Booker prize launches new Quick Read in effort to boost adult reading rates | Books

Booker prize launches new Quick Read in effort to boost adult reading rates | Books

An initiative that aims to widen access to Booker prize-winning authors is set to launch this week, as research finds that more than a third of UK adults find it hard to... Read more »
A British Childhood by Frank Cottrell-Boyce review – are we raising a bookless generation? | Frank Cottrell-Boyce

A British Childhood by Frank Cottrell-Boyce review – are we raising a bookless generation? | Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Every day, on my walk to work, I pass a primary school. A group of little people are being dropped off by parents. They are met at the gates by a teacher... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 8th

Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 8th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. Source link Read more »
Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer review – fun in the Tuscan sun | Fiction

Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer review – fun in the Tuscan sun | Fiction

‘There’s a place in Italy in need of someone. Why don’t you look into that?” Inspired by his two-year stint directing a writers’ residency, the Santa Maddalena Foundation outside Florence, with these... Read more »
Tom Gauld on book lies – cartoon

Tom Gauld on book lies – cartoon

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“Far right groups prey on it”: Olivia Laing on the weaponisation of loneliness | Books

“Far right groups prey on it”: Olivia Laing on the weaponisation of loneliness | Books

I first had the idea of writing a book about loneliness in 2012. I was 35 and had just moved to New York City when I became lost in a labyrinth of isolation... Read more »
Tom Gauld on book lies – cartoon

Search for lesbian grandmothers who inspired children’s book | Books

A search is under way for two lesbian grandmothers who inspired a new children’s book after a chance encounter with a pantomime dame at Blackpool Pride. The women, whose names are not... Read more »
The best recent poetry – review roundup | Poetry

The best recent poetry – review roundup | Poetry

Haunting the Black Air by Anthony Joseph (Bloomsbury, £12.99)Joseph’s follow-up to the TS Eliot prize-winning Sonnets for Albert sees his poetic approach become more radical. He pays homage to avant garde writers... Read more »
Readers’ top 100 novels of all time | Fiction

Readers’ top 100 novels of all time | Fiction

100 by Anthony Powell William Wood, Alberta, Canada, 68, retired art historian: “A series of novels that concerns several specific tiers of English society in the first three-quarters of the 20th century... Read more »
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