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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X theguardian.com/media/2024/n…

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles

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Killing Time by Alan Bennett review – a cut above theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

Killing Time by Alan Bennett review – a cut above

From afternoon sherry to sex with the handyman in the lawnmower shed, Alan Bennett takes a wry look at lockdown life in a care home

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V13 by Emmanuel Carrère review – gripping chronicle of the 2015 Paris attacks trial theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

V13 by Emmanuel Carrère review – gripping chronicle of the 2015 Paris attacks trial

A chronicle of the largest criminal case in French history from a master of the genre

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‘This is a book we need now’: Sara Collins on choosing this year’s Booker winner theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

‘This is a book we need now’: Sara Collins on choosing this year’s Booker winner

After reading more than 150 books over seven months, the judges voted unanimously in favour of Samantha Harvey’s Orbital – which pulled them as far away as possible from our planet

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Samantha Harvey’s ‘beautiful and ambitious’ Orbital wins Booker prize theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

Samantha Harvey’s ‘beautiful and ambitious’ Orbital wins Booker prize 2024

The British author’s novel about astronauts on the International Space Station was chosen unanimously as the winner, says judging chair Edmund de Waal

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Hachette employees protest and quit over launch of conservative imprint theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

Hachette employees protest and quit over launch of conservative imprint

Basic Liberty, a publishing imprint launched in the wake of Trump’s election win, will be helmed by Thomas Spence, an editor associated with Project 2025 thinktank The Heritage Foundation

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Young adult books roundup – reviews theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

Young adult books roundup – reviews

A dark fantasy in the vein of Alan Garner, a raw but hopeful tale of teenage alcoholism, and a cosy romcom with a neurodivergent angle are among this month’s selection

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The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe review – a blue murder mystery theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe review – a blue murder mystery

Set during Liz Truss’s premiership, Coe’s multilayered study of how things quickly fell apart is a whodunnit with a villain hiding in plain sight

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‘Henry VIII is a serial killer and abuser’: why is Britain still so obsessed with the Tudors? theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

‘Henry VIII is a serial killer and abuser’: why is Britain still so obsessed with the Tudors?

England has long adopted the version of events informed by the Victorians’ biases and neuroses. But what is behind the flood of 21st-century retellings, including the new TV series The Mirror and the...

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Alexander Garvie obituary theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

Alexander Garvie obituary

Other lives: Glasgow University professor who specialised in the study of the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus

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Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey favourites to win 2024 Booker prize theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey favourites to win 2024 Booker prize

American author Everett and British writer Harvey have been given the shortest odds of winning the £50,000 literary prize but Ladbrokes say the ‘race is wide-open’

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Poem of the week: The Kurdish Musician by Mimi Khalvati theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

Poem of the week: The Kurdish Musician by Mimi Khalvati

An émigré player’s artistry sings through a London street, rising over many barriers

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We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson review – a return to God… by way of the Brothers Grimm and The Lion King theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson review – a return to God… by way of the Brothers Grimm...

The Canadian psychologist’s zealous exegesis of the Bible as a moral rulebook for life is long-winded and out of touch

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Her Lotus Year by Paul French review – Wallis Simpson’s Shanghai story theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

Her Lotus Year by Paul French review – Wallis Simpson’s Shanghai story

A new account of the months Simpson spent in China debunks the well-worn gossip about sexual adventures and opium addiction and even invites admiration for a ‘buccaneering’ woman

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The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami review – a lack of magic and meaning theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami review – a lack of magic and meaning

Murakami’s 15th novel retreads a form of magical realism that hasn’t evolved

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Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse review – the Nobel laureate’s mystical account of where we begin and end theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse review – the Nobel laureate’s mystical account of where we begin...

In this republished novella from 2000 about a fisherman and his son, the Norwegian writer captures the puzzlement and wonder of the human condition

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In brief: Who Owns Football?; The Caretaker; The Land in Winter theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

In brief: Who Owns Football?; The Caretaker; The Land in Winter

A deep dive into football’s puppet masters; an evocative slice of Americana; and another tour de force from Pure author Andrew Miller

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Booker prize 2024: and the winner is... you, the reader theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

Booker prize 2024: and the winner is... you, the reader

The judges have a hard task at this week’s Booker prize ceremony with five of the six shortlisted books worthy winners, though Percival Everett’s James – a retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn...

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Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing: ‘Working while grieving was consoling’ theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing: ‘Working while grieving was consoling’

The editor and author on completing the memoir by her late friend, Swedish writer Johanna Ekström, where she stands on the assisted dying bill and what she’s reading

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Remote islands free the imagination – but they also stir up fear theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

Remote islands free the imagination – but they also stir up fear

Bestselling author Paula Hawkins set her new book on a fictional tidal island. Here she examines the power and appeal of islands

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