Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller review – a blend of social realism and gothic horror | Fiction

Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller review – a blend of social realism and gothic horror | Fiction

Claire Fuller is fascinated by corpses: by the moment when a supple, beloved body turns into inert, heavy matter. In her masterful 2021 Costa winner Unsettled Ground, adult twins veer between pathos and gawky... Read more »
Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller review – a blend of social realism and gothic horror | Fiction

Children’s reading should prioritise pleasure over learning, says laureate | Children

The children’s laureate, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, has urged the government to prioritise pleasure over learning in children’s reading. Giving evidence to MPs on the education committee, which is investigating the decline in reading... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Friday, May 22nd

Daily Cartoon: Friday, May 22nd

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

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

Ban Ban’s Bakery by Elena Hiroko Magee, Do Re Mi, £12.99Ban Ban the bunny loves baking with Grandma – but will she be able to turn Dusty Cottage into a bakery of... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Friday, May 22nd

Mick Jagger to play Josh O’Connor’s father in new film from Alice Rohrwacher | Movies

Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger is playing a lighthouse keeper in the new film from Happy as Lazzaro director Alice Rohrwacher, which is currently filming on the Italian island of Stromboli. According... Read more »
‘I refuse to be a second-class citizen in my own land’: Taiwanese International Booker winner Yáng Shuāng-zǐ | International Booker prize

‘I refuse to be a second-class citizen in my own land’: Taiwanese International Booker winner Yáng Shuāng-zǐ | International Booker prize

As Yáng Shuāng-zǐ accepted the 2026 International Booker prize at the Tate Modern on Tuesday night for Taiwan Travelogue, alongside her translator Lin King, she used her speech to speak frankly about... Read more »
‘I refuse to be a second-class citizen in my own land’: Taiwanese International Booker winner Yáng Shuāng-zǐ | International Booker prize

Zeno Sworder’s hopeful and poetic Once I Was a Giant wins book of the year at Australian industry awards | Australian books

Zeno Sworder’s beautifully illustrated picture book Once I Was a Giant, which tells the tale of a tree transformed into a pencil who writes its own story, has won book of the... Read more »
‘I refuse to be a second-class citizen in my own land’: Taiwanese International Booker winner Yáng Shuāng-zǐ | International Booker prize

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 21st

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The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson review – indie debut on the Women’s prize shortlist | Fiction

The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson review – indie debut on the Women’s prize shortlist | Fiction

‘I remember growing up and smelling lanolin everywhere and the wisps of wool just floating around,” debut novelist Marcia Hutchinson has said of her home city of Bradford, then a traditional Yorkshire... Read more »
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