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More sex please, we’re bookish: the rise of the x-rated novel

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

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Gurnaik Johal: ‘I had no idea Zadie Smith was such a big deal!’

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Fair by Jen Calleja review – on the magic of translation

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‘A novel to be swept away by’: Lucy Steeds wins Waterstones debut fiction prize for The Artist

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Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis audiobook review – a sharp comedy about Islamic State brides

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Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt review – a warmly comic saga of male friendship

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Groundwater by Thomas McMullan review – a lesson in foreboding

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The Lost Elms by Mandy Haggith review – cultural history of a noble tree

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‘Look how well-read I am!’ How ‘books by the metre’ add the final touch to your home – or your image

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Summer of Our Discontent by Thomas Chatterton Williams reivew – a muddled take on US race, politics and class

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The Empire of Forgetting by John Burnside review – last words from an essential poet of our age

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Tom Gauld on holiday packing – cartoon

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Poem of the week: Salt, Snow, Earth by Naomi Foyle

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The Parallel Path by Jenn Ashworth review – a soul-searching walk across England

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Father Figure by Emma Forrest review – a slippery tale of teenage obsession

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‘Coupledom is very oppressing’: Swedish author Gun-Britt Sundström on the revival of her cult anti-marriage novel

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Should we ban opinion polls?

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‘My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US?’

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The best recent crime and thrillers – roundup

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