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Intermezzo by Sally Rooney audiobook review – modern love and loss

The stark differences between two brothers are thrown into relief as they navigate grief in this moving novel from the Normal People author

The Guardian - UK

The best new novelists for 2025

Welcome to our annual selection of the year’s finest debut novels. We have a proven track record in picking authors that go on to be loved by readers and win awards … from Douglas Stuart and Sally Rooney to Caleb Azumah Nelson and Bonnie Garmus. Here are 2025’s gems

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What has the Crikey team been reading over summer?

In our special Summer Worm, we recap the news and share what we’ve been bingeing over the break.

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31 best new books to read, from Sally Rooney to Percival Everett

Discover debut novelists and immersive page-turners from acclaimed authors

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Here’s Which Books You Should Read At Sydney’s Iconic Swimming Spots For Bookworm Baddie Energy

Nothing like the smell of ocean breeze, sunscreen and a fresh book.

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The ten best novels of 2024 – according to literary experts

With Something Good, the arts and culture newsletter from The Conversation UK, we aim to cut through the noise and recommend the very best in new releases every fortnight. In 2024, we’ve been spoiled for choice when it comes to recommending fiction. From Samantha Harvey’s spellbinding Booker winner Orbital to…

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10 notable books of 2024, from Sarah J. Maas to Melania Trump

Even through a year of nonstop news about elections, climate change, protests and the price of eggs, Americans still found time to read

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Did you solve it? That Sally Rooney hat puzzle

The solution to today’s puzzle

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Can you solve it? That Sally Rooney hat puzzle

Literary logic

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Anthony Cummins’s best fiction of 2024

From Sally Rooney’s funny and observant latest to Joseph O’Neill’s compelling Godwin and Sarah Manguso’s gripping portrayal of a broken marriage, these are the year’s most enjoyable novels

The Guardian - UK

The best fiction of 2024

From Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo to Alan Hollinghurst’s Our Evenings, Percival Everett’s James and a host of inventive debuts – this year’s highlights in fiction

The Guardian - UK

Novels about serial killers and loyal dogs voted Waterstones books of 2024

Booksellers chose true-crime inspired Butter by Asako Yuzuki as book of the year, while Ross Montgomery’s fun adventure I Am Rebel took the children’s prize

The Guardian - UK

Richard Flanagan: ‘I’m not sure that I will write again’

The Tasmanian novelist – whose latest book, Question 7, is up for both fiction and nonfiction prizes – on HG Wells, the TV adaptation of his Booker prize winner The Narrow Road to the Deep North… and his much-missed parrot, Herb

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5 best shows like 'My Brilliant Friend' to watch now the series has ended

What to watch after the 'My Brilliant Friend' series finale

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Florida officials report hundreds of books removed from schools

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Normal People by Sally Rooney and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, among books pulled

The Guardian - UK

The 13 best Christmas gifts for Taylor Swift fans

From a book that reveals the stories behind the record-breaking singer’s songs to her favourite kind of red lipstick, these pressies picked by our music editor will delight the Swiftie in your life

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Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler: a ‘sad girl novel’ that lacks emotional depth

In Adelaide, the debut novel by Genevieve Wheeler, a vivacious American woman living in London (the eponymous Adelaide) falls head over heels for the enigmatic Rory Hughes. By turns charming and distant, Rory entrances her, and the two fall into a whirlwind romance that never seems on solid ground. When…

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Best fiction books of 2024: from Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo to Percival Everett’s James

THE LIST: Catch up on the year’s best new novels with Katie Rosseinsky and Jessie Thompson’s edit of 2024’s most memorable fiction

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Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo among books on Waterstones Book Of The Year shortlist

Previous winners range from Philip Pullman and Maggie O’Farrell to Charlie Mackesy, Paul McCartney and Katherine Rundell.

The Guardian - UK

Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Arundhati Roy call for boycott of Israeli cultural institutions

The authors are among 1,000 books industry figures pledging not to work with any publishers, festivals or publications ‘complicit in violating Palestinian rights’

The Conversation

How Sally Rooney came to be dubbed the ‘voice of a generation’

Sally Rooney’s new novel, Intermezzo, is finally here – and nearly everyone I know seems to be reading it. It’s almost like the pre-streaming days, when everyone would settle on the sofa at the same time to watch the new hit TV series. The sense that we were all part…

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How does someone become the ‘voice of a generation’? A brief history of the concept

Sally Rooney, author of Normal People and now Intermezzo, keeps being called “the voice of a generation”. And she’s just the latest in a sequence of authors to get this accolade.

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson’s memoir, Unleashed, tops Amazon UK sales list ahead of publication

Sold at half price, the former PM’s apologia of his career has outstripped sales of recent novels by Sally Rooney and Richard Osman

Evening Standard

Sally Rooney, Hanif Kureishi, Elizabeth Strout: the best new books for Autumn

Discover the best new books this Autumn, from gripping novels to insightful memoirs

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Starmer accused of hypocrisy after Trump meeting ...The Standard podcast

Sir Keir Starmer has met with the US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for the first time.

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