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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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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