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Women’s prize for fiction reveals longlist ‘overflowing with compelling stories’

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Miranda July and Elizabeth Strout are among the 16 writers in contention for the £30,000 prize

The Guardian - UK

Conflict, imperialism, escape and the rise of Big Tech feature in Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 longlist

Books by renowned authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are among the works selected by a panel of expert judges, along with nine debut writers

The Independent UK

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy review – incurable sadness if bravely borne

Colm Tóibín introduces this welcome reprint of the US author and critic’s poignant account of orphanhood, first published in 1957

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The Chimamanda effect: Nigerians’ delight at first novel in a decade from their beloved daughter

‘Rock star’ author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count has been hotly anticipated by her fans

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February

Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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The Rainbow review – fluid female-centric tale of emancipation across the decades

Nicola Werenowska’s enterprising adaptation tackles DH Lawrence’s novel back to front

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Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney review – the women behind the woman

An erudite exploration of the female writers who influenced the celebrated 19th-century author brings to light neglected or forgotten but often captivating literature

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Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home review – the wonder of the wireless revolution

Beaty Rubens’s study of the impact of early radio broadcasts in Britain is full of fascinating and often poignant detail

The Guardian - UK

The Cafe With No Name by Robert Seethaler review – a cup of tea and a slice of life

A humble neighbourhood eatery in Vienna is the hub for a moving exploration of everyday urban existence in a new novel by the International Booker-shortlisted Austrian author

The Guardian - UK

Madeleine Watts: ‘Climate change should be in everyone’s writing right now’

In her second novel Elegy, Southwest, the Australian author writes into the climate crisis from a millennial perspective with a mixed sense of melancholy and hope

The Guardian - AU

Soft Core by Brittany Newell review – highly strung strippers and cranky madams

The writer’s impressive second novel about an erotic dancer and newbie dominatrix straddles thriller and satire in its depiction of desire and longing

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - As the Oscars return, it's time we faced the real truth about prizes

If you run with the pack, you need not bark but wag your tail you must. Russian proverb. For 23 years, I was literary editor, and later also film critic, of the London Evening Standard. A dreamy job — getting paid well to read books and watch movies and then…

Evening Standard

All or Nothing review: Michael Wolff details Trump’s bilious re-election campaign

The president’s least favorite biographer again exposes the grotesque pettiness of Trump as he willed his way back to power

The Guardian - US

Dark Like Under by Alice Chadwick review – the kids aren’t all right

Against a backdrop of Thatcher and the Falklands, this sharp debut punctures the facade of life at a middle-England grammar school

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In brief: The Curious Life of the Cuckoo; The Dream Hotel; The Rising Down – review

An extensive hymn of praise to a springtime songbird; a gripping tale of a none-too-distant dystopia; and a history of the land and people of a small part of Sussex

The Guardian - UK

For a stagnating left mired in pessimism, Milton’s radical vision is poetry in motion

The poet-prophet shows us how to sustain hope and redemption in the wake of political defeat

The Guardian - UK

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie review – candid conversations with friends

The author’s first novel since 2013 – a stately sisterhood saga about a group of women whose lives haven’t turned out quite as planned – continually reframes our understanding of the quartet, practically offering four books for the price of one

The National (Scotland)

Professor hails 'prophet' Buchan ahead of lecture marking 150th anniversary

HE is regarded as the father of the modern spy novel but John Buchan’s less well-known political views on Scottish nationalism and fascism deserve…

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Author William Boyd explains how Nigerian Civil War experience shaped his work

The novelist, who wrote Jame Bond novel Solo, moved to Nigeria with his family in 1964, three years before the Biafran War began.

The Guardian - UK

Colum McCann: ‘I like having my back against the wall’

The New York-based Irish author on being compelled to write about the big issues, his fear for friends in the Middle East and why Frankenstein is a metaphor for our times

The Guardian - UK

Salman Rushdie out, Dan Brown in: why it’s time to detoxify our middle-class bookshelves

Drop the pretence: instead of parading a love of highbrow literature, just enjoy the books you want to read

The Guardian - UK

James Bond nightclubs, vodka, aftershave: 007 writer on the spy’s future with Amazon

As the Bond franchise heads to the online giant, thriller author William Boyd foresees a slew of spin-offs and says AI is not a threat to human screenwriters

The Guardian - UK

Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – art v reality

The award-winning Australian’s deconstruction of the novel form is a rich pleasure

The Guardian - UK

I’ve written my last book on boxing. The ring is darker than it has ever been

For more than 50 years I’ve revelled in the epic, electrifying courage of boxing. But deaths, gangsterism and sportswashing have made it much harder to love

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The Leopard in My House by Mark Steel review – finding the funny side of living with cancer

The comedian reflects on mortality and the new course his life has now taken in this warm account of his cancer diagnosis and treatment

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