Books
Allies at War by Tim Bouverie review – a revelatory study of second world war alliances
In focusing on the multilateral bonds that were forged to defeat Hitler, this entertaining account offers fresh disclosures about the course of the war
Adam Sisman
08, Apr, 2025 @8:00 AM
Love and Fury: The Extraordinary Life, Death and Legacy of Joe Meek by Darryl W Bullock – review
This richly detailed and exhaustive biography of the maverick 60s British music producer reveals a sonic visionary whose brilliance concealed a tragically violent temper
Sean O’Hagan
08, Apr, 2025 @6:00 AM
Stella prize 2025: shortlist entirely women of colour for the first time in award’s history
Michelle de Kretser and journalist Amy McQuire among six authors in contention for $60,000 prize for women and non-binary writers
Dee Jefferson
07, Apr, 2025 @10:00 PM
Poem of the week: A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth by Ben Jonson
A strategically flattering tribute to a pioneering female writer is lifted by authentic warmth and admiration
Carol Rumens
07, Apr, 2025 @9:00 AM
Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy review – a classic that will be read for decades to come
Sketched in cinematic black and white, this illustrated interpretation of the late author’s postmodern detective novel is a ‘stone-cold masterpiece’
Rachel Cooke
07, Apr, 2025 @8:00 AM
Children of Radium by Joe Dunthorne review – complicity, courage and cowardice examined in a slippery marvel
The Submarine author employs that novel’s warmth and wit in his investigation into whether his great-grandfather knowingly helped to make chemical weapons for the Nazis
Anthony Cummins
07, Apr, 2025 @6:00 AM
The Faber/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize 2025 – enter now!
The annual award for aspiring cartoonists – which now boasts its own evening event – offers the chance to be published in the Observer and win £1,000, with past winners landing book and film deals
Rachel Cooke
06, Apr, 2025 @3:30 PM
We Were There by Lanre Bakare review – the forgotten voices of black Britain
The author’s sharply intelligent history of how black British identity was forged beyond London in the cauldron of the Thatcherite 1970s and 80s is a necessary corrective
Colin Grant
06, Apr, 2025 @2:00 PM
Fight by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes review – scathing account of Biden, Harris and their election loss
Book details how Biden’s circle was reluctant to step down, Harris’s handling of a listing ship and a lack of faith in both
Lloyd Green
06, Apr, 2025 @12:00 PM
Chopping Onions on my Heart by Samantha Ellis review – an Iraqi Jew’s celebration of an endangered culture
In this deeply personal but wryly funny memoir, the author examines her Middle Eastern ancestry and asks what it means to witness her community and their traditions fade from memory
Stephanie Merritt
06, Apr, 2025 @12:00 PM
Alex Wheatle obituary
Author of the Crongton novels whose stories of inner-city life give a realistic portrait of growing up in contemporary Britain
Julia Eccleshare
06, Apr, 2025 @11:40 AM
The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal review – a warm story of second starts
A bereaved woman forms new relationships in the author’s first novel in seven years, a tender and funny tale of forgiveness
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
06, Apr, 2025 @10:00 AM
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