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‘Look how well-read I am!’ How ‘books by the metre’ add the final touch to your home – or your image

It’s never been easier to build an impressive-looking library, especially if you’re mostly interested in the colour and size of your books. Is this necessarily a bad thing?

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

International Booker prize 2025: six experts review the shortlisted novels

From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker prize. Our academics review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on May 20.

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'What it means to be a human': Short-but-punchy books dominate International Booker Prize shortlist

First-time nominee female writers dominate the International Booker Prize shortlist 2025.

Euronews

‘Mind-expanding books’: International Booker prize shortlist announced

From Muslim Indian women’s lives to a Danish time looper, all six contenders for the £50,000 prize are from independent presses, as translator Sophie Hughes earns an unprecedented third nomination

The Guardian - UK

Author Vincenzo Latronico: ‘I left Italy out of sadness’

The International Booker-longlisted Italian novelist on why he chose to rewrite Georges Perec, his preference for description over dialogue and being part of an anti-gentrification collective in Milan

The Guardian - UK

Forget leaving the house this month—with our edit of must-read books, you’ll be hooked

If you're after a new book, you've come to the right place

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Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico review: a self-skewering portrait of identikit hipsters

East London creatives (ELCs) are easy to spot. They wear carpenter’s trousers and Gore-tex to Columbia Road Flower Market, have weirdly strong opinions about tomato varieties and enjoy fiery debates about which Zone 2 pub serves the best Guinness. They might even have the Yves Klein blue cover of a…

Evening Standard

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico review – an object lesson in hollow hipsterism

An expat couple carefully curate their lives through plants and Radiohead LPs in this deliciously pessimistic chronicle of gentrifying Berlin

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