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35 Gifts For Book Lovers That Arenβt Books
Gifts that are as just satisfying as a new book... because they probably don't have room on their bookshelves for another one anyway.
Yesterday's edition:
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How a politician went from celebrated hero to forgotten nobody
Yuri Herreraβs novel, Season of the Swamp, imagines how a Mexican revolutionary may have spent his exile in the messy glamour of New Orleans
Dawnβs Early Light by Kevin Roberts review β weird vibes and pyromania from Project 2025 chief
Head of Heritage Foundation wants to burn it all down in his new book and won't shut up about it.
Stock up on hundreds of free books on the latest Stuff Your Kindle Day
How to get free books on Stuff Your Kindle Day. Get romance books featuring βcinnamon roll main male characters.β
10 Mystery Books That Are as Funny as They Are Clever
Looking for a good laugh with a side of intrigue? Check out these 10 funny mystery books filled with quirky characters, wild plots...
Christy Brown book returned to Irish library after 53 years
A book found in a London flat has been returned to an Irish library more than 53 years after it was taken out...
Cross stars explain why series doesn't adapt James Patterson's books
Aldis Hodge and Isaiah Mustafa spoke exclusively with RadioTimes.com about their new take on iconic characters Alex Cross and John Sampson.
Sigrid Rausing: βI like the idea that we β the living β are the ghosts haunting the deadβ
In 2022, Sigrid Rausing's friend of 30 years, acclaimed Swedish writer Johanna EkstrΓΆm, died of terminal cancer.
Garth Greenwell: βI didnβt read Middlemarch until my late 30s. Why didnβt someone intervene? β
The novelist on Virginia Woolf's luminous prose, obsessively rereading James Baldwin and why Saint Augustine is his favourite writer.
The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad is a history book as gripping as a thriller
Simon Parkin is the author of two books on World War Two - but is latest is easily the most dramatic.
Anton Hur On the βKorean Waveβ in Books
A hit in Korea, Indeterminate Inflorescence is a breathtaking and refreshing collection of aphorisms on poetry and writing poetry, that acts as inspiration...
Books of the year 2024
New Statesman writers and guests choose their favourite reading of the year.
Seven books to get kids reading again β Dr Seuss, Wimpy Kid and more
Fewer children are reading for pleasure than ever before. Jokes, adventure and, yes, comics will help to get them hooked.
Book Review β Salvage by Mark Baillie
A lifetime of poor housing, dirty jobs and smoking has caught up with him, and now his emphysema's at stage four
8 Biggest Changes Cross Season 1 Makes To James Patterson's Alex Cross Books
Although Amazon Prime Video's Cross is based on James Patterson's Alex Cross books, it brings many significant changes to the stories...
Top 10 best Robert Harris books ranked - and Fatherland is not No. 1
His novels span from turbulent ancient Rome to alternate histories of World War II.
Books So Good Bad They're Good: Lord Thomson Rides the Storm
Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik review βthe seductress and the sphinx
This account of the purported bond between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, two fascinating chroniclers of late 20th-century America...
My ex thought my book was about him β so my publisher dropped me
Like best-selling author Coco Mellors, I too have been accused of putting a real person in a novel. But reader, don't flatter yourself
The best books of 2024, according to the Amazon Books Editors
'The Boys of Riverside' by Thomas Fuller is named the No. 1 pick from among Amazon's wide selection of books.
A summary/intro from Mitch Albom, the author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven...