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Auction of fire-resistant edition comes ahead of an expected US supreme court ruling reversing the right to abortion
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Eight hours a day is a myth. Embracing our individual sleeping patterns could be the key to a better night’s rest
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This intelligent and knowing debut about a female academic’s dangerous obsession with a younger professor is less risk-taking than it thinks it is
What to read
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From Ukrainian history to Putin’s kleptocracy and Gogol’s stories, author and former Russia correspondent Oliver Bullough chooses the best titles
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Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some exciting new paperbacks, from brilliant non-fiction about sex and gender to acclaimed novels
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You can’t fault the former health secretary’s proposals for improving patient care, but his slick prose fails to acknowledge the damage inflicted on the NHS by his party during his tenure as health secretary
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A welcome humanising of Floyd might have benefited from a wider focus, including Black women’s experiences of racism and a global perspective
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What happens if Nazi butchers are ‘reassessed’ in the name of national pride?
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The experience of her own son’s drug addiction inspires the novelist’s overwhelming dive into grief, regret and love
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From communism to the Brexit referendum and conflict in Europe, this funny yet frightening Bulgarian novel explores the weaponisation of nostalgia
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Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin; Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister; Oxblood by Tom Benn; The Island by Adrian McKinty; Dear Little Corpses by Nicola Upson
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Set over one day in Dublin, this gentle, empathetic debut explores love and loss through the stories of two women
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Astral phenomena, Greek goddesses, deadly family curses and the best new YA fiction
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As an adaptation of her bestselling novel comes to screens, Sarah Perry describes the joys of being on set – and how the production restored her faith in storytelling
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The American author on feminist utopias, surviving the apocalypse and who is really responsible for the scourge of electric bikes on the pavement
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The American author on how his own experience of psychedelic therapy sparked his debut novel, and his poems about the opioid epidemic
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The DJ and writer on coming to terms with being a novelist, the appeal of middle-aged men and the book that broke her heart
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The author of the acclaimed The Secret Life of Church Ladies on the Black American Christian community, sexual shame and coming to terms with her queerness
Regulars
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The author on being inspired by Nina Stibbe and taking comfort in the works of Nancy Mitford
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Eight hours a day is a myth. Embracing our individual sleeping patterns could be the key to a better night’s rest
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