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The best children’s books of 2025

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Five of the best translated fiction of 2025

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Poem of the week: Rich or Poor, or Saint and Sinner by Thomas Love Peacock

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Does ‘laziness’ start in the brain?

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‘I took literary revenge against the people who stole my youth’: Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu

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‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more

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From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers

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The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

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Tessa Hadley: ‘Uneasy books are good in uneasy times’

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Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting

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Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned

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A Particularly Nasty Case by Adam Kay audiobook review – a wayward doctor turns detective

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Luigi: The Making and the Meaning by John H Richardson review – sympathy for a devil?

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The Matchbox Girl by Alice Jolly review – horror, humanity and Dr Asperger

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£15,000 prize launched for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds

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The Artist by Lucy Steeds wins Waterstones book of the year

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Service by John Tottenham review – comic confessions of a grumpy bookseller

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Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani review – can you really rehabilitate Idi Amin?

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The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgård review – can this sprawling epic deliver on its promise?

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Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review – the charismatic philanderer who changed science

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