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10 August 2024

  • film still with woman in fantastical clothes standing with two dragons behind her

    Can the Game of Thrones universe ever return to greatness?

    An underwhelming end to the second season of frustrating prequel series House of the Dragon has fans wondering what’s next

9 August 2024

  • Woman reading a book

    The joy of sexy fiction, by women for women

    Letters: Readers respond to a piece by Zoe Williams in which she reflects on reading smut and notes how attitudes have changed
  • Rae leaves her hospital bed to enter a fantasy in Long Live Evil.

    Science fiction roundup
    The best recent science fiction and fantasy – reviews roundup

    Extremophile by Ian Green; Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan; Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova; The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey; Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts
  • Man walks past cars in Dublin

    Book of the day
    Ravelling by Estelle Birdy review – a gutsy coming-of-age debut

    This is a beautifully observed portrait of five young men growing up on the edge of Dublin’s underworld

8 August 2024

  • Book review Ella Baxter

    Australian book reviews
    Woo Woo by Ella Baxter review – an art world satire brimming with fury and flair

  • picture of a couple drinking coffee

    Bonding by Mariel Franklin review – smart satire of tech elites

7 August 2024

  • Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively in It Ends with Us.

    It Ends with Us review – Blake Lively anchors glossy romance adaptation

  • A couple in a roof garden, looking out over the city

    The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş review – everyday grace

  • Visions of the Tigris in There Are Rivers in the Sky.

    There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak review – story of a raindrop

  • Pat Barker.

    Book of the day
    The Voyage Home by Pat Barker review – a brilliant finale to the Trojan war trilogy

6 August 2024

  • 2023 Cheltenham Literature Festival<br>CHELTENHAM, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 7: Kate Atkinson, English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She is known for creating the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series Case Histories, attends the 2023 Cheltenham Literature Festival on October 7, 2023 in Cheltenham, England. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

    Thrillers of the month
    Crime and thrillers of the month – review

  • Zoe Williams reads romance literature.

    My weeks of reading hornily: steamy book sales have doubled – and I soon found out why

5 August 2024

  • Novelist Ursula Parrott

    Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott review – Bridget Jones in the jazz age

  • A depiction of the Great Flood from the Epic of Gilgamesh<br>Illustration of a depiction of the Great Flood from the Epic of Gilgamesh

    There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak review – water, water everywhere

4 August 2024

  • Planeta Awards 2014<br>BARCELONA, SPAIN - OCTOBER 15: Rosa Regas attends the '63th Premio Planeta' Literature Awards at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya on October 15, 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Miquel Benitez/Getty Images)

    Rosa Regàs obituary

  • San Miguel de Allende, Benito Huarez park in Zona Centro in historic city center<br>RM396K San Miguel de Allende, Benito Huarez park in Zona Centro in historic city center

    Rosarita by Anita Desai – a luminous search for a mother

  • Horse and foal in a field in the foreground with verdant landscape in the background stretching out to a mountain range.

    Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan review – old grudges die hard in rural Ireland

  • Edna O’Brien.

    ‘She did not suffer a fool or hypocrite and loved a good laugh’: novelist Edna O’Brien

  • The Garden by Clare Beams review – Mother Nature’s mystical powers

  • In brief: The Newsmongers; The Night in Venice; Vital Organs – review

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