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Middleland: Rory Stewart’s essay collection is a ‘triumph’
The Week Recommends The Rest is Politics co-host compiles his fortnightly columns written during his time as an MP
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‘Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America’ and ‘Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary’
feature The culture divide in small-town Ohio and how the internet usurped dictionaries
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Should David Szalay’s Flesh have won the Booker Prize?
Talking Point The British-Hungarian author’s ‘hypnotic’ tale of masculinity, sex and power scooped this year’s literary award
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Will George RR Martin ever finish 'The Winds of Winter'?
In Depth Westeros fans have been waiting for well over a decade, and they are going to have to keep waiting
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The Revolutionists: a ‘superb and monumental’ book
The Week Recommends Jason Burke ‘epic’ account of the plane hijackings and kidnappings carried out by extremists in the 1970s
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Jeremy Hunt picks his favourite books
The Week Recommends The former chancellor shares works by Mishal Husain, Keach Hagey, and Johan Norberg
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Book reviews: ‘Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity’ and ‘Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice’
feature An examination of humanity in the face of “the Machine” and a posthumous memoir from one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, who recently died by suicide
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Best new biographies and memoirs to read in 2025
The Week Recommends Dive into these compelling life stories – from Oscar Wilde to Cher
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Margaret Atwood’s ‘deliciously naughty’ memoir
In the Spotlight ‘Bean-spilling’ book by The Handmaid’s Tale author is ‘immensely readable’
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The Rose Field: a ‘nail-biting’ end to The Book of Dust series
The Week Recommends Philip Pullman’s superb new novel brings the trilogy to a ‘fitting’ conclusion
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1929: ‘work of true scholarship’ offers insight into devastating Wall Street crash
The Week Recommends Full of ‘true-crime thrills’, Sorkin’s book is a ‘blow-by-blow’ account of the crisis
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Gilbert King’s 6 favorite books about the search for justice
Feature The journalist recommends works by Bryan Stevenson, David Grann, and more
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Five things we learnt from Virginia Giuffre’s memoir
The Explainer Nobody’s Girl recounts ‘harrowing’ details of Giuffre’s suffering as a teenage victim of Jeffrey Epstein and his circle
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Must-read historical fiction of 2025: from Shadow Ticket to The Director
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