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Five of the best young adult books of 2025

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‘They rose out of the ground!’: Scotland’s brutalist beauties – in pictures

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The five best romance books of 2025

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I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables But the name was trademarked And my legal ordeal began

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Alice: Return to Wonderland review – a wonderfully eccentric new rabbit hole to go down

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Helen Garner says State Library of Victoria turned into ‘party central’, with planned job cuts to ‘bring disgrace’ on Melbourne

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Mr Men and Little Miss feature film in the works from Paddington producers

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Illustrating the ‘postcolonial experience’: 40 years of Peepal Tree Press

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Five of the best sports books of 2025

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Tom Gauld’s best cultural cartoons of 2025: buy a fine art print

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On yer bike! American speed demons – in pictures

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Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’

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Marina Lewycka posthumously named ‘winner of winners’ of Wodehouse prize for comic fiction

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Ms Holmes and Ms Watson – Apt 2B review: mysterious case of the joke-cracking Sherlock

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The best history and politics books of 2025

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Dog Man: The Musical, based on Dav Pilkey’s bestsellers, to be staged in London

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The best graphic novels of 2025

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The best crime and thrillers of 2025

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Dreamers review – deep sense of empathy powers emotionally vivid refugees’ drama

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What we’re reading: Geoff Dyer, Andrew Michael Hurley, Marcia Hutchinson and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in November

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‘It would take 11 seconds to hit the ground’: the roughneck daredevils who built the Empire State Building

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Five of the best food books of 2025

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How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? review – have yourself a merry little rumpus

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The best children’s books of 2025

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Paddington musical in the West End is practically paw-fect, say theatre critics

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Five of the best translated fiction of 2025

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Anthony Albanese’s reading list: which books should the PM pick up this summer?

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Paddington: The Musical review – they’ve looked after this bear quite splendiferously

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Poem of the week: Rich or Poor, or Saint and Sinner by Thomas Love Peacock

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‘I took literary revenge against the people who stole my youth’: Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu

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Can you have a community without craic? Scholars of Ireland’s pubs warn of declining numbers

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Fran Lebowitz: ‘Hiking is the most stupid thing I could ever imagine’

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Where to start with Tom Stoppard: from Brazil to Leopoldstadt

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Tom Gauld on ordering books online – cartoon

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‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more

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Stranger Things to Blue Moon: the week in rave reviews

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From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers

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New film adaptation of Camus’s L’Étranger opens old colonial wounds

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The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

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Tessa Hadley: ‘Uneasy books are good in uneasy times’

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Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting

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Informative, beautiful and deeply human: it’s time to cheer the underrated art of illustration

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Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned

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‘Adults think with their mouths open’: five modern aphorisms to help us make sense of 2025

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A Particularly Nasty Case by Adam Kay audiobook review – a wayward doctor turns detective

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The Rot by Evelyn Araluen review – headlong language and bitter truths imbued with tenderness

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy review – flimsy extravaganza needs deeper thought

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Move over Ebenezer! Ebony Scrooge gets Dickens dancing with a hip-hop Christmas Carol – in pictures

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The Little Mermaid review – underwater wonders cast a spell in mid-air

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Luigi: The Making and the Meaning by John H Richardson review – sympathy for a devil?

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The Matchbox Girl by Alice Jolly review – horror, humanity and Dr Asperger

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£15,000 prize launched for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds

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The Artist by Lucy Steeds wins Waterstones book of the year

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Nominate your favourite Australian children’s picture book of all time

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Service by John Tottenham review – comic confessions of a grumpy bookseller

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Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani review – can you really rehabilitate Idi Amin?

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The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgård review – can this sprawling epic deliver on its promise?

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Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review – the charismatic philanderer who changed science

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The Firework-Maker’s Daughter review – Philip Pullman’s fairytale is explosive fun

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Primitive War review – it’s Green Berets vs dinosaurs in cheerfully cheesy Vietnam war gorefest

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Ncuti Gatwa leads star winners at first Speakies awards for audio storytelling

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Ian Marchant obituary

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Poem of the week: Missing You by Miles Burrows

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Holbein: Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring review – a magnificent portrait of the artist

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Tom Gauld on librarians v booksellers – cartoon

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Has Britain become an economic colony?

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‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side

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Wicked forever: the enduring appeal of The Wizard Of Oz

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From The Death of Bunny Munro to Wicked: For Good: the week in rave reviews

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Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

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Sophie Hannah: ‘I gave up on Wuthering Heights three times’

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Things That Disappear by Jenny Erpenbeck review – a kaleidoscopic study of transience