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Fantasy fiction doesn’t need reclaiming for women – they already write and read it | Letters

www.wakaticket.com – Letters: Responding to an editorial about the surge in romantasy books, James Latimer writes that romance isn’t only for girls, and Yvonne Williams talks about the synergy of dragons and sex…
Fantasy fiction doesn’t need reclaiming for women – they already write and read it | Letters

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

www.wakaticket.com – The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer; The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths; Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito; The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha; The Weekenders by David F Ross…
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron audiobook review – bold truth-telling

www.wakaticket.com – Growing older, culinary mishaps and meeting JFK are among the subjects in this fiercely funny collection of essays, narrated by the author…
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron audiobook review – bold truth-telling

‘Let’s start a chapter of our own’: the couples who found love in bookshops

www.wakaticket.com – Lovers living out their Notting Hill fantasies, shy readers whose eyes met at a book club … readers give us a tour of the romance section for Valentine’s Day…
‘Let’s start a chapter of our own’: the couples who found love in bookshops

‘Important and beautiful’ 13th-century Bible returns to Salisbury

www.wakaticket.com – Sarum Master Bible to go on display at cathedral after being in private hands for almost 800 years…
‘Important and beautiful’ 13th-century Bible returns to Salisbury

Andrew McMillan: ‘As an atheist, the poetry of Mary Oliver is the closest I come to prayer’

www.wakaticket.com – The poet on his early love of horror and the transformative power of Thom Gunn…
Andrew McMillan: ‘As an atheist, the poetry of Mary Oliver is the closest I come to prayer’

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad review – a cathartic savaging of western hypocrisy over Gaza

www.wakaticket.com – The novelist and reporter delivers a passionate indictment of complacent liberal responses to Israel’s brutal campaign…
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad review – a cathartic savaging of western hypocrisy over Gaza

Somebody Down There Likes Me by Robert Lukins review – a dispiriting imitation of Succession

www.wakaticket.com – Yet another trendy tale of feckless, all-American cruelty, following a family of late-capitalist tropes whose empire is about to fall…
Somebody Down There Likes Me by Robert Lukins review – a dispiriting imitation of Succession

Base Notes by Adelle Stripe review – an olfactory trip down memory lane

www.wakaticket.com – The novelist uses perfume to conjure scenes from a working-class upbringing in this funny, bleak memoir…
Base Notes by Adelle Stripe review – an olfactory trip down memory lane

Ex-England manager Gareth Southgate to publish new book on leadership

www.wakaticket.com – Dear England: Lessons on Leadership, which ‘transcends football’ and offers advice on resilience and performance for individuals and organisations, will come out in October…
Ex-England manager Gareth Southgate to publish new book on leadership

Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva review – revenge of the giant humanoid mosquito

www.wakaticket.com – A tale of radioactive mutation and bloodlust takes flight in the Argentinian author’s wild anti-capitalist satire…
Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva review – revenge of the giant humanoid mosquito

A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay review – family secrets in Jamaica

www.wakaticket.com – This big-hearted tale sees a 99-year-old woman reckoning with the inheritance of the past…
A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay review – family secrets in Jamaica

The South by Tash Aw review – an intimate epic begins

www.wakaticket.com – Two boys on the brink of adulthood in 1990s Malaysia, in the opening volume of a Proustian quartet…
The South by Tash Aw review – an intimate epic begins

Tom Robbins obituary

www.wakaticket.com – Novelist whose biggest seller was Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, which Thomas Pynchon hoped would change the ‘brainscape of America’…
Tom Robbins obituary

I was a evangelical Christian for 35 years – until my transgressive big sister gave me the courage to break free | Josie McSkimming

www.wakaticket.com – My sister Dorothy Porter was a bohemian gay poet; I was a respectable church handmaiden. But she cracked the door open for me to start seeing the world differently…
I was a evangelical Christian for 35 years – until my transgressive big sister gave me the courage to break free | Josie McSkimming

Looking at Women Looking at War by Victoria Amelina review – a precious and powerful work of literature

www.wakaticket.com – This tragically unfinished account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine bears witness to both grave crimes and the strength of the human spirit…
Looking at Women Looking at War by Victoria Amelina review – a precious and powerful work of literature

How the left can win back the working class

www.wakaticket.com – In a new book Joan Williams says Democrats can win back ground lost to Trump without abandoning their values…
How the left can win back the working class

Perspectives by Laurent Binet review – a dazzling Renaissance romp

www.wakaticket.com – The HHhH author’s entertaining whodunnit is stuffed with real-life artists behaving badly…
Perspectives by Laurent Binet review – a dazzling Renaissance romp

Neneh Cherry and Anne Applebaum longlisted for Women’s prize for nonfiction

www.wakaticket.com – Sixteen authors are in contention for the £30,000 prize launched last year to redress the gender imbalance in nonfiction awards in the UK…
Neneh Cherry and Anne Applebaum longlisted for Women’s prize for nonfiction

Under a Metal Sky by Philip Marsden review – our dark materials

www.wakaticket.com – This account of humanity’s magical yet toxic relationship with rocks and minerals is filled with glittering details…
Under a Metal Sky by Philip Marsden review – our dark materials
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