabis as a medication will be ‘a little bit incoherent’

The Guardian - UK

I Will Crash by Rebecca Watson review – a unique take on sibling torment

A woman is haunted by her abusive relationship with her brother in this experimental novel of family trauma and memory

The Independent UK

What was the 'first American novel'? On this Independence Day, a look at what it started

Critics have long debated which books qualify as a ‘Great American Novel

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