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This book was the most read on Kindle in 2025 – and you can read it for free

This gripping thriller has topped bestseller charts all year

The Independent UK

Podcast: in defence of paper Braille, Le French Gut, a pioneering midwife

France's largest Braille publisher struggles to continue producing embossed books in the digital age. Researchers delve into people's guts with a large-scale study on the French population's microbiome. And Louise Bourgeois, the French midwife who in 1609 became the first woman in Europe to publish a book about medicine.

Radio France Internationale

Taylor Swift Effect: Book Featured in Eras Tour Docuseries Triples Sales, Heads to Netflix

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour docuseries may have boosted Liz Moore's The God of the Woods, which is now set for a Netflix adaptation.

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This Christmas, let’s ban the world’s most miserable gift-giving game

White elephant parties – in which people are invited to steal each other’s gifts – are the last thing we need right now

The Guardian - US

David Ellis reviews Riva, Barnes: AA Gill’s favourite restaurant is still in a league of its own

Riva is a restaurant that gently embraces its diners, imploring them to come back, and back, and back

Evening Standard

The Winds of Winter Delayed: New Claims Suggest George RR Martin's Novel Will Never Be Released

Will The Winds of Winter ever be released? Explore why George R. R. Martin's massive HBO deals and the Zeigarnik Effect may leave the series forever unfinished.

International Business Times UK

Waterstones and Barnes & Noble owner looks to list booksellers on stock market

US hedge fund Elliott thought to prefer IPO in London over New York, which could be welcome boost to UK stock market

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Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20 years ago

The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

Freezing Point by Anders Bodelsen review – a prescient classic of cryogenics

This resurrected Danish novel about a man who is ‘frozen down’, awaking in an Orwellian dystopia two decades later, is inventive, funny and all too timely

The Guardian - UK

U.S. would be "lucky" if Trump serves "even longer," White House says

Trump and his administration have repeatedly teased the a 2028 bid, despite a third term being unconstitutional.

Axios

'GIRLS' Asks You to Rethink What's Beautiful—and Complex—About Girlhood

The authors/curators of the MoMu exhibit of the same name share what Sofia Coppola and her contemporaries can teach us.

Marie Claire

Even Happy Birthday has a dark side: my quest to tell the history of the world in 50 pieces of music

The Nazis adopted Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Happy Birthday hides a tale of corporate greed. And Putin uses Shostakovich’s Leningrad symphony as a call to arms. That’s why I put them in my soundtrack to the complexities of human existence

The Guardian - UK

Are we falling out of love with nonfiction?

In the early 2020s, readers flocked to books to explain political turbulence. But is the world now too grim to read about – and are podcasters taking the place of authors?

The Guardian - UK

The Winds of Winter Fears Grow as Brandon Sanderson Questions George RR Martin's Tropes

Brandon Sanderson reveals why George R.R. Martin's The Winds of Winter is stuck in a 'Tolkien trap'.

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Bog Queen by Anna North review – a tale that could dig deeper

This story of a teenage druid whose body is discovered in a peat bog has memorable moments – but its evocation of time and place is unconvincing

Cinemablend

Why Benedict's Story Has Been 'The Easiest' Bridgerton Book To Adapt, According To The Showrunner

An Offer From a Gentleman was great source material.

Louder

“My first boyfriend introduced me to The Wall. It was the only interesting thing about him”: Author and musician Joanne Harris on having the audacity to perform Pink Floyd, Rick Wakeman and Genesis music in her school band

She explains why prog makes her think of Barnsley, lists some of her favourite records and recalls taking her daughter to a Genesis tribute show only to hear her say: “Ah yes, Mastodon!”

The Guardian - UK

Stephen Fry launches campaign to boost reading for pleasure

The Hay festival president is asking readers for book recommendations that will ‘entice the most reluctant reader’ to help combat the decline in leisure reading

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Marie Claire

Sarah Ferguson Was Ready to "Tell Stories" About the Royal Family That Weren’t "Very Pleasant" Amid Andrew Divorce, Per Her Mother

Susan Barrantes admitted that her daughter was prepared to fight back during her split from the former Prince Andrew.

The Independent UK

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s memoir sells over 1 million copies worldwide

‘This is a bittersweet moment for us,’ Giuffre's family said in a statement

The Independent UK

The Housemaid review – Sydney Sweeney has a camp hit on her hands

3/5 Paul Feig nods to ‘Rebecca’ and ‘Vertigo’ in this pulpy adaptation of the Freida McFadden bestseller, which has a secret weapon in the form of a quite brilliant Amanda Seyfried

The Guardian - UK

Richard Osman among authors backing call to issue library card to all UK babies

The proposal, supported by Kate Mosse and Philip Pullman, aims to make public library membership a national birthright

Evening Standard

Indian Ink review: Felicity Kendal adds poignancy to Tom Stoppard play

3/5 In the wake of Tom Stoppard’s death this lush adaptation of one of his lesser works is given new charge

Total Film

Weapons creator is teaming up with Netflix for adaptation of grisly true crime novel Torso

Zach Cregger is making a movie about the Cleveland Torso Murderer

The Guardian - UK

The Innocents of Florence by Joseph Luzzi review – how abandoned babies spurred a flowering of Renaissance art

The precarious, cruel but dazzling world of a foundling hospital is brought wonderfully to life by the author of Botticelli’s Secret

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