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Romance publisher yanks book after controversy over pro-Elon Musk lines in novel

EXCLUSIVE: Author Sophie Lark apologized for ‘hurtful’ lines in forthcoming book

The Independent UK

World Book Day: top tips for last-minute costumes

From Halloween-inspired Harry Potters to toilet roll-wrapped Mr Bumps, writers and booksellers share their ideas for kitting out your child for WBD at the 11th hour

The Guardian - UK

Kit de Waal to headline new festival celebrating women writers over 50

Forthwrite, which takes place over two days this month, aims to dispel stereotypes around older women

The Guardian - UK

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Unseen Harper Lee stories set in New York and Alabama to be published

Eight unpublished stories by the To Kill a Mockingbird author will be issued later this year as The Land of Sweet Forever

The Guardian - UK

‘Let’s dig into the archives and tell the truth’: interrogating Yale’s connections to slavery

Pulitzer prize winner David Blight follows his biography of Frederick Douglass with a deep dive into his university’s dark past

The Guardian - US

New graphic novel Magda, Intergalactic Chef puts a sci-fi twist on The Great British Bake Off

The comic even comes with recipes

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‘The blue blues have never left us’: a new book examines the color’s spanning ties to Black culture

Imani Perry’s Black in Blues traces the ways blue is woven through Black history, from Miles Davis to Toni Morrison

The Guardian - US

Picture books for children – reviews

Laughter abounds with tales of mini beasts at bedtime, a box filled with babbling babies and an odd-couple comedy from Julia Donaldson

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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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 - UK

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

Evening Standard

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…

The Guardian - US

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 - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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