Daily Cartoon: Friday, January 23rd

Daily Cartoon: Friday, January 23rd

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Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels | Children and teenagers

Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels | Children and teenagers

The Good Deed Dogs by Emma Chichester Clark, Walker, £12.99Three very good dogs’ attempts to help others keep backfiring with chaotic consequences – until they pull off a successful kitten rescue in... Read more »
British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals | Slavery

British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals | Slavery

The British crown and the navy expanded and protected the trade in enslaved African people for hundreds of years, unprecedented research into the monarchy’s historical ties to slavery has found. The Crown’s... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Friday, January 23rd

Workhorse by Caroline Palmer review – a Devil Wears Prada-style tale of ambition | Fiction

Last year the New York Times ran a quiz entitled “Could You Have Landed a Job at Vogue in the 90s?” It was based on the fabled four-page exam Anna Wintour had... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 22nd

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 22nd

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‘It’s about making reading as natural as breathing’: Malorie Blackman backs the National Year of Reading | Books

‘It’s about making reading as natural as breathing’: Malorie Blackman backs the National Year of Reading | Books

Last night, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, announced a £27.5m package for libraries. It’s the latest in a string of reading-focused government initiatives, the flagship being the education department’s National Year of... Read more »
Oscar nominations 2026: the full list

Oscar nominations 2026: the full list

All the nominees, from Sinners to One Battle After Another, for the 98th Academy Awards, which are due to take place on 15 March• Sinners becomes first film in history to earn... Read more »
Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels | Children and teenagers

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood review – getting through the day | Christopher Isherwood

At the start of A Single Man, George Falconer wakes up at home in the morning and drags himself despondently to the bathroom. There he stares at himself in the mirror, observing... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Friday, January 23rd

Val McDermid was assigned ‘sensitivity reader’ to cut offensive language from old books | Val McDermid

The crime writer Val McDermid has revealed she was assigned a “sensitivity reader” to remove language that could cause offence from her earlier works. The Scottish author has sold more than 19m... Read more »
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