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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in June

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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Westminster is set to decriminalise abortion – what about Scotland?

WESTMINSTER legislation to decriminalise abortion has cleared the House of Commons this week - but what about Scotland?

The National (Scotland)

The Guardian view on the Women’s prize for nonfiction: shining a light where it’s badly needed

Editorial: Having a separate award was good for female novelists. Now a medical author is blazing a trail with a true story

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‘They entrusted me with their daughter’s memory’: Women’s prize winner Rachel Clarke on her story of a life-saving transplant

The Story of a Heart, which won this year’s award for nonfiction, tells how one child saved the life of another. The author talks about the amazing families involved, campaigning for a better NHS, and how being a doctor frames the way she writes

The Guardian - UK

Women’s Prize winner slams ‘unbelievable’ NHS doctor unemployment

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The Independent UK

Women’s Prize winner Rachel Clarke issues plea to Wes Streeting as NHS doctors face unemployment

Author and palliative care doctor won the literary award for her fourth book, ‘The Story of a Heart’

The Independent UK

Women’s Prize for Fiction ‘greatest honour’ as an intersex woman, says winner

Dutch author Yael Van der Wouden will receive £30,000 and a bronze statuette.

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NHS doctor Rachel Clarke and debut novelist Yael van der Wouden win Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and Fiction

Authors will receive £30,000 prize money in recognition of their achievements

The Independent UK

Yael van der Wouden and Rachel Clarke win Women's Prize book awards

Dutch writer Yael van der Wouden won the Women’s Prize for Fiction on Thursday for her debut novel “The Safekeep.”

The Independent UK

Women’s prize for fiction goes to debut novelist Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep

Nonfiction award goes to Rachel Clarke’s ‘beautiful and compassionate’ The Story of a Heart, about a lifesaving transplant seen from all sides

The Guardian - UK

Debut novel by Dutch author wins 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction

Yael van der Wouden won the award for her novel, The Safekeep, which explores repressed desire and the unresolved aftermath of the Holocaust.

Evening Standard

Pro-choice group opposes Stella Creasy’s abortion amendment

NC20 would remove criminal penalties for abortion in England and Wales, effectively decriminalising the procedure in all circumstances.

Evening Standard

Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025: Neneh Cherry, Yuan Yang, and Rachel Clarke in shortlist

Musical memoirs, medical histories, and foreign office insights populate the second annual shortlist of the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction.

Euronews

Musician Neneh Cherry and medic Rachel Clarke are among finalists for a major nonfiction prize

A moving memoir by Swedish singer Neneh Cherry and the gripping story of a heart transplant by British doctor Rachel Clarke are among finalists for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction

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Yuan Yang, Neneh Cherry and Rachel Clarke shortlisted for Women’s prize for nonfiction

Chloe Dalton, Helen Scales and Clare Mulley are also in the running for the £30,000 award, with the winner due to be announced on 12 June

The Independent UK

The 20 best books of the year, ranked

THE COUNTDOWN: Our chief books critic Martin Chilton chooses his very best reads of the year, from state-of-the-nation novels to surprising memoirs

The Guardian - UK

Hospital league tables risk sapping NHS morale

Letters: Pury Sharifi says tick boxes cannot measure continuity and compassion, while Alison Vaspe says naming and shaming is not the answer. Plus a letter from Sue Stephenson

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Wes Streeting, you must have a better plan for ailing hospitals than public humiliation

The plan to introduce league tables is a simplistic gimmick that will demoralise NHS staff – and sideline their incredible work, says palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke

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End of life care in England and Wales can’t cope with demand, say doctors opposed to assisted dying

Forecast indicates about 130,000 more people will need palliative care by 2048

The Guardian - UK

Should MPs legalise assisted dying? Our panel responds

Today Westminster begins its scrutiny of a bill that could for ever change the way we live or die in England and Wales, say Rachel Clarke, Lucy Webster and others

The Guardian - UK

Nuclear war rehearsal and Gauguin biography make shortlist for Baillie Gifford prize

Books by Rachel Clarke, Richard Flanagan and Viet Thanh Nguyen are among the six competing for the nonfiction award

The Guardian - UK

Culture of fear in the NHS needs to change

Letter: A little time spent building happy, cohesive, empowered teams would transform the health service, says Dr Meher Pocha

The Guardian - UK

As a doctor, I’m no apologist for Wes Streeting – but here’s where he’s right about the NHS

NHS ‘senior sources’ blasted the health secretary for admitting the service is broken. I applaud him for telling the truth, says palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke

The Guardian - UK

The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke review – a doctor’s remarkable account of an organ transplant

The remarkable journey of a young girl’s heart to a young boy’s body is told in an accessible, humane way

The Independent UK

Doctor reveals ‘grim’ realities on NHS wards with staff giving ‘end-of-life’ care to patients on trollies

Staff sometimes have to have end of life conversations with patients on a trollies in A&E corridors, palliative care doctor says

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