Karen Solie’s Wellwater wins TS Eliot poetry prize | TS Eliot prize for poetry

Karen Solie’s Wellwater wins TS Eliot poetry prize | TS Eliot prize for poetry

The Canadian poet Karen Solie has won the 2025 TS Eliot poetry prize for a collection of work, Wellwater, which explores the destruction of the natural world. Solie was announced as the... Read more »
Sex, death and parrots: Julian Barnes’s best fiction – ranked! | Books

Sex, death and parrots: Julian Barnes’s best fiction – ranked! | Books

10 Duffy (1980) Duffy is the first in a series of crime novels about a bisexual private eye that Barnes published under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. It came out the same year... Read more »
£50,000 ‘reader-led’ writing prize launched | Books

£50,000 ‘reader-led’ writing prize launched | Books

A new £50,000 writing prize that allows readers to select the shortlist from submitted manuscripts – and rewards them with cash prizes for their involvement – has been launched by the publishing... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Monday, January 19th

Daily Cartoon: Monday, January 19th

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How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’? | Technology

How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’? | Technology

In the last 15 years, a linked series of unprecedented technologies have changed the experience of personhood across most of the world. It is estimated that nearly 70% of the human population... Read more »
Tom Gauld cartoon on difficult New Year’s resolutions – cartoon

Tom Gauld cartoon on difficult New Year’s resolutions – cartoon

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Daily Cartoon: Monday, January 19th

Author Julian Barnes confirms new novel will be his last | Julian Barnes

The Booker prize-winning author, Julian Barnes, has confirmed his new novel, Departure(s), will be his last book, saying that he has the sense “that I’ve played all my tunes”. Barnes, who celebrates... Read more »
£50,000 ‘reader-led’ writing prize launched | Books

‘Read this and you will be happier’: experts pick the self-help books that really work | Books

Books to help you … Find love Chosen by Philippa PerryAmir Levine’s Secure, to be published in April, is grounded in attachment theory, in which there are four main styles of bonding:... Read more »
‘Act of family vengeance’: French defamation case highlights perils of writing autofiction | France

‘Act of family vengeance’: French defamation case highlights perils of writing autofiction | France

The Polish poet Czesław Miłosz is famously credited with the line: “When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.” In contemporary European literature, a book these days is... Read more »
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