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‘Heinous amounts of butter and cheese!’ – Poppy O’Toole’s new cookbook is a spud-fuelled fever dream

Dubbed the ‘High Priestess of Potato’ by Nigella Lawson, Poppy O’Toole has built a career on her love of spuds. Now, with ‘The Potato Book’, the TikTok star is taking her obsession to decadent new heights – with a little help from an outrageous amount of butter, says Ella Walker

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‘Detransition Baby’ author Torrey Peters: ‘Being trans is a particular constellation of feelings that we all have’

INTERVIEW : The Women’s Prize-nominated author Torrey Peters speaks to Hannah Ewens about horny lumberjacks, creating work for a dark political future in the US and why she won’t stop writing from the trans female perspective

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Israeli police raid Palestinian bookshop in East Jerusalem twice in a month

Books about Banksy and by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé were removed, and one of the owners detained

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Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has a new update on The Winds of Winter: "I wish it would come faster"

The book was meant to be published in 2016

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Lauren Child in running for repeat Carnegie medal after 25 years

Former children’s laureate joins shortlists for prestigious children’s book prizes that ‘highlight the diversity and high quality’ in British work

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new book Dream Count explores love in all its complicated messiness

Award-winning Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel Dream Count has landed. It’s been over a decade since Adichie published her previous novel, Americanah, following on global successes for Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus.

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All you need to know about London Book Fair 2025 as thousands head to Kensington for annual event

Essential trade fair returns for 2025 with events and seminars

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Hay Festival 2025: ‘Carnival of ideas’ returns with new events programme

Annual literary event has become a prominent occasion in British culture and boasts a star-studded lineup with over 600 events

The Independent UK

William S Burroughs’s art: ‘He said, I killed the only woman I loved. Then broke down sobbing’

Notorious for his drug-fuelled literary experiments and the fact that he shot his partner, beat writer Burroughs also made art inspired by the climate crisis

The Guardian - UK

The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits review – a triumphant twist on the great American road novel

Fleeing a failing marriage and culture war battles, a man drives away from the wreckage of his past

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Carrion Crow by Heather Parry review – a stomach-clenching contender for awards

A woman is confined to the attic by her mother in a thrillingly told novel that revels in squalor

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Natasha Brown on her razor-sharp satire Universality: ‘There was absolutely a lot of cringe’

INTERVIEW: The author, who shot to prominence with her 2021 debut novel ‘Assembly’, speaks to Katie Rosseinsky about writing habits, the future, and her button-pushing new book

The Independent UK

Three memorable ways the COVID pandemic shaped Black music – five years on

Five years ago, at the start of 2020, I was looking forward to the publication of my book, Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City and eagerly anticipating a long-awaited holiday to Jamaica.

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Joseph Wambaugh obituary

Bestselling crime writer whose work drew on his own experience as an LAPD detective

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Athol Fugard: the great South African playwright who captured what it means to be human

I was shocked to learn that the famous South African writer Athol Fugard had passed away. I had known his age to be 92 but somehow I never expected him to die. He was always a survivor.

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Long live Joyce Carol Oates’ Twitter account: the only pure space left on this hell site

The 86-year-old author’s social feed might be her greatest contribution to literature – with philosophical musings on everything from US politics to an infected foot

The Guardian - UK

Athol Fugard was a dreamer, listener and master storyteller – on stage and at home

The South African writer, who has died aged 92, was grateful for his extraordinary life and wrote out of love rather than anger

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Cry When the Baby Cries by Becky Barnicoat review – the black and white truth about motherhood

Barnicoat’s memoir of early parenthood is funny, unflinching and a welcome corrective to the ceaseless pressures new mums face from social media

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Two slaps in the face from the Europeans

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A Town Without Time by Gay Talese review – New York by an old master

The colour and detail in this collection of nonfiction by the grandfather of New Journalism brings the city to gripping, dazzling life

Evening Standard

Israeli ambassador attacks London School of Economics over Hamas ‘propaganda’ book launch

Tzipi Hotovely claims students could be influenced by author’s whitewashing of Hamas’s October 7 attacks

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The Mouthless Dead by Anthony Quinn review – murder most unsolvable

The author’s haunting and highly readable fictionalisation of a high-profile killing in prewar Liverpool is rich in legal and procedural detail

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‘Something magical is happening’: sales boom for children’s comics creating young readers of the future

Publishers and analysts say popularity of genres like manga and superhero comics is a gateway into reading

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A Room Above a Shop by Anthony Shapland review – a striking story of concealed love

This unforgettable tale of two men in late-80s Wales deals with the emotions and repercussions of their intimacy – and is one of the best debut novels in years

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Crumble, cookies and madeleines – recipes of hope for Iran’s jailed women

Sepideh Gholian’s diary of prison life came out four years ago. Next month, she will publish a cookbook to honour her fellow inmates

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