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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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Time Together by Luke Horton review – old friends, new tensions in this compelling study of middle age

A beach holiday is narrated by four different characters as they struggle to slough off their personal ghosts

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OPINION - World Book Day and the costumes from hell: why it's time we abolished this festival of stress

Is there any horror to compare with World Book Day horror? I’m over it all myself because my daughter is at secondary school and they don’t get you to dress up at The Very Hungry Caterpillar there.

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Voices: Let’s end the performative hell of compulsory World Book Day costumes

I’m not saying social media is fetishising the act of reading as a nostalgic, middle class pursuit regardless of the child’s actual interests, but what I am saying is there are an awful lot of Pippi Longstocking outfits on Instagram, writes Emma Kernahan

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JRR Tolkien’s new letters reveal how irritable he could be

‘She reduced my manuscript to nonsense’ reads one letter as new archive sheds light on writer’s creative process

The Independent UK

Captain Tom's daughter claims 'nothing dishonest' about charity as she apologises if public 'feel misled'

Hannah Ingram-Moore discusses storm around family’s handling of charity set up in Covid hero’s name

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Gisèle Pelicot’s daughter accuses her mother of ‘not wanting to hear’ she was a victim of her father too

Caroline Darian has written a new book So That We May Remember about the Dominique Pelicot rape scandal

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Alive by Gabriel Weston review – a revelatory study of the body

A doctor draws on science, history, art and her own experiences to help us see human anatomy anew

The Guardian - UK

Flesh by David Szalay review – brilliantly spare portrait of a man

From youthful curiosity to midlife resignation, the protagonist is buffeted by forces beyond his control in this thrilling exploration of what it means to be alive

The Guardian - UK

‘Reduced to nonsense’: JRR Tolkien’s irritation with typist revealed in archive

Exclusive: Important collection of author’s letters and manuscripts, being sold in April, reveals his loathing of sloppiness and love of language

The Guardian - UK

Jamaica’s past and present laid bare in Marlon James’s superb crime thriller Get Millie Black

4/5 Tamara Lawrance stars in a drama that brings a novelist’s scope and ambition to a well-worn format

The Independent UK

Journalist Sophie Elmhirst wins book of the year at Nero Book Awards

Elmhirst took home the £30,000 prize for her debut book, Maurice And Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story Of Shipwreck, Survival And Love.

Evening Standard

Sophie Elmhirst’s Maurice and Maralyn wins Nero book of the year prize

The Guardian long read writer’s ‘enthralling’ first book was said to reach ‘the highest literary eminence’ by judging chair Bill Bryson

The Guardian - UK

How Scottish folk tales can connect people in era of ‘misinformation’

Writers behind a new collection of Scottish folk tales hope their stories can act as a “powerful” way of connecting people in an era of social…

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World Book Day: Why schools are asking pupils not to wear costumes of their favourite characters

Schools have adopted a more flexible approach in response to the cost-of-living crisis and the growing pressure on parents to create impressive costumes

Evening Standard

Failure to give basic facts on Southport killer led to ‘dangerous fictions’

Terror watchdog Jonathan Hall KC said the disinformation could have been ‘far more’ prejudicial to Axel Rudakubana’s trial than the true facts.

The Guardian - US

Peter Wolf on Faye Dunaway, David Lynch and Bob Dylan: ‘My mission was to be an observer’

The frontman of the J Geils Band has had an extraordinary life, living and working with celebrities along the way, detailed in a fascinating new book

The Guardian - UK

The Antidote by Karen Russell review – a magical realist Dust Bowl tale

A ‘prairie witch’ who can remove unwanted memories is at the centre of this 1930s-set parable about climate refugees, amnesia and the ethnic cleansing of Native peoples

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Style and substance combine in mesmerising historical drama The Leopard

4/5 This glossy, big-budget Italian origin story paints a family story in broad strokes and has plenty of modern resonance.

Evening Standard

Oscar's Book Prize: Author and CBeebies presenter team up to choose best UK picture book of the year

A kids TV favourite will team up with a children’s author to choose the best UK picture book of the year.

The Independent UK

Romance publisher yanks book after controversy over pro-Elon Musk lines in novel

EXCLUSIVE: Author Sophie Lark apologized for ‘hurtful’ lines in forthcoming book

The Guardian - UK

World Book Day: top tips for last-minute costumes

From Halloween-inspired Harry Potters to toilet roll-wrapped Mr Bumps, writers and booksellers share their ideas for kitting out your child for WBD at the 11th hour

The Guardian - UK

Kit de Waal to headline new festival celebrating women writers over 50

Forthwrite, which takes place over two days this month, aims to dispel stereotypes around older women

The Guardian - UK

Unseen Harper Lee stories set in New York and Alabama to be published

Eight unpublished stories by the To Kill a Mockingbird author will be issued later this year as The Land of Sweet Forever

The Guardian - US

‘Let’s dig into the archives and tell the truth’: interrogating Yale’s connections to slavery

Pulitzer prize winner David Blight follows his biography of Frederick Douglass with a deep dive into his university’s dark past

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