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Keanu and co  
How celebrities are the new bestselling novelists
How celebrities are the new bestselling novelists
Hisham Matar  
We all go through a lot. I’m wary of having “material”
We all go through a lot. I’m wary of having “material”
Michael Cunningham  
Some people have never forgiven me for not just writing The Hours again
Some people have never forgiven me for not just writing The Hours again
The books of my life  
Mieko Kawakami: ‘Franz Kafka is my comfort read’
Mieko Kawakami: ‘Franz Kafka is my comfort read’
Five of the best  
Books about whistleblowers
Books about whistleblowers
Audiobook of the week  
Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay audiobook review – salutations to the dawn
Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay audiobook review – salutations to the dawn
Books of the week
The Wild Men by David Torrance review – inside Labour’s first cabinet
The Wild Men by David Torrance review – inside Labour’s first cabinet
An engrossing account of the perilous course charted by Ramsay MacDonald, Britain’s first Labour prime minister
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
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
Wild Houses by Colin Barrett review – a caper in County Mayo
The acclaimed short‑story writer vividly captures small-town Irish lives in his debut novel
The Singularity by Balsam Karam review – a brilliant and beautiful study of displacement
This tale of migration and motherhood by the Swedish-Kurdish author is satisfyingly full of narrative surprises
Spotlight
The case of the missing monarch
Queen Camilla’s books podcast  
The case of the missing monarch
The bizarre format in which questions are edited out make this series of author interviews feel like a right royal no-show
Talking points and news
‘Wokery’, ‘safe word’ and ‘forever chemical’ added to the Oxford English Dictionary
‘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
Palestinian Authority minister to publish diary of life during Israel-Gaza war
Don’t Look Left is culture minister Atef Abu Saif’s ‘shockingly graphic’ day-by-day account of life in Gaza since the 7 October attacks
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’
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
Zadie Smith and Paul Murray on shortlist for Writers’ prize
Other authors in contention for the award, previously known as the Rathbones Folio prize, include Naomi Klein and Observer art critic Laura Cumming
From the archive
Famous first words: how celebrities made their way on to children's bookshelves
Famous first words: how celebrities made their way on to children's bookshelves
David Walliams, Whoopi Goldberg, Bruce Springsteen … when celebrity authors make big money from children’s books, do young readers and other writers pay the price?
Julian Borger
Tuesday 16 January, 8pm–9pm GMT
A classified ad in the Manchester Guardian saved Julian Borger's father from the Nazis, along with other Jewish children. Julian will tell their stories to Jonathan Freedland in this livestreamed event.
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