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Books

  • The Dictionary People by Sarah Ogilvie; Biography of X by Catherine Lacey; Minor Detial by Adania Shibli.

    What we're reading
    Writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in April

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    Book of the day
    This Is How You Remember It by Catherine Prasifka review – an innocent online

    Jo Hamya
  • Johann Hari’s reporting has previously been called into question.

    Health, mind and body books
    Magic Pill by Johann Hari review – weighing in

    Tom Chivers
  • Sam Taylor

    Fiction
    The Two Loves of Sophie Strom by Sam Taylor review – a sliding doors tale of survival

    Christopher Shrimpton
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What to read

  • Composite image of best paperbacks May 2024

    Paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Richard Osman, Rebecca F Kuang and more

  • Keely Hawes, left, and Rachael Stirling wearing top hats and suits while sitting on a velvet sofa

    Five of the best
    Five of the best books about queer relationships

    • Read on

      100 best novels of all time
      From The Pilgrim's Progress to True History of the Kelly Gang

    • Books of the century so far

      The 100 best books of the 21st century

    • Composite for the 100 best nonfiction books of all time list

      100 best nonfiction books of all time
      From Naomi Klein to the Bible – the full list

Non-fiction reviews

  • The Garden Against Time In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing UK - Picador. Publication date: 2 May 2024

    Autobiography and memoir
    The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing review – an Eden project of her own

    Rachel Cooke
  • Sally Challen, with lawyer Harriet Wistrich, leaving the Old Bailey after hearing she will not face a retrial over the death of her husband Richard Challen in 2010.<br>TCGWAF Sally Challen, with lawyer Harriet Wistrich, leaving the Old Bailey after hearing she will not face a retrial over the death of her husband Richard Challen in 2010.

    Society books
    Sister in Law review – how Harriet Wistrich fought the law and women won

    Yvonne Roberts
    The solicitor, campaigner and feminist reflects on her notable cases, from overturning Sally Challen’s murder conviction using the defence of coercive control, to the bid to stop the release of serial rapist John Worboys
  • Rod and Yasser Arafat

    Autobiography and memoir
    Waiting for the Monsoon by Rod Nordland review – a war reporter finds a ‘second life’ in the shadow of death

    Jon Ungoed-Thomas
    The Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times foreign correspondent provides fascinating insights into surviving his job and his 2019 diagnosis with an aggressive form of brain cancer in this inspiring journal of self-discovery
  • A scuba diver descending a deep ocean reef wall.

    Science and nature books
    Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley review – a compelling sea view of civilisation

    Robin McKie
  • Yuan Yang.

    Society books
    Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang review – an intimate account of how China is changing

    Mythili Rao
  • Nasser Abu Srour

    Autobiography and memoir
    The Tale of a Wall by Nasser Abu Srour review – a Palestinian prisoner writes

    Lydia Wilson
  • Portrait Franz Kafka

    Franz Kafka
    Diaries by Franz Kafka review – caught in the act

    Chris Power
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Fiction & poetry reviews

  • Sarah Perry wearing a black dress over a cream shirt with a frilled collar

    Fiction
    Enlightenment by Sarah Perry – a tale of cosmic beauty on the Essex marshes

    Alex Preston
  • Marian Keyes, Irish novelist and non-fiction writer 2019-05-08 (c) PALMQVIST MICKAN / Aftonbladet / IBL * * * EXPRESSEN OUT * * * AFTONBLADET / 85789<br>2GJC56X Marian Keyes, Irish novelist and non-fiction writer 2019-05-08 (c) PALMQVIST MICKAN / Aftonbladet / IBL * * * EXPRESSEN OUT * * * AFTONBLADET / 85789

    Fiction
    My Favourite Mistake by Marian Keyes review – love and shenanigans in a new Walsh sister story

    Hephzibah Anderson
    In the bestselling novelist’s latest, Anna Walsh moves back to Dublin and falls for an old flame in a comical tale of grit, growth and self-acceptance
  • Nicolas Padamsee

    Fiction
    England Is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee review – battle lines are drawn

    Sana Goyal
    Two teenage boys come of age in a divided and radicalised London in this politically charged debut
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    Fiction
    England Is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee review – a searing indictment of factionalism

    Josh Weeks
  • Eagle’s Rock in County Leitrim

    Fiction
    The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes review – follow your own path

    Ruth Gilligan
  • New York

    Fiction
    Real Americans by Rachel Khong – the lottery of life

    Chelsea Leu
  • David Nicholls.

    Fiction
    You Are Here by David Nicholls review – a well-mapped romance

    Lucy Atkins
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Children's and YA books

  • The Magic Callaloo by Trish Cooke, illustrated by Sophie Bass.

    Children's book roundup
    The best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  • Terrible Horses, by Raymond Antrobus and Ken Wilson-Max. PR pics from Walker Books - with words removed

    Children's book reviews round-up
    Picture books for children – reviews

    Imogen Carter
    Bashful cats and lonely ponies stalk the pages of this month’s choices
  • I’ll See You in Ijebu, illustrated by Diana Ejaita

    Children's book roundup
    The best new picture books and novels

    Farming adventures; tales from the set of The Sound of Music; King Arthur reimagined; unrest in near-future London and more
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Interviews

  • Moses McKenzie is an author of Caribbean descent and grew up in Bristol, where his first two novels were set. His debut, An Olive Grove in Ends which Moses wrote at the age of twenty-one, was shortlisted as a Guardian Novel of the Year 2022. His second novel, Fast by the Horns will be published in spring 2024. Moses McKenzie is photographed in Nottingham, England.

    Moses McKenzie
    Reading Ulysses my first thought was, man’s taken a lot of drugs

  • Emily Henry - credit Emily Henry

    ‘My favourite stories are love stories’
    Emily Henry on her enemies-to-lovers relationship with romance fiction

    With four million copies sold and three books in adaptation, the Beach Read author is riding high. She talks about hope, TikTok tropes and escapism
  • Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in The Idea of You.

    ‘The writer of Fifty Shades gave me tips’
    Robinne Lee on her scorching bonkbuster The Idea of You

    The fortysomething turned her wildest fantasy – about running off with a boyband member for hot sex in fabulous locations – into a bestseller. As it hits the screen, Lee talks about writing steamy scenes in Starbucks – and her terror of being judged
  • George the Poet

    George the Poet
    Poetry is the artistic wing of politics

  • Observer Books<br>Jo Hamya. Her second novel is called The Hypocrite.

    Jo Hamya
    Could I just write one massive grey area?

  • Sarah Perry.

    Sarah Perry
    For much of my life, I loved God. The echo of that never fades

  • ‘There is something ghostly about being adopted. A set of tiny details is not much to make into a whole person’ Jackie Kay.

    Poet Jackie Kay
    I could have been brought up by Tories!

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Regulars

  • Caleb Azumah Nelson

    The books of my life
    Caleb Azumah Nelson: ‘James Baldwin ignited something in me that’s still burning today’

  • Elia Barbieri - The Guardian Saturday - Big Idea - 27th April 2024 - NIghtlife-01

    Big idea
    The big idea: what would culture look like without nightlife?

    Live music venues, clubs and bars feed creativity and drive social change. But they’re increasingly in danger
  • Expertly mined human treachery … Patricia Highsmith.

    Where to start with
    Where to start with: Patricia Highsmith

    Thanks to Netflix’s moody adaptation, Ripley, there’s more awareness of Highsmith’s skills as an expert writer of guilt, ambivalence and moral dilemmas at odds with reality
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