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Thomas Pynchon’s whodunnit is painfully plotless

I couldn’t read it — and trust me, I tried. There are sentences here that go on for half a page and still go nowhere

Evening Standard

Where Music Meets The Word: The Creative World of Wendy Isaac Bergin

Wendy remains devoted to exploring the harmony between creativity and faith. Her next novel, the third in The Threshold of Eden series, is already in progress and is expected to reach readers in the coming years.

International Business Times

Nationwide supplier that sold books to libraries for community use closes down after 200 years

Library book distributor Baker & Taylor reportely started laying off 520 employees without providing severance this week after a failed ReaderLink deal

The Independent UK

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Colm Tóibín: Why I set up a press to publish Nobel winner László Krasznahorkai

The Irish novelist discovered the Hungarian writer two decades ago, and was excited by the verbal pyrotechnics of a rule-breaking storyteller

The Guardian - UK

What the late Jilly Cooper meant to us

Letters: Caroline Cole reveals why she called her first daughter Harriet. Plus letters from Bob Kentridge and Jean Holmes

The Guardian - UK

Heather Rose: ‘My ancestors escaped the French Revolution – that really got me, even as a child’

The Tasmanian author reflects on the dramatic family stories that have shaped her new novel, on a reviving bushwalk to her favourite tree

The Guardian - AU

'The Winds of Winter' Target Release Dates: George R.R. Martin's Full List of Broken Promises Spanning a Decade

George RR Martin's 'The Winds of Winter' has missed every self-imposed deadline since 2011. Here's the full timeline of his broken promises and shifting release targets over the past decade.

International Business Times UK

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‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature On the Road

The Guardian - UK

J.K. Rowling Brutally Mocks Harry Potter Event Organizers Over Apology To Transgender Community

J.K. Rowling shared a screenshot of the Vancouver Park Board’s statement revealing that it had publicly disavowed her over her transphobic views.

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Natalie Haynes: ‘I’ll never read anything by a Brontë again’

The author and comedian on the immortal lines of Snoopy, discovering the heart of Homer’s Iliad and her culinary comfort read

The Guardian - UK

A book is being marketed with mayo-scented ink. Jealous? Me?

With the rise of TikTok and two-tier marketing budgets, something’s off in the world of publishing (and it’s not just the aroma), says author David Barnett

The Guardian - UK

What are the odds Donald Trump will win the Nobel Peace Prize? How prestigious award could be decided

The United States president is currently the bookies’ favourite to be the next laureate after Israel and Hamas agreed to his Gaza peace plan two years after the October 7 massacre

Evening Standard

How ‘authenticity’ at work can become a trap for people of color

In her debut book Authentic, Jodi-Ann Burey argues the call to ‘bring your full self’ can leave people of color exposed

The Guardian - US

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen audiobook review – an immersive all-star dramatisation

Actors Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bill Nighy and Marisa Abela are among the cast in a pacy adaptation that retains Austen’s sharp plotting and comic precision

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Seed by Bri Lee – this propulsive, fun eco-thriller is the novelist’s strongest yet

Set in a secret Antarctic seed bank, Seed is a novel of friction and paranoia, of weaponised mistrust and cloistered desire, narrated by a misogynist antinatalist

The Independent UK

What to read by the Nobel Prize in literature winner László Krasznahorkai

Author joins illustrious list of laureates including Ernest Hemingway and Toni Morrison

The Guardian - UK

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

Hungarian novelist celebrated for dystopian, melancholic novels that ‘reaffirm the power of art’

The Guardian - US

‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine

Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’

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Amy Coney Barrett Is Right To Reject 'Common Good Constitutionalism'

Limits on government power are a venerable and beneficial feature of our system.

Evening Standard

Is God real? This bestseller says yes – and that science can prove it, too

The two French authors insist that ‘science appears to have become God’s ally’

The Guardian - UK

Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation review – revisiting the legacy of a counterculture classic

Wild-spirited but laced with dim views on race and women, On the Road is due a reckoning. This elegant talking-head doc works best when its unpicking is most forensic

Marie Claire

The Page-turners, Heartbreakers, and Big-Idea Books of Autumn 2025

The fall reads that everyone will be talking about

The Independent UK

Library director wins $700k settlement after being fired amid book row

Some complained that the books, which had sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes, were inappropriate for young people

Evening Standard

Lenny Henry faces backlash after calling for slavery reparations for black Britons

In his new book The Big Payback, the comedian and actor argues that racism in modern Britain can be traced directly to the slave trade and calls for radical solutions to address its legacy

The Guardian - UK

UK libraries urged to remove children’s books with URL hijacked by porn site

Puffin issues alert to schools and local authorities over books in popular Spy Dog series by Andrew Cope

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