Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason review – a tale of literary obsession, with cameos from real-life authors | Fiction

The protagonist of Meg Mason’s new book, the follow-up to the 2020 tragicomedy Sorrow and Bliss, is an invisible woman. She might well be standing there but you won’t notice her. She’s... Read more »

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

Small Monster, Big Monster by Allan Sanders, Phaidon, £7.95Refrigerator is EMPTY. Monster is FULL (of pizza!). An eye-wateringly bright board book, featuring splendidly zany, toddler-pleasing pairs of opposites. The Flying Machine of... Read more »

Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 28th

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Kolkhoz by Emmanuel Carrère review – intricate portrait of an elite French family | Autobiography and memoir

When Emmanuel Carrère’s mother, Hélène, died in 2023, at the age of 94, President Macron spoke at her memorial. She had been “perpetual secretary” of the Académie Française, in effect its head, and... Read more »

The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout audiobook review – brilliant portrait of an existential crisis | Books

Artie Dam is a much-loved history teacher from coastal Massachusetts famed for his white socks and old sneakers and who sees a growing hopelessness in his young students. Not only are they... Read more »

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, August 27th

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The Great Dictator by Matthew Sweet review – the fabulous life of Barbara Cartland | Biography books

Barbara Cartland was famous for dictating her novels. With a pekingese clamped to her hot pink bosom she would lie back on a library couch and exhale a story about virginal girls... Read more »

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, August 26th

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Passage by Colin Thubron review – mortality and memory in a gem of a novel | Books

Virginia Woolf said of Middlemarch that it is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people. In the shallow and infantilising age through which we are living, Colin Thubron dares... Read more »
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