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Other lives: Library leader at UCL committed to the movement for open science

The number of novels sold rose nearly fivefold year on year in the UK in January, Penguin Classics reports, as Emerald Fennell’s hotly anticipated take is set for release next week

Queer self-discovery drives this powerful coming-of-age debut set in a bohemian 1970s school

Lester’s 1990 classic about the wonders of nature wins Guardian Australia poll ahead of Possum Magic in second place

The bestselling author gets honest about the TV adaptation.

They say that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. The internet disagrees! Some cover designs are so terrible, so ridiculously nonsensical, that they’re actually entertaining. It’s any person with taste’s duty to make fun of them. ‘Terrible Book Covers’ is one of the most fun niches on the…

The author’s fourth novel offers a devastating day in the life of a 10-year-old boy who cannot be kept safe

‘Blair’ will re-introduce readers to Manhattan socialite Blair Walforf in her forties

Long after the invasion ended, we all still fear the pod people.