The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
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We Do a Lot of Sneering at “Virtue Signaling.” It May Be Time to Rethink Our Approach.
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Backtalker by Kimberlé Crenshaw review – the audacity of hope
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Cast Away by Francesca de Tores review – gripping portrait of the real-life Robinson Crusoe
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Alex Murdaugh’s Murder Convictions Were Just Overturned. The Reason Why Is Wild.
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce calls for children’s reading to be treated as a ‘right’, in final laureate lecture
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The Latest Overblown Literary Outrage Is Here, and It’s a Real Doozy
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A Fox News Host Wrote a Bestselling Romance About Liberal Women Falling for Republican Men. I Read It So You Don’t Have To.
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Seascraper by Benjamin Wood audiobook review – a shore thing
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Sherlock Holmes review – the game is afoot, a stone’s throw from Baker Street
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Why food is the real star of my new novel
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My Father’s Hidden Life Was in a Box in His Office. By the Time I Found It, It Was Almost Too Late.
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The Correspondent by Virginia Evans review – immensely enjoyable return of the epistolary novel
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Weimar by Katja Hoyer review – the town that changed Germany
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‘Stunned and shocked’: Ingrid Horrocks wins top prize at New Zealand’s Ockham awards for her fiction debut
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How Do the Sex Scenes in Off Campus Stack Up to Heated Rivalry? Let’s Evaluate.
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#MeToo-themed novel wins inaugural reader-led award worth £50,000
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JH Prynne obituary
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Do we judge people by the way they sound? How accents shape our lives
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Stella prize 2026: Lee Lai becomes first non-binary person and first graphic novelist to win with Cannon
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Vocal Break by Lauren Elkin review – a celebration of the female voice
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What the Flock is Sheep Detectives?
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Uprising by Tahmima Anam review – a fiery novel of female rebellion
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Jon Krakauer Wishes He Never Climbed Mount Everest—and Never Wrote Into Thin Air
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The 100 best novels of all time
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Tell us: what are your top three novels of all time?
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High and Low by Amanda Craig review – will Britain boil over?
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The Savage Landscape by Cal Flyn review – a carnival of a book about Earth’s wild places
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16 romantasy books for fans of 'A Court of Thorns and Roses' by Sarah J. Maas
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John of John by Douglas Stuart review – will a father and son come out to each other?
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Tom Gauld on Chaucer’s first unboxing video – cartoon
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‘I don’t know what could top that’: debut author Jem Calder on being discovered by Sally Rooney
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What happens when we lose a language?
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Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov review – the long view
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‘They’re trying to narrow the worldview of young people’: how book bans are on the rise in the US
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The rise of the literary nepo baby? The children of famous novelists on following in their parents’ footsteps
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A Hit New Show Is the Ideal Watch for Jane Austen Fans
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The Guardian view on writers’ retirements: the sense of an ending | Editorial
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‘She made Mondays something to look forward to’: readers pay tribute to Carol Rumens, Guardian’s Poem of the week columnist
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The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher review – Hilary Mantel tale is provocative, powerful theatre
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Lily King: ‘I couldn’t get past the first 20 pages of Pride and Prejudice’
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This Book May Cause Side Effects by Helen Pilcher review – can you think yourself sick?
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‘Being human helps’: despite rise of AI is there still hope for Europe’s translators?
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Goodbye, My Love by Yumna Kassab review – biting reflections on the dissolution of a marriage
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Her First Book Was a Bestseller That Became a Controversial Hit Movie. After 17 Years, She’s Back With a New Novel.
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Australia has been a sanctuary from the populist right’s onslaught. Is it now living on borrowed time?
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The Pretender by Jo Harkin audiobook review – sprightly historical political skulduggery
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He Spends His Days Tracking America’s Wildest Conspiracy Theorists. What He’s Seeing Lately Is Eye-Popping.
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Report shows banned non-fiction books doubled over last school year in US
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‘We’re remixing her library for a new medium’: the video games capturing the happy-sad spirit of Tove Jansson’s Moomins
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Solace House by Will Maclean review – immensely fun gothic horror with a psychedelic twist
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JM Coetzee declines to attend Jerusalem writers festival over Israel’s ‘genocidal campaign in Gaza’
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She’s the Author of a Bestselling Book About Tradwives. She Knows Why They’re So Popular.
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The 5 best Colleen Hoover books — and 5 you can skip
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Best Australian books out in May: Robert Forster’s crime caper, a ‘superb’ new novel and Periodic Bitch
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Magic review – spellbinding standoff between Houdini and Conan Doyle
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‘Heat, floods and droughts make men more violent to women’: Natasha Walter on eco-feminism in a world on fire
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Young King: revealing book shines light on Martin Luther King Jr’s early days
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What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton review – shyness, obsession and the joy of karaoke
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Lady C by Guy Cuthbertson review – how Lady Chatterley’s Lover rocked Britain
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Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training
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Carol Rumens, poet and the Guardian’s poem of the week columnist, dies aged 81
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In this machine age we must hold on to imperfect writing. It is not flawed. It is human | Alex Reszelska
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Gun-toting drunks, boy-eating sharks and bloodsucking babies: the violent, brilliant stories of Eric Walrond
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It’s a Common Pastime That’s Often Considered Harmless Fun. One Woman’s Story Should Serve as a Warning.
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It Was the Crime Saga That Captivated Millions. A New Book Provides Some Fresh Insight.
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Menopause is tough. But it’s fantastic being a woman in her 60s
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The Given World by Melissa Harrison review – a stunning tale of rural life for an era of ecological crisis
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Australian author Craig Silvey pleads guilty to possessing and distributing child exploitation material
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