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  • Allan Ahlberg

    Allan Ahlberg
    ‘No one could compete’: readers remember the magic of Allan Ahlberg’s stories

    Guardian readers
    A godsend to teachers winning children over to books, they have also provided precious shared family fun and ‘jolts of warmth and home’
  • Nicola Barker

    Book of the day
    TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker review – satire that sees right through you

    Sandra Newman
  • ‘Progress propaganda’: Adam and Eve in a painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder.

    History books
    Progress by Samuel Miller McDonald review – humanity’s greatest myth?

    Pratinav Anil
  • Illustration of a person steering a ship

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Sea-Fever by John Masefield

  • A 19th-century portrait of Samuel Pepys by William Breakspeare.

    Book of the day
    The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – journal of a predator

    Kathryn Hughes
  • Andrev Walden

    Fiction
    Bloody Awful in Different Ways by Andrev Walden review – darkly funny Swedish autofiction

    Rebecca Wait
  • Meryl Streep as Clarissa Vaughan, a modern-day Mrs Dalloway in The Hours (2002).

    Essay
    Caleb Azumah Nelson: ‘Virginia Woolf’s London is the London I know’

What to read

  1. Summer reading

    Books
    Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now

  2. Composite image for Best Paperbacks July 2025

    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Deborah Levy, David Nicholls and more

  3. Covers for Hunted, Rapture's Road and Soldier Sailor

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July

Non-fiction reviews

  • Andrea Long Chu.

    Literary criticism
    Authority: Essays on Being Right by Andrea Long Chu review – scorching hot takes

    Houman Barekat
  • Gwyneth Paltrow at the 2011 Venice Film festival.

    Biography books
    Gwyneth: The Biography by Amy Odell review – Gwyn and bear it

    Emma Brockes
  • Crowd of people, blurred motion, city lights and supermoonGettyImages-1284022060

    Science and nature books
    After the Spike by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso review – the truth about population

    Farrah Jarral
  • The shah and his wife arriving in Egypt in 1979.

    History books
    King of Kings by Scott Anderson review – how the last shah of Iran sealed his own fate

    John Simpson

Fiction & poetry reviews

  1. a bird on a branch

    Poetry roundup
    The best recent poetry – review roundup

    Rebecca Tamás
  2. Rosalind Belben.

    Fiction
    Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben review – rivals anything by Virginia Woolf

    Melissa Harrison
  3. Swedish Elkhound

    Fiction in translation
    When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén review – a novel anyone will take to heart

    Patrick Gale
  4. John Niven

    Fiction
    The Fathers by John Niven review – class satire with grit

    James Smart

Children's and YA books

  1. A detail from put Your Shoes On by Polly Dunbar.

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  2. Wild by Katya Balen, illustrated by Gill Smith.

    Children's books
    Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  3. gozzle

    Children and teenagers
    The best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  4. Padraig Kenny's chapter book After

    Children's books
    The best new chapter books

    Kitty Empire

Interviews

  1. Author Paula Bomer

    Interview
    Paula Bomer: ‘If you describe yourself as a victim, you’re dismissed’

    Megan Nolan
  2. Barbara Kingsolver, photographed in Pennington Gap, Virginia.

    Interview
    ‘The damage is terrifying’: Barbara Kingsolver on Trump, rural America and the recovery home funded by her hit novel

    Hannah Marriott
  3. Yael van der Wouden.

    Women's prize for fiction
    Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’

Regulars

  • Lucy Foley.

    The books of my life
    Lucy Foley: ‘Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging didn’t talk down to teenage girls’

  • Elia-Barbieri---The-Guardian-Saturday---26-July-2025----the-right-not-to-be-manipulated-RGB-web

    Big idea
    Why we need a right not to be manipulated

  • Roger Butler.

    Audiobook of the week
    The Light of Day by Christopher Stephens and Louise Radnofsky audiobook review – a pioneer of gay liberation

  • Illustration of a person steering a ship

    Poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Sea-Fever by John Masefield

You may have missed

  1. Kiran Desai, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2006

    Comment
    This year’s Booker prize longlist looks in new directions

    Justine Jordan
  2. Poet Max Wallis

    Interview
    ‘How can I find meaning from the ruins of my life?’: the little magazine with a life-changing impact

    Suzi Feay
  3. Elia Barbieri - The Guardian Saturday - 26 July 2025 Books Cover - More Sex

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

    Lara Feigel

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