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The Reading group hasn’t paid much attention to them thus far, since they are relatively marginal figures. But their presence in the title changes the whole book
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Poets' tour hits Bath Strawberry moon in a honey-dipped city
Imtiaz DharkerThe Shore to Shore diary makes a second stop, where we are treated to warm enthusiasm and opinionated bookselling – and find more reasons to write
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Still largely unknown to western readers, Jing Xianghai is the best-selling Taiwanese poet of his generation, combining comedy with heroic pathos
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Extract from The Antelopes by Wallander author – who spent years in Mozambique – published in Index on Censorship
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The author of Asking for It explains how she drew on many people’s experience of sexual violence for her novel, including her own
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Cover artwork for 1968 Marvel cover featuring Norse ‘superhero’ goes to auction after decades on a bedroom wall
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Public poll shuns giants such as Toni Morrison and William Faulkner, but Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Stephen King’s The Stand are in
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Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them – plus our favourite literary links
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Batgirl's story in The Killing Joke is horrific, but her trauma can be cathartic for some fans
William ProctorDC’s forthcoming adaption of the story where the Joker assaults Batgirl has offended some, but showing rape in popular culture doesn’t equal endorsement -
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Top 10sTop 10sTop 10 books about middle ageFinding work that confronts this difficult stage of life with honesty and wisdom is not easy – but these writers show it can be done
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Reading groupReading groupHow did the Master and Margarita become Bulgakov's title characters?The Reading group hasn’t paid much attention to them thus far, since they are relatively marginal figures. But their presence in the title changes the whole book
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100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time100 Best Nonfiction Books of All TimeThe 100 best nonfiction books: No 21 – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn (1962)The American physicist and philosopher of science coined the phrase ‘paradigm shift’
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PodcastPodcastThe art of memory with Abby Smith Rumsey and Simon Bill – books podcastWe explore memory and forgetting with a fictional artist who struggles with recall and a cultural historian examining the past to solve present troubles with data storage
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Skyfaring Nervous flyers should get this book on prescription
Nicholas LezardMark Vanhoenacker has written a beautiful, contemplative book that reveals nature’s wonders and reassures worried flyers -
The less promising his subject, the more brilliant Geoff Dyer gets in this collection of essays on travel and art
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This vital study exposes the myths promoted by defenders of the sex trade
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Susan Faludi’s funny, painful investigation of identity centres on her father’s gender reassignment and a family history of Hungary under Nazi occupation
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Memoir What Language Do I Dream In? by Elena Lappin
Amanda CraigLappin’s account of her life as a multiple émigré is shot through with sadness and euphoria -
This vivid chronicle of an unmarried writer’s life records her grief, fears and desires, and the trials of war
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Joe Hill’s follow-up to NOS4R2 envisages a world overcome by a fungus that causes spontaneous human combustion
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Proulx’s sprawling ecological saga is rich in incident but lacks the human touch
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Johnson’s surreal and atmospheric stories are set in a liminal landscape where girls become eels
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The American wife of an English spy hides her political subterfuge behind social conformity in this deft debut
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Indonesia is the backdrop for this masterful story about political and personal betrayal
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Children and teenagers Riverkeep by Martin Stewart – a relentlessly brilliant supernatural debut
Lucy ManganSixteen-year-old Wulliam is confronted with villains and grotesques in his quest to save his father’s soul -
The Museum of You by Carys Bray Funny, truthful and bold
Helen DunmoreThe follow-up to A Song for Issy Bradley examines how a bereaved young girl makes sense of her grief
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Chris Riddell is the first triple winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway medal for his illustrations in Neil Gaiman’s retelling of Sleeping Beauty. We talk to him about how it feels to win and his love for Gaiman and libraries
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Drama of concentration camp survivor, set in 1950s London, praised by judges as ‘a spy story in the grand tradition’
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Author of six novels and editor who launched Robert Harris’s career as a novelist with Fatherland
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The New Yorker writer reflects on Donald Trump’s election chances, his megalomania and why he once sent him a cheque for $37
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Funny books are celebrated as the winners of the inaugural Laugh Out Loud book awards (The Lollies) are announced by Michael Rosen
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Brazilian poet Pedro Gabriel started writing poems on napkins when he ran out of paper - now, two books and millions of online followers later, his breathtaking designs are set for international recognition, writes children’s books site member Pedro
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The author of the Summoner fantasy series talks to teenagers from DGReaders book group about his hero Darren Shan, bullying and the wonders of Wattpad
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The Guardian is changing how it covers children’s books – here we look back at some of the highlights of the Guardian children’s books site since 2011
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A novel written in free verse takes the Carnegie for the first time in the medal’s illustrious history
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Jenny Downham explains how Robert C O’Brien’s novel of post-nuclear apocalypse gave her far more than relief from the fear of nuclear war in the 1970s – a life-long belief in the strength of girls and women, and the prototype for her own fictional heroines
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Dads often get a raw deal in picture books - often absent or else caricatured as the not-very-smart or the fix-it-all-with-my-toolbox father. Here Sean Taylor picks the best well-rounded dads in a selection of fabulous picture books for father’s day
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The Little Library CaféThe Little Library CaféFood in books: the Yuk Hwe (Korean beef tartar) in The VegetarianKate Young makes a very meaty recipe from the International Man Booker winner – despite its title – and remembers a steak so good it brought her to tears
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Interview with a Bookstore by Literary HubInterview with a Bookstore by Literary HubInterview with a Bookstore: Itinerant Literate, a bookstore on wheelsThe booksellers at Itinerant Literate operate from a trailer, currently parked in Charleston, South Carolina
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We explore memory and forgetting with a fictional artist who struggles with recall and a cultural historian examining the past to solve present troubles with data storage
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After Natasha Walter discussed women leads in spy fiction, Tom adds his own creative comment on the inventive and adaptive genre
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Deception is everywhere in nature, as plants and animals turn trickster in the hope of eating or avoiding being eaten. The evolutionary biologist Martin Stevens introduces some subtle strategies in the game of life
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US twins Matthew and Michael Dickman talk about the collection of poems they wrote in honour of their half-brother who killed himself
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Artists and authors have long celebrated the picturesque qualities of the English landscape, but there is a counter-tradition – particularly in children’s literature – that unearths the savage violence of nature
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With The City of Mirrors, The Passage’s author has reached the end of his bestselling vampire trilogy, which grew out of chats with his daughter. Now she has left home and he’s not sure what comes next
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Bestselling authors Rachel Abbott and Adam Croft joined us to answer your questions about how they achieved success as self-published authors – on everything from marketing, series v stand alone books and how to find the perfect agent
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