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‘You don’t really see it in fiction’: how one novelist brought ‘Detty December’ party season back from Ghana

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Cape Fever by Nadia Davids review – a power struggle between mistress and maid

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The Zorg by Siddharth Kara review – scarcely imaginable horrors at sea

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Poem of the week: The Man in the Wind by Anne Stevenson

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The English House by Dan Cruickshank review – if walls could talk

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This Is Where the Serpent Lives by Daniyal Mueenuddin – set to be a standout novel of 2026

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‘It’s no romcom’: why the real Wuthering Heights is too extreme for the screen

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Could AI relationships actually be good for us?

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The Cat by Georges Simenon review – Maigret author’s tale of a toxic marriage

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Tom Gauld on 27 December – cartoon

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The books to look out for in 2026

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Books to look out for in 2026 – fiction

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The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

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‘Like Kafka by way of Pedro Almodóvar’: 10 debut novels to look out for in 2026

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Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell audiobook review – the life and loss of the woman behind the Bard

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Ice by Jacek Dukaj review – a dazzling journey to an alternate Siberia

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Books to look out for in 2026 – nonfiction

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Converts by Melanie McDonagh review – the road to Rome Catholicism’s unlikely 20th-century resurgence

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Killing the Dead by John Blair review – a gloriously gruesome history of vampires

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Charlie Mackesy’s Always Remember is Christmas No 1 in the UK’s bestsellers chart

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