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Books advent calendar  
Bridget Jones, Santaland Diaries and A Christmas Carol: 25 literary treats to read this December
Bridget Jones, Santaland Diaries and A Christmas Carol: 25 literary treats to read this December
Grand theory books  
From Piketty’s Capital to Hawking’s The Theory of Everything: can one book explain it all?
From Piketty’s Capital to Hawking’s The Theory of Everything: can one book explain it all?
The books of my life  
Hernan Diaz: ‘The Tintin books were problematic but they were also gorgeous and gripping’
Hernan Diaz: ‘The Tintin books were problematic but they were also gorgeous and gripping’
What we're reading  
Writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in November
Writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in November
‘She took control of the ship with a pistol’  
The high seas heroine who inspired a savage pirate tale
The high seas heroine who inspired a savage pirate tale
Audiobook of the week  
Time Come by Linton Kwesi Johnson audiobook review – effortless prose from the radical poet
Fiona Sturges
Time Come by Linton Kwesi Johnson audiobook review – effortless prose from the radical poet
Books of the week
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild by Mathias Énard review – life, love, language
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild by Mathias Énard review – life, love, language
From a bedbug squashed by Napoleon to a priest who comes back as a wild boar, this riotous French tale of resurrection is a tribute to ‘translators everywhere, at all times’
The Notebook by Roland Allen review – notes on living
From plans for flying machines to philosophy – the remarkable joy of jotting things down
Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem review – death of a neighbourhood
This kaleidoscopic fictionalised memoir is a compelling chronicle of gentrification, filled with a melancholy humour
Mozart in Italy by Jane Glover review – the making of a master
An account of the teenage Mozart’s operatic awakening is packed with humanising detail
My Account by Coleen Rooney review – Wagatha, Wayne and red-top feeding frenzies
The footballer’s wife lays bare her journey from Croxteth chippie to modelling Gucci for Vogue – but the most eye-opening passages are fuelled by domesticity, not celebrity
Spotlight
Booker winner Paul Lynch on his novel about a fascist Ireland
‘This is a wake-up call’  
Booker winner Paul Lynch on his novel about a fascist Ireland
The writer was on the operating table for cancer, then exactly a year later he found out his nightmarish vision had made the shortlist. He reveals why the words for Prophet Song came out with such urgency, there was no time for paragraph breaks
 
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Talking points and news
Katherine Rundell wins Waterstones book of 2023 with ‘immediate classic’
Katherine Rundell wins Waterstones book of 2023 with ‘immediate classic’
Impossible Creatures, about a realm where all the creatures of myth still live, was declared ‘as close to perfect as fiction gets’ by the retailer’s head of books
Almost a million children in the UK do not own a book
National Literacy Trust study also found that children who received free school meals were twice as likely not to have a book of their own at home
Carol Ann Duffy writes poem paying tribute to England’s female footballers
We See You names pioneers of women’s game as well as Lionesses in ‘team talk’ sonnet
Children’s books show rise in racially minoritised characters, survey finds
Centre for Literacy in Primary Education records a 26% increase since its first report in 2017, but stresses continuing inequities in representation
Publishers launch initiative to highlight Palestinian authors and history
The campaign by Publishers for Palestine will offer more than 30 free ebooks of poetry, fiction and nonfiction as ‘an act of solidarity’
Rory Stewart, Jeanette Winterson and Marlon James announced for Hay festival 2024
The UK literary festival unveils 29 taster events next year and plans to focus on ‘global themes and the impact of issues on the world’
From the archive
The post-crash stars of fiction
A new Irish literary boom  
The post-crash stars of fiction
Dynamic, radical, often female … Irish fiction is flourishing. Gone is the conservative writing – all nostalgia and sexual repression – of the Celtic Tiger years. The writers of the new wave are original and bold
Book Club with Naomi Alderman: The Power
Thursday 7 December, 8pm–9pm GMT
In our next Guardian Live Book Club, Alderman will discuss her bestselling novel, The Power, a whip-smart dystopian satire that imagines a world where women have power over men.
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