Booker prize urged to consider name change over slavery link
News
Audible to turn all seven of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books into full-cast audiobooks
The books will be released sequentially, starting with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, with a full cast of yet-to-be-named actors and a ‘groundbreaking new soundscape’
Book of the day
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes review – follow your own path
Ruth Gilligan
A woman searching for solitude runs into her sisters in this brilliant, brainy tale
Autobiography and memoir
The Tale of a Wall by Nasser Abu Srour review – a Palestinian prisoner writes
Lydia Wilson
Fiction
Real Americans by Rachel Khong – the lottery of life
Chelsea Leu
‘The writer of Fifty Shades gave me tips’
Robinne Lee on her scorching bonkbuster The Idea of You
News
Rebel Wilson memoir to be published in UK with Sacha Baron Cohen passages redacted
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All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield review – from Banksy to banged up
Kathryn Hughes
The exhilarating story of an art fraudster’s downfall, by his former friend and partner
Society books
Against Landlords by Nick Bano review – valuable ideas for how to solve Britain’s housing crisis
Rowan Moore
In this flawed but powerful book, a housing lawyer argues that an abundance of private landlords, not a dearth of homes, is to blame for the miseries of ‘generation rent’
History books
Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa review – my ancestors’ role in the horror of apartheid
Karen Jennings
Autobiography and memoir
Knife by Salman Rushdie review – a life interrupted
Rachel Cooke
Politics books
Ten Years to Save the West by Liz Truss review – economical with the truth about her own downfall
Andrew Rawnsley
Autobiography and memoir
Bald by Stuart Heritage review – hair today, gone tomorrow
Simon Usborne
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The novelist and critic on finding inspiration in her Twitter timeline, why she found the middle-aged man in her new book easier to write than his daughter, and how she learned her craft through poetry
Sarah Perry
For much of my life, I loved God. The echo of that never fades
The Essex Serpent author on astronomy, her new novel Enlightenment and how her strict Baptist upbringing made its mark
Poet Jackie Kay
I could have been brought up by Tories!
Sunjeev Sahota
I’ve always been in labour movements – but I’m critical of identity politics
‘I’d love a scathing review’
Novelist Percival Everett on American Fiction and rewriting Huckleberry Finn
Michael Magee
There’s a disbelief at how I’ve ended up
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Regulars
The books of my life
Amor Towles: ‘When I reread Ulysses I found it insufferable. Don’t @ me’
Big idea
The big idea: what if dreaming is the whole point of sleep?
Rather than being an optional extra, dreams might be vital to our functioning
Where to start with
Where to start with: Patricia Highsmith
Thanks to Netflix’s moody adaptation, Ripley, there’s more awareness of Highsmith’s skills as an expert writer of guilt, ambivalence and moral dilemmas at odds with reality
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