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Call Out The Dogs Review: Anthony Eddolls Takes Agent Stilley From a Rome Murder to the Doors of the White House
The third Special Agent David Stilley adventure opens as a two-city murder case and finishes as a political thriller, written by an author who spent four decades in finance before turning to crime fiction from his home in Upcountry Maui.

Weekend Bookshelf: Upcoming New Titles for Your Soul
Five upcoming autumn 2026 titles on the power of writing, reflection and simplicity

Swan Song: Earl Spencer Tells His Sister's Story
A preview of Charles Spencer's forthcoming memoir Swan Song, Diana, My Sister, published this September ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of her death.

The Most Anticipated Memoirs This Autumn
This autumn's memoir crop reads less like a collection of celebrity stories and more like a season devoted to reckonings, a brother finally speaking for his sister, a journalist writing his way out of a Russian prison cell, a physicist's private letters made public for the first time.

The 10 Most Anticipated Books to Read This Autumn
Two very different reading moods define this autumn's list. Half the season is asking hard questions about how democracies actually fail. The other half is settling in with the people who have spent decades telling the truth about their own lives, often the funniest way possible.

The Best Upcoming Children's Books to Read This Autumn
This autumn's children's list has an unusually confident range to it, gentle picture books about loss and community sitting alongside twin detectives, a lizard with genuine comic timing, and a visual tribute to David Bowie built for readers who have never heard a note of his music.

Mahvash Sabet Wrote Her Prison Memoir From a Solitary Cell
Recognized abroad with a share of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize, the Iranian Baha'i poet finished one ten-year term only to be sentenced to another, and remains at risk today.

Poetry by Season: The Best Upcoming Poetry for This Autumn
Five collections publishing this autumn share a preoccupation that feels exactly right for the season, what survives a loss, a family reshaped, a familiar place seen freshly. Here is where to start.

Great and Unfortunate Things: The Memoir Jason Arday Leaves Behind
What Jason Arday's memoir Great and Unfortunate Things tells, and how critics have received it, following his death days after its US publication.

Lisa F. Crites Turns Her Own Cancer Recovery Into a Patented Invention and a New Memoir, Beautifully Unbroken
The medical journalist behind The Shower Shirt™, the first patented water-resistant garment for chest surgery patients, tells how the sudden loss of her mother, a breast cancer diagnosis, and a book deal she turned down twice became an Amazon Best Seller, with proceeds pledged to breast cancer support groups.
Destroying Books Is a Cultural Crime. Project Panama Destroyed Millions of Books with No Legal Consequence
Anthropic bought millions of books, cut them apart and pulped them after scanning. No court called it a crime. Destroying books is a cultural crime and no ruling changes that.

You Have a Story Worth Sharing- We are all made of stories but yours will define who we are
Every life contains a book. Some people write it.