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Blog: Dooneen by Keith Ridgway review – uncanny visions of dark times in Dublin from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:00:07 +0100

Ireland is trembling with nascent social unrest in this labyrinthine tale of one man’s homecomingIrish author Keith Ridgway’s latest novel deals, both mis […]

Blog: ‘Beautiful and terrifying’: the best American LGBTQ+ books, chosen by Samuel R Delany, Kaveh Akbar, Eileen Myles and more from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:00:40 +0100

From 20th-century classics to little-known treasures, queer authors share their favorite books about LGBTQ+ life‘Sheer outrageousness’: writers on their fav […]

Blog: The Family Man by James Lasdun review – the killings that shocked America from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:00:38 +0100

Alex Murdaugh’s conviction for the murder of his wife and son was recently overturned. Where does the truth lie?In March 2023, 54-year-old Alex Murdaugh received t […]

Blog: Reader, I married him: couples tell us how books brought them together from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:36 +0100

From book club meet-cutes to shared English Literature lectures, romance has blossomed beyond the page for these bibliophilesDua Lipa and Callum Turner have been […]

Blog: Fantastic Kingdom by Helene von Bismarck review – an outsider’s guide to British politics from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:00:34 +0100

This stranger’s-eye-view of an eccentric nation promises insight but delivers only conventional wisdom‘Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot […]

Blog: Awake Awake by Fiona Mozley review – in pursuit of false memories from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:00:33 +0100

From the Booker-shortlisted author, a tantalisingly unreliable account of childhood, history and mental uncertaintyThe historian and novelist Fiona Mozley […]

Blog: The Leveret By Anna Goldreich review – a hare mends the pain of baby loss from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:00:50 +0100

This bold debut about a woman finding healing after a late miscarriage is written with utter convictionBirth. “A detaching, a loosening of something, then the p […]

Blog: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:00:52 +0100

A vivid and entertaining polemic on the economics of the tech revolution, filled with righteous ireAs former Google CEO Eric Schmidt could tell you, AI is a hard […]

Blog: M John Harrison: ‘If we met a real alien we’d have no clue what they thought’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:00:29 +0100

At 80, SF author M John Harrison is producing some of his best work. He talks about finding his voice, alien intelligence and the advice from Iain Banks that still […]

Arves Corral joined the group Thanet Creative: Writers

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:32:35 +0100

Jane Smith joined the group Thanet Creative: Writers

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:38:48 +0100

Blog: Ambivalence by Brian Dillon review – an odd man out from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:00:46 +0100

The critic’s memoir’s is a portrait in determination to go against the grain and ‘pursue a life in words and ideas’Brian Dillon lost his parents early, his mother […]

Blog: Wimmy Road Boyz by Sufiyaan Salam review – an electric debut set on Manchester’s Curry Mile from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:00:44 +0100

Written in breathless multilingual prose, this coming-of-age meets state-of-the-nation novel is an incredible literary performanceThree twentysomethings “drive a […]

Blog: What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:39:16 +0100

Madeleine Thien, Sufiyaan Salam and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the commentsLately I have loved […]

Blog: My Only Boy by Rosa Rankin-Gee review – a darkly funny near-future dystopia from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:00:42 +0100

A surprising romance is set against a backdrop of climate crisis, political instability and corporate corruption in this bleak but witty novelRosa Rankin-Gee […]

Blog: Tonight the Music Seems So Loud by Sathnam Sanghera review – a heartbreaking portrait of George Michael from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:00:40 +0100

This affecting exploration of the troubled genius’s impact is packed with anecdote, sharp analysis and social contextIn 1998, George Michael was arrested for p […]

Blog: I devoured classic novels as a teenager. In a world of distractions, can I relearn how to read them? from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:38 +0100

In less than a decade, surrounded by screens, I lost my ability to read some of the best books ever written. But, inspired by the Guardian’s 100 best novels list, I […]

Blog: Land by Maggie O’Farrell review – an ambitious story of mapmaking in Ireland from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:00:09 +0100

Set in the aftermath of the famine, the Hamnet author’s family saga folds in myth and folklore‘His father was ever a man of few words,” begins Maggie O’Far […]

Blog: Are ‘mind children’ the future of reproduction? from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Sun, 31 May 2026 11:00:47 +0100

Forget dirty nappies. In Silicon Valley, there’s increasing chatter about virtual offspringA few months ago, an AI researcher from Europe attended a dinner party i […]

Blog: Virginia Evans: ‘I loved books about things that can’t exist’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Fri, 29 May 2026 09:00:46 +0100

The Women’s prize-shortlisted novelist on taking inspiration from John Steinbeck, Joan Didion and Jhumpa Lahiri, and weeping through Little Women in her 30sMy e […]

Blog: The best recent translated fiction – review roundup from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Fri, 29 May 2026 08:00:45 +0100

Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami; All Flesh by Ananda Devi; The White Desert by Luis López Carrasco; The Home of the Drowned by Elin Anna LabbaSisters in Yellow […]

Blog: Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest review – painfully earnest tale of trauma and transition from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:00:45 +0100

An ex-offender searches for meaning and beauty in the second novel from the spoken-word performerKae Tempest’s new novel is dedicated to “you”, the reader. It also […]

Blog: This Dark Night by Deborah Lutz review – Emily Brontë’s world from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:00:43 +0100

Tactile details and a no-nonsense approach make this biography a refreshing change from more lurid fareBoth Emily Brontë and her only novel Wuthering Heights […]

Blog: Zadie Smith: ‘I don’t know when I read men any more’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:30:50 +0100

At a talk on her latest essay collection, Dead and Alive, Smith said she ‘sometimes’ reads male novelists, but more often seeks the wisdom of older female wri […]

Blog: Famesick by Lena Dunham review – when celebrity causes side-effects from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:00:38 +0100

The Girls creator has endured brickbats and breakdowns – but she doesn’t always make it easy to feel sorry for herAt the end of last year, Netflix released Too Muc […]

Blog: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout review – readers will delight in these new characters from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:00:37 +0100

The Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton author branches out with the tale of a Massachusetts teacher haunted by traumaThe American author Elizabeth Strout famously […]

Blog: ‘It’s still a no-go area’: German author Matthias Jügler on the trauma surrounding the GDR’s ‘stolen children’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:00:16 +0100

The reaction among officials in Germany to his bestselling novel has been hostile. As Mayfly Season is published in the UK, its author explains whyA few weeks after […]

Blog: Do stronger borders ever work? from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:00:15 +0100

Leaders have thrown up walls and barriers throughout history – but their effects are unpredictableFour millennia ago, a Sumerian king, his frontier beset by n […]

Blog: Joe Dunthorne: ‘Growing up in Swansea, I developed an allergy to Dylan Thomas’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:00:35 +0100

The author on feeling Thomas Hardy’s pain, being duped by Donna Tartt and how reading his sister’s copy of Trainspotting made him want to writeMy earliest rea […]

Blog: A Family Matter by Claire Lynch audiobook review – an award-winning story of homophobia and divorce from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:00:15 +0100

Dual timelines reveal the real reason a mother was forced to leave her daughter in the 80s, in this Nero prize-winning novel inspired by real-life eventsThe debut […]

Blog: Communion by Jon Doyle review – a charged debut about sin and solace from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:01:02 +0100

A man who meant to be a priest is faced with a moral crossroads in this ambitious and affecting first novelJon Doyle’s debut novel tells the story of Mack O […]

Blog: The Fallen by Louise Brangan review – an enraging account of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:00:01 +0100

The horrifying story of the Catholic-run institutions that incarcerated thousands of women and girlsMany readers, and surely most Irish readers, will finish this […]

Blog: When an author says she had to decline a $175,000 prize, what does it say about the publishing world? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:00:02 +0100

Helen DeWitt turning down the Windham-Campbell literary award caused controversy. But her bold act highlights that such prizes aren’t always as meritocratic as t […]

Blog: Michael Rosen wins Hans Christian Andersen award from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:24:58 +0100

The former children’s laureate missed the announcement of the award in Bologna due to post-Brexit passport rule changesMichael Rosen, the poet and author known f […]

Blog: On Memoir by Blake Morrison review – lessons in life writing from a master from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:00:04 +0100

Don’t be fooled by the A-Z treatment – this thoroughgoing guide asks deep questions about the art of autobiography“I’ve had a life and I’ve also had a life as a […]

Blog: My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy review – wonderfully entertaining from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:01:02 +0100

Biography mingles with fiction as Levy explores the avant-garde writer through the story of three female friends in ParisThe narrator of Deborah Levy’s witty s […]

Blog: Tucker Carlson to launch publishing imprint with books by Russell Brand and Milo Yiannopoulos from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:05:26 +0100

Former Fox News host says publishing house Skyhorse ‘looking for books that nobody else will publish’Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is set to launch his own […]

Blog: Ghost-Eye by Amitav Ghosh review – a climate-crisis novel let down by its prose from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:00:39 +0100

A reincarnation mystery drives this exploration of spiritual interconnectedness in a globalised worldWhat happens when a novelist cares more about their plot, or […]

Blog: Walking Shadow by Greg Doran review – Shakespeare’s healing power from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:00:38 +0100

After the death of his husband, Antony Sher, the former RSC director embarks on a quest to see every First FolioThis is really two books in one. The first part […]

Blog: Is AI the greatest art heist in history? from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:00:17 +0100

New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with itIn 2026, its easy to see why generative AI is bad. The internet has n […]

Blog: The Barbecue at No 9 by Jennie Godfrey audiobook review – secrets and lies in suburbia from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:00:52 +0000

Gemma Whelan and Stephen Mangan are among the cast in this multi-voiced tale of family tensions and trauma, set during the 1985 Live Aid charity concert It is July […]

Blog: A Queer Inheritance by Michael Hall review – the National Trust’s LGBTQ history revealed from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:00:03 +0000

It’s recently been accused of turning ‘woke’ – but the institution has been gay since the beginning, argues this deeply researched bookWhen it emerged that the Nat […]

Blog: Mare by Emily Haworth-Booth review – profound story of a woman’s love for a horse from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:00:01 +0000

Where does it come from, this passion for an animal that isn’t even hers? An astonishing debut delves into deep truths about love, motherhood and careMare, Emily H […]

Blog: Derek Owusu and Seán Hewitt shortlisted for Dylan Thomas prize from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:53 +0000

Six writers are now finalists for the prestigious annual prize, which awards £20,000 to a writer aged 39 or underDerek Owusu and Seán Hewitt are among the writers s […]

Blog: Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave review – a will-they-won’t-they queer romance from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:00:28 +0000

Two women fall into and out of each other’s lives over decades, in a moving examination of love and choicesGiven that novels are routinely touted as the new v […]

Blog: This month’s best paperbacks: David Szalay, Han Kang and more from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:00:27 +0000

Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some wonderful new paperbacks, from a Booker-winning tale of one man’s life to a gossipy account of the golden a […]

Blog: When the Forest Breathes by Suzanne Simard review – the Indiana Jones of trees returns from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:00:26 +0000

The author of Finding the Mother Tree is back with an inspiring call to the next generation of ecologistsIt’s 2021, and Suzanne Simard is in a police vehicle, b […]

Blog: Howl by Howard Jacobson review – a tragicomic portrait of a Jewish man’s despair from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:00:12 +0000

A suburban headteacher navigates antisemitism in Gaza-outraged London in Jacobson’s latest novelHoward Jacobson writes characters at their wits’ end; those cha […]

Blog: The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby review – the story of the man who changed the world from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:00:10 +0000

A journalist charts the progress of AI pioneer Demis Hassabis from child chess prodigy to Nobel prize winnerIt was March 2016, and at the Four Seasons Hotel in […]

Blog: Shahrnush Parsipur: ‘The women of Iran will cause the fall of the Islamic Republic’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:00:24 +0000

As her banned 1989 novella, Women Without Men, is published for the first time in the UK, the Iranian author looks back on a life of resistance and repressionAs I […]