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If you only read one book this year … make it this one!

www.wakaticket.com – From dystopian Australian cli-fi to essential essays about Black Britain and Jack Reacher’s thrilling debut – authors, critics and booksellers all have a single recommendation…
If you only read one book this year … make it this one!
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New poll finds 40% of Britons have not read a book in the past year

www.wakaticket.com – The median British adult has read or listened to three books in the past 12 months with reading habits also split along gender, class and political divides…
New poll finds 40% of Britons have not read a book in the past year
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Time Together by Luke Horton review – old friends, new tensions in this compelling study of middle age

www.wakaticket.com – A beach holiday is narrated by four different characters as they struggle to slough off their personal ghosts…
Time Together by Luke Horton review – old friends, new tensions in this compelling study of middle age
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Alive by Gabriel Weston review – a revelatory study of the body

www.wakaticket.com – A doctor draws on science, history, art and her own experiences to help us see human anatomy anew…
Alive by Gabriel Weston review – a revelatory study of the body
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Flesh by David Szalay review – brilliantly spare portrait of a man

www.wakaticket.com – From youthful curiosity to midlife resignation, the protagonist is buffeted by forces beyond his control in this thrilling exploration of what it means to be alive…
Flesh by David Szalay review – brilliantly spare portrait of a man
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‘Reduced to nonsense’: JRR Tolkien’s irritation with typist revealed in archive

www.wakaticket.com – Exclusive: Important collection of author’s letters and manuscripts, being sold in April, reveals his loathing of sloppiness and love of language…
‘Reduced to nonsense’: JRR Tolkien’s irritation with typist revealed in archive
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Sophie Elmhirst’s Maurice and Maralyn wins Nero book of the year prize

www.wakaticket.com – The Guardian long read writer’s ‘enthralling’ first book was said to reach ‘the highest literary eminence’ by judging chair Bill Bryson…
Sophie Elmhirst’s Maurice and Maralyn wins Nero book of the year prize
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Neil Gaiman asks US court to dismiss lawsuit alleging rape and sexual assault

www.wakaticket.com – The author’s motion to dismiss argued that the case should be heard in New Zealand, where the alleged abuse took place, and called accuser Scarlett Pavlovich ‘a fantasist’…
Neil Gaiman asks US court to dismiss lawsuit alleging rape and sexual assault
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The Antidote by Karen Russell review – a magical realist Dust Bowl tale

www.wakaticket.com – A ‘prairie witch’ who can remove unwanted memories is at the centre of this 1930s-set parable about climate refugees, amnesia and the ethnic cleansing of Native peoples…
The Antidote by Karen Russell review – a magical realist Dust Bowl tale
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Mood Machine by Liz Pelly review – a savage indictment of Spotify

www.wakaticket.com – The global streaming behemoth has made music blander and life harder for artists, according to this enraging portrait…
Mood Machine by Liz Pelly review – a savage indictment of Spotify
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World Book Day: top tips for last-minute costumes

www.wakaticket.com – From Halloween-inspired Harry Potters to toilet roll-wrapped Mr Bumps, writers and booksellers share their ideas for kitting out your child for WBD at the 11th hour…
World Book Day: top tips for last-minute costumes
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Kit de Waal to headline new festival celebrating women writers over 50

www.wakaticket.com – Forthwrite, which takes place over two days this month, aims to dispel stereotypes around older women…
Kit de Waal to headline new festival celebrating women writers over 50
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Unseen Harper Lee stories set in New York and Alabama to be published

www.wakaticket.com – Eight unpublished stories by the To Kill a Mockingbird author will be issued later this year as The Land of Sweet Forever…
Unseen Harper Lee stories set in New York and Alabama to be published
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‘Let’s dig into the archives and tell the truth’: interrogating Yale’s connections to slavery

www.wakaticket.com – Pulitzer prize winner David Blight follows his biography of Frederick Douglass with a deep dive into his university’s dark past…
‘Let’s dig into the archives and tell the truth’: interrogating Yale’s connections to slavery
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‘Sign our own death warrant’: Australian writers angry after Melbourne publisher asks them to sign AI agreements

www.wakaticket.com – Authors asked to allow Black Inc to use their work for ‘training, testing, validation and the deployment of a machine learning’ system…
‘Sign our own death warrant’: Australian writers angry after Melbourne publisher asks them to sign AI agreements
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Picture books for children – reviews

www.wakaticket.com – Laughter abounds with tales of mini beasts at bedtime, a box filled with babbling babies and an odd-couple comedy from Julia Donaldson…
Picture books for children – reviews
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Women’s prize for fiction reveals longlist ‘overflowing with compelling stories’

www.wakaticket.com – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Miranda July and Elizabeth Strout are among the 16 writers in contention for the £30,000 prize…
Women’s prize for fiction reveals longlist ‘overflowing with compelling stories’
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Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy review – incurable sadness if bravely borne

www.wakaticket.com – Colm Tóibín introduces this welcome reprint of the US author and critic’s poignant account of orphanhood, first published in 1957…
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy review – incurable sadness if bravely borne
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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February

www.wakaticket.com – Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments…
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February
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Poem of the week: The Widow’s Lament in Springtime by William Carlos Williams

www.wakaticket.com – The conversational plainness of this monologue carries with it intense feeling…
Poem of the week: The Widow’s Lament in Springtime by William Carlos Williams
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