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6 August 2024

  • 2023 Cheltenham Literature Festival<br>CHELTENHAM, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 7: Kate Atkinson, English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She is known for creating the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series Case Histories, attends the 2023 Cheltenham Literature Festival on October 7, 2023 in Cheltenham, England. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

    Thrillers of the month
    Crime and thrillers of the month – review

  • Zoe Williams reads romance literature.

    My weeks of reading hornily: steamy book sales have doubled – and I soon found out why

5 August 2024

  • Novelist Ursula Parrott

    Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott review – Bridget Jones in the jazz age

  • A depiction of the Great Flood from the Epic of Gilgamesh<br>Illustration of a depiction of the Great Flood from the Epic of Gilgamesh

    There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak review – water, water everywhere

4 August 2024

  • Planeta Awards 2014<br>BARCELONA, SPAIN - OCTOBER 15: Rosa Regas attends the '63th Premio Planeta' Literature Awards at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya on October 15, 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Miquel Benitez/Getty Images)

    Rosa Regàs obituary

  • San Miguel de Allende, Benito Huarez park in Zona Centro in historic city center<br>RM396K San Miguel de Allende, Benito Huarez park in Zona Centro in historic city center

    Rosarita by Anita Desai – a luminous search for a mother

  • Edna O’Brien.

    ‘She did not suffer a fool or hypocrite and loved a good laugh’: novelist Edna O’Brien

  • Horse and foal in a field in the foreground with verdant landscape in the background stretching out to a mountain range.

    Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan review – old grudges die hard in rural Ireland

  • The Garden by Clare Beams review – Mother Nature’s mystical powers

  • In brief: The Newsmongers; The Night in Venice; Vital Organs – review

3 August 2024

  • Elif Shafak

    Elif Shafak: ‘As a writer in Turkey, you can be attacked, put on trial, imprisoned’

  • Harlan Coben wearing a bright blue checked suit, a light shirt and a navy tie

    The Q&A
    Harlan Coben: ‘After I’d signed autographs for fans in Paris, one said: I told you it wasn’t Bruce Willis’

  • books

    ‘A rumpled paperback showed me I was not alone’: Charlotte Mendelson, Michael Rosen and others on the books that marked their coming of age

  • Wigan Casino 50th anniversary northern soul celebration, Blackpool, 2022

    Book of the day
    Rare Singles by Benjamin Myers review – northern soul and second chances

2 August 2024

  • Alexis Wright.

    Praiseworthy: why Alexis Wright’s ‘staggering’ epic is sweeping prizes – and challenging readers

  • Books of the month composite Australia.

    Bookmark this
    New Andy Griffiths, Korean slow food and a frontier war epic: the best Australian books out in August

1 August 2024

  • Book Review Alice Robinson

    Australian book reviews
    If You Go by Alice Robinson review – what would you do with a second chance at life?

    This ambitious novel, which follows a mother who wakes up in the future without her children, wrestles with complex existential questions
  • Alexis Wright, Australian Waanyi author

    Australian arts in focus
    Alexis Wright wins second Miles Franklin prize for Praiseworthy

    The 73-year-old Waanyi writer takes home $60,000 for Australia’s most esteemed literary prize, after having won in 2007 for her novel Carpentaria
  • The US Capitol Building Dome before sunrise, as seen from a taxi, in Washington DC

    Book of the day
    Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu review – haunting American dreams

    A journalist travels across the US to unravel the secrets surrounding the life and death of his Ethiopian immigrant father

July 2024

  • The spines of the six books on the Miles Franklin shortlist

    Australian arts in focus
    No longer pale, male and stale: your guide to the 2024 Miles Franklin shortlist

    Astrid Edwards for the Conversation
    Over the past two years the Miles Franklin shortlists have showcased the most diverse groups of writers in the prize’s history
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