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Best biographies and memoirs to add to your reading listThe Week Recommends Dive into these compelling life stories – from Margaret Atwood to Cher
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David Szalay: Booker Prize winner not open about the origins of his novel’s plotIn the Spotlight Startling similarities have emerged between author’s novel Flesh and Stanley Kubrick’s film Barry Lyndon – but the writer is playing down the parallels
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One great cookbook: ‘Hot Sour Salty Sweet’the week recommends A remarkable Southeast Asian travelogue
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What to see and do at Hay FestivalThe Week Recommends This year’s line-up is as enticing as ever, with Ian McEwan, Maggie O'Farrell, Bernardine Evaristo, Val McDermid – and more
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Enough Said: latest volume of Alan Bennett’s ‘punctiliously kept’ diariesThe Week Recommends The 91-year-old ponders mortality and loss in his fourth instalment
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Book review: ‘Judy Blume: A Life’Feature The beloved author gets her own story told
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April’s books feature a meditation on memory and a generational tale of gentrificationThe Week Recommends This month’s new releases include ‘Transcription’ by Ben Lerner, ‘Livonia Chow Mein’ by Abigail Savitch-Lew and ‘Like, Follow, Subscribe’ by Fortesa Latifi
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Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! – Liza Minnelli’s ‘enthralling’ memoirThe Week Recommends The actor charts her highs and lows in ‘heartrending’ and hilarious book
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Book reviews: ‘Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945’ and ‘Adult Braces’Feature A new history of Berlin during World War II and a popular writer accepts life in a throuple
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Will Self picks his favourite booksThe Week Recommends Author shares works by Martin Heidegger, François-René de Chateaubriand and Norman Lewis
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Literary festivals around the UKThe Week Recommends These must-visit events are packed with fascinating talks, readings and masterclasses
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Book reviews: ‘Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity’ and ‘Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!’Feature The role of Christianity in America and Liza Minnelli tells (somewhat) all
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Shy Girl and the ‘uncertain new era’ of AI booksUnder the Radar Hachette drops horror novel after claims that artificial intelligence was used to write much of it
By Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK Published
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10 of spring’s very best cookbooksthe week recommends Your kitchen is about to have its mind blown
By Scott Hocker, The Week US Published
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