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‘Leaving home used to be a rite of passage’  
Andrew O’Hagan on family, freedom and a generational divide
Andrew O’Hagan on family, freedom and a generational divide
‘I will defeat Richard Osman!’  
Holly Jackson on being Britain’s top selling female crime author
Lucy Knight
Holly Jackson on being Britain’s top selling female crime author
Helen Garner  
People would give me death stares in the street
Rachel Cooke
People would give me death stares in the street
The books of my life  
John Cooper Clarke: ‘I read Kerouac at 12 and figured I could improve on it’
John Cooper Clarke: ‘I read Kerouac at 12 and figured I could improve on it’
Liu Cixin  
I’m often asked – there’s science fiction in China?
David Barnett
I’m often asked – there’s science fiction in China?
‘You can see it as a revenge fantasy’  
The new book arguing that enslaved people co-authored the Bible
Donna Ferguson
The new book arguing that enslaved people co-authored the Bible
Books of the week
The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston review – a blistering tale of land and violence
The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston review – a blistering tale of land and violence
The tragedy that decimated UK farming in 2001 spills into a nightmare in a viscerally vivid debut with knife-sharp black humour
Heresy by Catherine Nixey review – book of revelations
From Herod as the Messiah to a virginity test for Mary – the Christian story, but not as you know it
Choice by Neel Mukherjee review – parables for our times
A bleak, brilliant moral maze of a novel about ethical dilemmas, from global poverty to the climate crisis
The Price of Life by Jenny Kleeman review – what’s it worth?
A riveting examination of the value we place on human life – from healthcare to hitmen
How to Win an Information War by Peter Pomerantsev review – the radio host who beat Goebbels at his own game
This compelling study of 1930s journalist Sefton Delmer reveals how he used ‘grotesque cabaret’ as propaganda to undermine the Germans’ faith in nazism – and how such methods could be used against today’s tyrants
Spotlight
Five of the best books about social media
Five of the best  
Five of the best books about social media
Aneesa Ahmed
From online courtroom to information manipulation, social media has radically changed communication. Here are five books to help navigate it
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A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
Why has the office of Prime Minister endured longer than any other democratic political office? Sir Anthony Seldon, historian of Number 10, explores the lives and careers, loves and scandals, and successes and failures of our great Prime Ministers from Robert Walpole to Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher, up to the recent churn of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.

A celebration of the humanity, frailty, work and achievements of 57 remarkable individuals who averted revolution and civil war, leading the country through times of peace, crisis and war.

Talking points and news
Naomi Klein and Laura Cumming shortlisted for inaugural Women’s prize for nonfiction
Naomi Klein and Laura Cumming shortlisted for inaugural Women’s prize for nonfiction
Joining the Guardian columnist and Observer art critic are academics Tiya Miles and Noreen Masud, FT journalist Madhumita Murgia and poet Safiya Sinclair
Harvard will remove binding made of human skin from 1800s book
University says first owner of book by French novelist took the skin from a deceased female patient without consent
The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words
More than half of the borrowed words relate to cooking, while Kintsugi, the increasingly popular art of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer is also included
Book of Donald: Trump hawks special ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles for $60
Former president sells Trump-endorsed Bible in concert with Lee Greenwood, country singer whose music is played at his rallies
Dozens of library services and 26 museums to receive £33m government funding
The latest round of cultural investment will enable local councils to upgrade their services and help ‘libraries play an increasingly important role in our communities’
Poem inspired by New York mugging wins top prize in National Poetry Competition
Imogen Wade’s The Time I Was Mugged in New York City impresses judges for ‘lyricism in the account of an abduction’
From the archive
Top 10 Easter scenes in literature
Top 10  
Top 10 Easter scenes in literature
It can seem literature's second-string festival, lacking Christmas's glow. But writers from Shakespeare to Yates to Goethe to Tolstoy have often drawn inspiration from Easter. John Dugdale surveys 10 key scenes and works
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