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What Have I Done? by Ben Elton review – a curious mixture of insight and rampaging ego

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Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon review – his first novel in 12 years tunes into rising fascism in the US

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The fanfiction written on a notes app that’s become a bestseller – with a seven-figure film deal

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Poem of the week: An Explanation of Doily by Gwyneth Lewis

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Half Light by Mahesh Rao review – a tale of forbidden love in India

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Amity by Nathan Harris review – perceptive portrait of slavery’s aftermath

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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows by Steven Pinker review – communication breakdown

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Classics with added Yorkshire class: tributes to Tony Harrison

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Why I gave the world wide web away for free

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‘She wrote the best first line – and the most chilling stories’: Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier

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NoViolet Bulawayo wins the Best of Caine award

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Tony Harrison, poet and dramatist, dies aged 88

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‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published

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‘There was comedy at all times’: Andrew O’Hagan on 15 years of funny, frank and champagne-fuelled friendship with Edna O’Brien

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Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

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Cat On The Road To Findout by Yusuf/Cat Stevens review – fame, faith and charity

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My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende audiobook review – portrait of a fiercely independent young woman

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Venetian Vespers by John Banville review – a haunting honeymoon

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Slow Horses author Mick Herron says he knows how Jackson Lamb dies

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What’s With Baum? by Woody Allen review – the film-maker’s late-life first novel

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