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Homework: Geoff Dyer brings 'a whole world' to life in his memoir
The Week Recommends Author writes about his experiences with 'humour and tenderness'
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Geoff Dyer shares his favourite books on war
The Week Recommends Out of Sheer Rage author chooses works by Martha Gellhorn, Michael Herr and Dexter Filkins
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Bad Friend: Tiffany Watt Smith explores why women abandon friendships
The Week Recommends A 'deeply researched' account of female friendship through history
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The Week Junior Book Awards 2025 Shortlist Announced
The Week Junior Book Awards have unveiled the 2025 shortlist, celebrating the best in children’s literature across 14 categories.
By The Week Junior Published
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Book reviews: 'Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference' and 'Is a River Alive?'
Feature A rallying cry for 'moral ambition' and the interwoven relationship between humans and rivers
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Rana Dasgupta shares his favourite books
The Week Recommends The novelist and essayist chooses books that illuminated his research for his forthcoming book, 'After Nations'
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Things in Nature Merely Grow: memoir of 'harsh beauty' after loss
The Week Recommends Chinese-American novelist Yiyun Li's 'devastating' memoir explores the deaths of her two sons
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Laura Bates shares her favourite feminist books
The Week Recommends The writer and campaigner chooses works by Malorie Blackman, Louise O’Neill and Madeline Miller
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Is a River Alive? – a 'powerful synthesis of literature, activism and ethics'
The Week Recommends Robert Macfarlane's latest book centres on his journeys to four river systems around the world
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Beth Orton shares her favourite books
The Week Recommends The musician picks works by Rachel Cusk, Celia Paul and Marcel Proust
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Dianaworld: the 'cultural phenomenon' behind the People's Princess
The Week Recommends 'Very fine' book examines the cultural groups who once admired her, and the legacy she left behind
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Reeta Chakrabarti shares her favourite books
The Week recommends The journalist and BBC news anchor picks works by Charlotte Brontë, John Keats and Jhumpa Lahiri
By The Week UK Published
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The Alienation Effect: a 'compelling' study of the émigrés who reshaped postwar Britain
The Week Recommends Owen Hatherley's 'monumental' study is brimming with 'extraordinary revelations'
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The best historical fiction of 2025
The Week Recommends Let these compelling tales whisk you away to another century
By Irenie Forshaw, The Week UK Published
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