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Poem of the week: Leaves by Frederic Manning

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Bread of Angels: A Memoir, by Patti Smith review – a wild ride with the poet of punk

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Tom Gauld on writing a masterpiece – cartoon

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Could urban farming feed the world?

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‘Ambition is a punishing sphere for women’: author Maggie Nelson on why Taylor Swift is the Sylvia Plath of her generation

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‘I had a year to write it from scratch’: the 2025 Booker finalists on the stories behind their novels

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Lipstick, manicures ... and fascism: the ugliness behind the $450bn beauty industry

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The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

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In Love With Love by Ella Risbridger review – a sexy celebration of romantic fiction

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The Transformations by Andrew Pippos review – a tender study of an ordinary man doing his best

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Dear England: Lessons in Leadership by Gareth Southgate review – an exercise in passive-aggressive self-justification

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Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen review – a hypnotic tale of the sea cow’s extinction

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CD Rose awarded the 2025 Goldsmiths prize

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling audiobook review – an all-star outing

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‘I’m never surprised when I read about a woman murdering a man’: Helen Garner on her Baillie Gifford prize-winning diaries

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Other People’s Fun by Harriet Lane review – darkly comic tale of envy and revenge in the Insta age

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Wings by Paul McCartney review – a brilliant story of post-Beatles revival

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Helen Garner’s diaries win 2025 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction

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Alan Hollinghurst wins David Cohen lifetime award for ‘pioneering’ novels

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Sara Pascoe’s novel wins inaugural Jilly Cooper award

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