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8 September 2024

  • Richard Osman Photographer: Jay Brooks Assistant: Caz Dyer Set Design: Sandy Suffield Assistant: Lucas Aliaga-Hurt Grooming: Pauline Simmons

    We Solve Murders by Richard Osman review – his new crime-fighting team is another winner

  • A scene from Peter Jackson's film dramatisation of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

    TikTok meets Tolkien: how the Folio Society attracted gen Z readers

  • Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message<br>Embargoed to 1015 Monday December 18 Undated handout photo issued by Channel 4 of Stephen Fry who will deliver Channel 4's 2023 Alternative Christmas Message and condemn the reported rise in incidents of antisemitism since October 7 when Hamas attacked southern Israel. Issue date: Monday December 18, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story SHOWBIZ Fry. Photo credit should read: Channel 4/Adam Lawrence/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    In brief: Odyssey; Good Nature; Listen for the Lie – review

  • Author Michel Houellebecq sits at a table, surrounded by journalists with cameras and microphones

    Observer book of the week
    Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq review – deepfakes, sex acts and cyber-attacks

7 September 2024

  • Elizabeth Strout

    Books interview
    Elizabeth Strout: ‘All ordinary people are extraordinary’

  • Rumaan Alam

    Novelist Rumaan Alam: ‘A lot of people have secret money – it can make you crazy with envy’

  • Anne Enright

    The Q&A
    Anne Enright: ‘When I was eight I wanted to be a boy, so that I could be anything I wanted’

  • Pedro Almodóvar

    Pedro Almodóvar: ‘Life needs fiction to make it bearable’

6 September 2024

  • Jilly Cooper at the Oldie of the year awards.

    You ask the questions
    Send us your questions for Jilly Cooper

    Got something you’d love to ask the Riders author about her five decades writing steamy romances? Now is your chance
  • Susanna Clarke at her home in the Peak district

    ‘She convinces us that magic lives in our world’: VE Schwab on Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    As Susanna Clarke’s fantasy opus turns 20, the Vicious author recalls how she reluctantly started reading it but was soon hooked
  • William Boyd.

    Book of the day
    Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd review – hugely enjoyable cold war espionage

    This cinematic tale of globe-trotting adventure marks the beginning of a new series

5 September 2024

  • Malcolm Knox and the cover of his new book

    Australian book reviews
    The First Friend review – one of history’s greatest monsters reimagined in jet-black satire

  • Roddy Doyle.

    The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle review – hilarity and hard times

4 September 2024

  • Navid Sinaki

    Medusa of the Roses by Navid Sinaki review – noir debut of forbidden love

  • Lascaux cave in the Dordogne.

    Book of the day
    Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner review – a thrilling novel of ideas

3 September 2024

  • Bella Mackie

    Thrillers of the month
    Crime and thrillers of the month – review

    Bella Mackie assembles a gloriously repugnant dysfunctional family, a murderous nurse hides in a library, and a female vigilante hunts down sexual predators in a skilful debut

2 September 2024

  • United’s supporters waiting at Old Trafford Ground for news of their team following the Munich Air Disaster, 6 Feb 1958. Photographer believed to be Robert Smithies as ‘RS’ written on back of print. Print published in the Guardian 7 Feb 1958. GNM Archive ref: GUA/6/9/1/4/A box 2

    Munichs by David Peace review – United in guilt and grief

    In this dramatisation of the 1958 Munich air disaster, the author’s previous brushes with controversy seem to have stifled artistic licence

1 September 2024

  • ‘Mooning and lovesick’: Prime Minister Lord Asquith photographed in the days leading up to the first world war

    Precipice by Robert Harris review – the PM and the socialite

    In this nuanced and poignant retelling of the affair between HH Asquith and Venetia Stanley, the novelist blurs the line between fact and fiction, illuminating love and power
  • Book covers

    Bookmark this
    ‘Destined to be a classic’: the best Australian books out in September

    Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on
  • Janet Frame: Author's life story is reminiscent of the tragedy of screen actress Frances Farmer.<br>CANADA - OCTOBER 16: Janet Frame: Author's life story is reminiscent of the tragedy of screen actress Frances Farmer. (Photo by Reg Innell/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

    The Edge of the Alphabet by Janet Frame review – strikingly imagined voyage into delusion

    Three characters each caught in their own mental turmoil sail from New Zealand to postwar England in this 1962 novel, reissued to mark Frame’s centenary
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