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Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata review – a future without sex

The Convenience Store Woman author imagines the creep of a new worldview, in a novel that highlights the weirdness of normal life

The Guardian - UK

Most parents don’t enjoy reading to their children, survey suggests

Report from Nielsen and HarperCollins shows that parents see reading as a literacy skill, rather than something to encourage their children to love

The Guardian - UK

The Names by Florence Knapp review – What's in a name? Rather a lot in this intriguing debut novel

Do we choose our children’s fate when we name them? Three names, three fates.

Evening Standard

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Mysterious skull found decades ago could belong to legendary king, archaeologists say

Hungarian king was renowned for reforming justice administration and for being a patron of art and science

The Independent UK

Nicola Sturgeon to launch memoir at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Former first minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon will launch her memoir at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

The National (Scotland)

Sturgeon to launch memoir at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Also on the line-up are authors Maggie O’Farrell and Ian McEwan, as well as Gavin And Stacey co-creator and writer, Ruth Jones.

Evening Standard

Kardashian Robbery Suspect Says Heist Was One 'Too Many'

At the Paris trial of 10 people accused of robbing Kim Kardashian at gunpoint in 2016, a defendant who wrote a book about the jewellery heist Tuesday said he regretted participating while one of his co-accused vehemently denied any involvement.

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Jane Gardam obituary

Prolific novelist and short-story writer with a taste for the absurd

The Guardian - UK

The Most Divisive Sci-Fi Movie Of 2024 Is Getting A Strange Sequel

Francis Ford Coppola's self-funded magnum opus is getting a new life on the page.

Inverse

Jordon Hudson Posts Confusing Bill Belichick Email Amid CBS Interview Saga

BB's girlfriend continues to stoke the media fire.

Sports Illustrated

‘It’s just a book’: Wuthering Heights casting director defends choice of Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi

Kharmel Cochrane responded to criticism of both actors’ ages and of Elordi’s ethnicity being unfaithful to Emily Brontë’s novel, saying ‘wait until you see the set design’

The Guardian - UK

Jane Gardam, author of Old Filth and The Hollow Land, dies aged 96

Described by Ian McEwan as ‘a treasure of English contemporary writing’, the Yorkshire-born novelist’s career spanned 50 years

The Guardian - UK

Does a "More Honest" Discussion about Antisemitism on College Campuses Require an Honest and Unsanitized Account of October 7?

A recent blog post at AAUP's Academe is attracting notice for the way it characterizes the October 7 attack.

Reason

Parallel Lines by Edward St Aubyn review: An elegant skewering of the beautiful and the damned

Death, psychosis, apocalypse — it’s a strong mixture for a novel. In the hands of a writer less capable than Edward St Aubyn, it would probably add up to a fatal dose for a book that you were actually hoping to read and enjoy.

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Page-turners: paperbacks to buy this week

Tough, taut reads, from a thriller by Le Carré’s son to Rushdie on his stabbing

Marie Claire

Why is everyone suddenly obsessed with Labubu dolls? The surprising story behind the fashion world's latest must-have collectible

The surprising story behind the fashion world's latest must-have collectible

The Guardian - UK

Philip Pullman announces The Rose Field, the final part of Lyra’s story

The acclaimed writer of His Dark Materials says the third volume in The Book of Dust series will portray a ‘dangerous, breathtaking quest’

Inverse

20 Years Later, A Forgotten Sci-Fi Adventure Deserves Better Than Its Tepid Reception

When it was released in 2005, 'Hitchchiker's Guide to The Galaxy' was poorly received. It didn't deserve that.

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Marie Claire

Ana Huang Is Ready to Rule Over Romance

With the release of 'King of Envy,' the author, who started as a self-published BookTok favorite, is quickly becoming the queen of the genre.

The Guardian - UK

Consider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley review – a delightfully grounded romance

This irresistible love story braids the personal and the political – from Brexit to who gets to use the spare room as an office

The Guardian - UK

Parallel Lines by Edward St Aubyn review – troubled minds and family mysteries

The Patrick Melrose author brings his trademark dark wit and flinty compassion to this wide-ranging sequel

The Guardian - UK

New independent press to focus on male writers

Conduit Books will not ‘seek an adversarial stance … but the emphasis at first will be on ambitious, funny, political and cerebral fiction by men that is being passed by’

Salon

Hegseth’s Orwellian purge strikes fear

I was one of the few Black students at the Naval Academy in the 1970s, and had more freedom than students do now

The Guardian - UK

‘A mix of vaudeville and David Lynch’: the hit play about a giant rabbit on a psychoanalyst’s couch

Booker-nominated writer Deborah Levy is thrilling audiences with her play about a psychoanalyst dealing with a very unusual patient, seized with anxiety about modern life. She explains how it came about

The Independent UK

Bestselling German novelist Alexandra Fröhlich found dead on houseboat in Hamburg

Police say she was shot

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