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‘What’s wrong with us?’ : Novelist Virginia Feito on our morbid obsession with true crime

Her debut, Mrs March, is being adapted by Elisabeth Moss, and her new novel has already been snapped up for the screen. Virginia Feito reveals the real-life inspiration for her shocking story of a psychopathic Victorian nanny

The Guardian - UK

Twist by Colum McCann review – globalism and a voyage into danger

A free-diving engineer repairs the undersea cables that carry data around our hyperconnected planet, in this intense maritime story with echoes of Heart of Darkness

The Guardian - UK

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: a beautifully written triumph

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s first novel since 2013’s Americanah is a winner

Evening Standard

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What do women really want from men? I delved into romantasy and found a good few clues

In these novels, the heroes are – to borrow a term from the fandom – cinnamon rolls: soft-hearted, sweet and, yes, delicious, says writer Max Fletcher

The Guardian - UK

‘Taut’, ‘extraordinary delight’, ‘absolutely bonkers’: the best Australian books out in March

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

The Guardian - AU

Call for restorative justice in sexual violence cases

The Lasting Harm, a book by author and journalist Lucia Osborne-Crowley, details her experience covering Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial.

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Being a new mum was tough for my generation too

Letter: My children were born in the 80s and 90s, writes Jacky Pugh, and lots of us had to go back to work after three months

The Guardian - UK

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A Squash and a Squeeze review – Donaldson and Scheffler favourite crammed with songs

Ingenious puppetry and jolly performances help animate the beloved story about an ever-expanding indoor menagerie

The Guardian - UK

Cora Kaplan obituary

Other lives: Literary critic and scholar who played a key role in ushering feminist readings of fiction and poetry into the mainstream

The Guardian - UK

Netflix’s Forever: Release date, cast and all you need to know about Spring's most anticipated show

From the first trailer to the star-studded cast, here’s your ultimate guide to Netflix’s reimagining of an iconic novel

Evening Standard

Luigi Mangione pens jailhouse letter after mom’s story of daughter’s healthcare ‘made him tear up’

Mangione said the letter was the first to make him ‘tear up’ as the mom, only identified as Karen, shared details of her daughter’s rare, life-threatening disease

The Independent UK

“I can’t remember the juicy bits and the other juicy bits I can’t have published while my children and my parents are still alive”: Fatboy Slim teases new coffee table book that isn’t an autobiography

Instead it tells the story of his career through objects

MusicRadar

Killing Time by Alan Bennett audiobook review – quietly subversive comedy

The author narrates his darkly comic novella about lockdown life in a care home during the pandemic

The Guardian - UK

Slender Man stabber’s conditional release approved by judge despite new concerns from psychiatric hospital

Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 years old in 2014 when they lured classmate Payton Leutner to a Wisconsin park and stabbed her 19 times in the name of Slender Man

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Jenni Fagan’s ‘visceral’ memoir of growing up in care wins Gordon Burn prize

The author said she hopes resulting publicity ‘is used to help stop other children falling through all safety nets as I did repeatedly’

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I switched from a Kindle ereader to Kobo for a week — here's why I'm never going back

I ditched my Kindle for a Kobo ereader for a week. It changed my mind about my favorite way to read ebooks.

The National (Scotland)

All the books children can get for free with their £1 token this World Book Day

Every World Book Day children in primary schools across the UK can get a free book with their £1 token.

The Conversation

Bridget Jones’s husband must die – how the women of our rom coms must lose love to find it again

In the first three Bridget Jones films, the eponymous chaotic heroine has been on a seemingly endless quest to not be single. We have watched her win, lose and secure again the heart of buttoned-up human rights lawyer Mark Darcy. Sadly, the cycle must continue, and in the newest and…

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Jan from Fear: What happened to the real life stalker and where is he now?

Prime Video's Fear is based on a terrifying true story - we look at who the real stalker was and what happened to him in reality

The Guardian - UK

Jennifer Johnston obituary

Prizewinning author who wrote elliptical, needle-sharp novels about family, Irish history and the Troubles

The Guardian - UK

If you only read one book this year … make it this one!

From dystopian Australian cli-fi to essential essays about Black Britain and Jack Reacher’s thrilling debut – authors, critics and booksellers all have a single recommendation

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50 Times Readers Forgot To Take Their Bookmarks Before Giving Away Their Books

The subreddit r/ForgottenBookmarks is all about the quirky and sometimes strange things people use as bookmarks, forgetting them only for the book's next reader to find many years later. The post 50 Times Readers Forgot To Take Their Bookmarks Before Giving Away Their Books first appeared on Bored Panda.

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61 Times People Saw ‘Rare Compliments,’ They Had To Share It Online (New Pics)

Here are some of the funniest and most unique compliments you will ever read from a social media comments section. The post 61 Times People Saw ‘Rare Compliments,’ They Had To Share It Online (New Pics) first appeared on Bored Panda.

The Guardian - UK

New poll finds 40% of Britons have not read a book in the past year

The median British adult has read or listened to three books in the past 12 months with reading habits also split along gender, class and political divides

The Conversation

Paying attention to how multilingual children read can help foster reading for pleasure for all

Just 34.6% of children in the UK read for pleasure, according to a 2024 survey by the National Literacy Trust. This is the lowest number since the annual survey began in 2005 – down from 43.4% in the previous year.

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