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Blog: Tom Gauld on modern folk horrors of the British Isles – cartoon from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoContinue reading…
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Blog: We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown review – you’ll read nothing else like it this year from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoThis exhilarating debut about working-class girls growing up in the hope-starved atmosphere of a small northern English city feels essentialSometimes you need to […]
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Blog: US authors’ copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft combined in New York with newspaper actions from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoCalifornia cases over AI trainers’ use of work by writers including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Chabon transferred to consolidate with New York suits from John G […]
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Blog: My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss audiobook review – a life shaped by anorexia and literature from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoThe Scottish actor Morven Christie draws out the forlorn beauty of the prose in this haunting memoirA haunting exploration of a life shaped by literature and […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘The Darkening’ by Kathryn Bevis from
Seren in the group Seren Books 11 months agoThis week’s Friday Poem is ‘The Darkening’ by Kathryn Bevis from her collection ‘The Butterfly House’.
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Blog: Anthony Horowitz: ‘I’m too nervous to reread The Lord of the Rings – it might reveal how jaded I’ve become’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoThe Alex Rider author on being put off Dickens for a decade, why he reads poetry in the mornings, and how reading Sherlock Holmes made him want to be a crime […]
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What’s the best software for organising your writing? in the forum Aspiring Authors 11 months agoWhat’s the best software for organising your writing? I’m using LibreOffice. Is there something better? Something that understands chapters and subsections?
Any one?
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Blog: The Possibility of Tenderness by Jason Allen-Paisant review – a Jamaican childhood from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoThe poet and writer returns to the May Day mountains in a gentle rumination on family and natureGo these days to any independent bookshop or art gallery or zine […]
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Blog: Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo review – a gender-swapped Moby-Dick from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoA runaway orphan from coastal Kent is the protagonist in this tightly plotted reimagining of Herman Melville’s whaling classic“‘And now here I was, an accid […]
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Where to start reading in the forum Brandon Sanderson Fans 11 months ago -
Blog: The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 shortlist is here – these are my must-reads in the running from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 11 months agoFrom coming-of-age stories to sexual awakenings, these six titles have been recognised as future classics
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Blog: Scandal-hit creative writing website NaNoWriMo to close after 20 years from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoThe US nonprofit, whose online community encouraged members to write a novel in a month, has been rocked by controversy in recent yearsNaNoWriMo, the US-based […]
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Blog: Yoko by David Sheff review – a queasily one-sided defence from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoThe artist and musician is a brilliant subject for an epic, in-depth biography, but this is merely hagiographyIn 1966 a woman sat down at the Destruction in Art […]
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Blog: This month’s best paperbacks: Elif Shafak, Richard Ayoade and more from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoLooking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some brilliant new paperbacks, from an engrossing study of Chinese women to a fun, loveable novel Continue reading…
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Blog: The Strange Case of Jane O by Karen Thompson Walker review – an impossible tale from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoA New York librarian is discovered unconscious in a park with no memory, in a mystery that challenges consensual realityWe first meet Jane O in the consulting room […]
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Blog: Miranda July and Elizabeth Strout shortlisted for the Women’s prize for fiction from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoAmerican authors of All Fours and Tell Me Everything are competing for the 30th award alongside four other novels highlighting ‘the importance of human c […]
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Blog: Women’s Prize for Fiction unveils 2025 shortlist featuring four debut novelists tackling identity, history and self-discovery from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 11 months agoThe category is dominated by new voices, joined by previous nominees Miranda July and Elizabeth Stout
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Blog: Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold review: the real Cora Crippen from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoThe author of The Five, about the Ripper murders, turns her attention to another tragically misunderstood victimIn the canon of British true crime, the case of Dr […]
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Blog: Bullaun Press wins Republic of Consciousness prize for ‘rollicking picaresque’ novel from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoIrish publisher receives award for small presses for Gaëlle Bélem’s There’s a Monster Behind the DoorIrish publisher Bullaun Press has won the Republic of Consc […]
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Blog: What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in March from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoAuthors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the commentsWhen HHhH by Laurent Binet came out in […]
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Blog: The big idea: should you trust your gut? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months ago‘Follow your instincts’ has become a modern mantra. But what if they lead you astray? ‘What should I do?” Whether openly stated or implicit, this is the questio […]
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Blog: Gatsby by Jane Crowther; The Gatsby Gambit by Claire Anderson-Wheeler – Jay’s eternal hold from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoTwo enjoyable debut novels put fresh meat on Fitzgerald’s deathless classic – one a modern-day retelling in which Gatsby becomes a female influencer, another a pac […]
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Semicolons in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 11 months, 1 week agoSemicolons
I stumbled upon The Word Man talking about semicolons and had to share it.