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Books

  • Seamus Heaney

    Poetry
    Seamus Heaney’s unpublished poems to be released — read one exclusively here

    The Poems of Seamus Heaney, out on Thursday, will feature all 12 of the revered Irish author’s collections alongside uncollected works and 25 poems yet to be published
  • Antoine Cosse - Pushkins

    The long read
    The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

    Philip Oltermann
  • L) Iranian writer Rabih Alameddine, LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images, image no. 617931308 R) Author Bryan Washington Sophie Bassouls/Sygma via Getty Images, image no 1443228361.

    News
    Bryan Washington and Rabih Alameddine among National Book Award finalists

  • Headshots of the shortlisted poets

    News
    ‘Great range and power’: TS Eliot poetry prize shortlist announced

  • Asta Olivia Nordenhof.

    Book of the day
    The Devil Book by Asta Olivia Nordenhof review – a Danish series that burns with purpose

    Nina Allan

What to read

  1. Best Paperbacks September 2025

    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Haruki Murakami, Richard Powers and more

  2. Claire-Louise Bennett, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Salman Rushdie, Patricia Lockwood and RF Kuang

    Autumn reads
    From a new Thomas Pynchon novel to a memoir by Margaret Atwood: the biggest books of the autumn

  3. Book covers

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in September

Non-fiction reviews

  • Andrew O'Hagan at his home in London.

    Autobiography and memoir
    On Friendship by Andrew O’Hagan review – ties that bind

    Anthony Cummins
  • Kabul’s InterContinental hotel.

    History books
    The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet review – a monument to Afghan resilience

    William Dalrymple
  • Sarah Perry in March 2024.

    Autobiography and memoir
    Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry review – a brilliant meditation on mortality

    Joe Moran
  • Ben Elton At The Secret Policeman's Third BallBen Elton, Amnesty International, Secret Policeman's Third Ball, London Palladium 3/26/87. (Photo by Steve Rapport/Getty Images)

    Autobiography and memoir
    What Have I Done? by Ben Elton review – a curious mixture of insight and rampaging ego

    Fiona Sturges

Fiction & poetry reviews

  1. A remote Irish island

    Fiction
    The Elements by John Boyne review – intertwined tales of trauma

    James Smart
  2. Ursula K Le Guin.

    Poetry roundup
    The best recent poetry – review roundup

  3. Elizabeth Day.

    Fiction
    One of Us by Elizabeth Day review – the inner lives of Tory MPs

    Lara Feigel
  4. Kanchenjunga in Darjeeling, where Half Light is set.

    Fiction
    Half Light by Mahesh Rao review – a tale of forbidden love in India

    Christopher Shrimpton

Children's and YA books

  1. Bear’s Nap by Emily Gravett

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  2. illustration of

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  3. A detail from put Your Shoes On by Polly Dunbar.

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  4. Wild by Katya Balen, illustrated by Gill Smith.

    Children's books
    Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams

Interviews

  1. Batool Abu Akleen in Gaza.

    Interview
    ‘My poems are part of my flesh’: Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen on life in Gaza

  2. SenLinYu

    Fantasy books
    The fanfiction written on a notes app that’s become a bestseller – with a seven-figure film deal

  3. Kiran Desai.

    Interview
    Kiran Desai: ‘I never thought it would happen in the US’

    Sophie McBain

Regulars

  • Nick Harkaway.

    The books of my life
    Nick Harkaway: ‘I loathed Charles Dickens – it nearly turned me off reading for ever’

  • Elia Barbieri - The Guardian Saturday - 4 October 2025 - Were women more emancipated in the deep past PRINTING-01

    Big idea
    Was prehistory a feminist paradise?

  • Keith McNallyKeith McNally.

    Audiobook of the week
    I Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNally audiobook review – the life of a hospitality legend

  • ‘ Thomas Carew’ …

    Poem of the week
    Poem of the week: To a Lady that Desired I Would Love Her by Thomas Carew

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    In conversation
    How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation

  2. Statue of Tārā

    Fiction
    The 4thWrite short story prize winner — a British Museum statue that belongs to Sri Lanka

  3. Brian Patten at the Port Eliot festival, St Germans, Cornwall, 2018.

    Obituaries
    Brian Patten obituary

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