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The best recent science fiction and fantasy – reviews roundup
Three Eight One by Aliya Whiteley; The Glass Woman by Alice McIlroy; The Principle of Moments by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson; The Knowing by Emma Hinds; Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf
Lisa Tuttle
12, Jan, 2024 @12:00 PM
‘Wokery’, ‘safe word’ and ‘forever chemical’ added to the Oxford English Dictionary
The OED’s latest update features new terms related to politics, sex, technology and the environment
Ella Creamer
12, Jan, 2024 @11:28 AM
Mieko Kawakami: ‘Franz Kafka is my comfort read’
The Japanese author on the humour of Kurt Vonnegut, the joys of James Joyce and translating Beatrix Potter
Mieko Kawakami
12, Jan, 2024 @10:00 AM
Five of the best books about whistleblowers
From the Horizon scandal and Watergate to the blog post that brought down the CEO of Uber, these works of nonfiction throw some light on those brave enough to speak truth to power
James Ball
12, Jan, 2024 @10:00 AM
The Gallopers by Jon Ransom review – gay love in the 1950s
This sly emotional thriller from the author of The Whale Tattoo explores the discord between the individual and the world
Yagnishsing Dawoor
12, Jan, 2024 @7:30 AM
Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir to be posthumously published this autumn
Book co-written with the star’s daughter Riley Keough promises to reveal ‘the complexity of being a Presley’
Ella Creamer
11, Jan, 2024 @4:21 PM
The ultimate summer reading list: 15 great celebrity memoirs, from Patrick Stewart to Britney Spears
Whether you’re after a gossipy tell-all (Julia Fox, Keith Richards) or an inspiring personal story (Matthew Perry, Henry Winkler), your beach reads are sorted courtesy of Guardian Australia’s staff and critics
Steve Dow, Sian Cain, Ariel Bogle, Josh Taylor, Katie Cunningham, Alyx Gorman, Lucy Clark, Maddie Thomas, Helen Sullivan, Julia Hollingsworth, Jared Richards, Beejay Silcox and Doosie Morris
11, Jan, 2024 @2:00 PM
David Donachie obituary
Other lives: Author of a stream of novels notable for their pace and lively sense of history
Stephen Bates
11, Jan, 2024 @11:36 AM
Israelis and Palestinians by Jonathan Glover review – the psychology of conflict
A moral philosopher examines the cycles of suffering that perpetuate violence
Gabrielle Rifkind
11, Jan, 2024 @11:00 AM
Inland by Gerald Murnane review – at the frontiers of imagination
In this reissued novel from the 1980s, the Australian great explores love, memory, grasslands and the landscapes of a solitary mind
Richard Robinson
11, Jan, 2024 @9:00 AM
How Life Works by Philip Ball review – the magic of biology
An essential primer on humanity’s ongoing quest to understand the secrets of life
Adam Rutherford
11, Jan, 2024 @7:30 AM
Keanu Reeves and China Miéville to release collaborative novel The Book of Elsewhere
The Canadian actor has allowed the sci-fi novelist to adapt his BRZRKR comic series about a warrior on a journey to understand immortality
Ella Creamer
10, Jan, 2024 @4:26 PM
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