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The Golden Hours by Louisa Young review – this continuation of the Cazalet Chronicles is a total delight | Fiction

Elizabeth Jane Howard’s beloved family saga the Cazalet Chronicles spans three decades in the life of the upper-middle-class Cazalet family. The first four books, written in the 1990s, run from a bucolic... Read more »
‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom | Books

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom | Books

If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality... Read more »
Thursday briefing: Why magical kingdoms feel more relatable than real‑world romance​ for today’s young women | Romance books

Thursday briefing: Why magical kingdoms feel more relatable than real‑world romance​ for today’s young women | Romance books

Good morning. It was a hare or maybe a small deer that prompted my own excursion into romantasy fiction. Stuck on the train home from London to Glasgow, delayed by animals on... Read more »
‘Attacked behind the scenes’: Children of Blood & Bone author Tomi Adeyemi distances herself from film adaptation | Young adult

‘Attacked behind the scenes’: Children of Blood & Bone author Tomi Adeyemi distances herself from film adaptation | Young adult

Tomi Adeyemi, the author of the popular YA fantasy Children of Blood and Bone, has distanced herself from the forthcoming film adaptation of her book. “There is a reason I will not... Read more »
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young by Zayd Ayers Dohrn review – child of the revolution | Autobiography and memoir

Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young by Zayd Ayers Dohrn review – child of the revolution | Autobiography and memoir

Every aspect of a family’s life will seem normal to the small children within it; only hindsight can bring what was abnormal into relief. Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s earliest years were spent on the run... Read more »
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 »
To give young people wings: The Lost Words duo reunite for book of birds | Birds

To give young people wings: The Lost Words duo reunite for book of birds | Birds

When the artist Jackie Morris collaborated with the writer Robert Macfarlane to celebrate the names of plants and animals controversially removed from the Oxford Junior Dictionary, they never imagined their book, The... Read more »
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young by Zayd Ayers Dohrn review – child of the revolution | Autobiography and memoir

Young Finns snub their mother tongue by reading in English | Publishing

Growing numbers of young people in Finland are buying books in English rather than in their mother tongue, raising fears among publishers over the future of translated literature. One in four titles... Read more »
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