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May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry review – a dazzling puzzle-box of a debut

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‘It’s about making reading as natural as breathing’: Malorie Blackman backs the National Year of Reading

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Workhorse by Caroline Palmer review – a Devil Wears Prada-style tale of ambition

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On Censorship by Ai Weiwei review – are we losing the battle for free speech?

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A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood review

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‘There is a sense of things careening towards a head’: TS Eliot prize winner Karen Solie

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Vigil by George Saunders review – will a world-wrecking oil tycoon repent?

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Cameo by Rob Doyle review – a fantasy of literary celebrity in the culture war era

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Karen Solie’s Wellwater wins TS Eliot poetry prize

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£50,000 ‘reader-led’ writing prize launched

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Sex, death and parrots: Julian Barnes’s best fiction

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Poem of the week: Now, Mother, What’s the Matter? by Richard W Halperin

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Be More Bird by Candida Meyrick review – less soaring avian self-help than a parroting of tired cliches

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Departure(s) by Julian Barnes review – this final novel is a slippery affair

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Tom Gauld cartoon on difficult New Year’s resolutions

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How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’?

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Polyamory, regrets and revenge: changing the story on infidelity

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‘There is a moment of clarity that life would be better without alcohol’: what we can learn from addiction memoirs

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‘Read this and you will be happier’: experts pick the self-help books that really work

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This month’s best paperbacks: Anne Tyler, Jason Allen-Paisant and more

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