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Richard E Grant Has Written Four Books, and the Memoir of His Wife's Last Year Is the One to Read First
As The Celebrity Traitors brings him a new audience, a guide to his two film diaries, his Hollywood novel and A Pocketful of Happiness, and the order to read them in.
Dolly Parton's Picture Books for Children, and How UK Families Can Still Get Her Free Books Every Month
Five picture books carry her name, from Coat of Many Colors to three Billy the Kid stories, and the Imagination Library she founded is still posting a free book to children under five across the UK.
Ars Poeticas Won the 2026 Pulitzer for Poetry by Asking What Poems Can Do in Dark Times
Juliana Spahr writes six poems about why poetry still matters in an age of ecological crisis and political anger, and finds her answer in coral, pop songs and comradeship.
Whale Harbor, GMA's November Book Club Pick, Follows Eleven Irish Brothers Scattered From Connemara to Montana: A Guide for Book Clubs
Mary Beth Keane's family saga is out in the US now and in the UK as Whale Harbour on 5th November. What it is about, why it suits a book club, and ten questions to bring to your meeting.
Cello's Gate, the Self-Published Sky-Pirate Heist Readers Made a Hit, Arrives in Hardback From Simon & Schuster and Hachette
Readers found Maurice Africh's treasure hunt before the big publishers did. This week it gets the hardback treatment Dungeon Crawler Carl earned the same way.
Madeline McKnight Signs Off Gives a Dying Wall Street Analyst One Last Deal: A Museum for the Witch of Wall Street
Just out, Evan Brooke's debut novel sends a sharp-tongued former analyst and her young nurse into a race to honour Hetty Green, the richest woman of the Gilded Age.
Koschei the Deathless in A Court of Splintered Harmony Comes From the Slavic Folk Tale That Hides His Death Inside an Egg
Before A Court of Forgotten Melody arrives on 12th January, here is the old folk tale behind the villain of ACOTAR and the books where you can read it.
Things in Nature Merely Grow Won the 2026 Pulitzer for Memoir With Yiyun Li's Account of Losing Her Two Sons
Yiyun Li writes about the deaths of both her sons with a clarity that refuses easy comfort, and finds a way to keep living.
Waterstones and Barnes & Noble Booksellers Picked Eight of the Same Books for Book of the Year 2026
Booksellers on both sides of the Atlantic voted for Land, London Falling, The Book of Birds and five more. The full Waterstones shortlist of 20, and the dates both winners are named.
The Booker Prize 2026 Winner Is Named on 9th November: How to Watch and Which Book the Bookmakers Favour
The six-book Booker race ends at Old Billingsgate next Monday. When the announcement goes out, where to follow it, and what the betting says about The Disappearers, John of John and May We Feed the King.
The 16 Spring 2027 Books Left Uncertain by Catapult's Closure, Title by Title
Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull and Hawthorne stopped operating on 30th October. These are the new books they had scheduled from January to April, and what readers who preordered them can do.
Pride and Pleasure Won the 2026 Pulitzer for Biography by Bringing the Schuyler Sisters Out of Hamilton's Shadow
Amanda Vaill gives Angelica and Eliza Schuyler the full biography Broadway only hinted at, and tells their story in the present tense.