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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.
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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
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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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John Boyne shares his favourite books
The Week recommends The bestselling novelist picks works by Tobias Wolff, Christos Tsiolkas, and Agatha Christie
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Allies at War: a 'revelatory' account of the Second World War
The Week Recommends Tim Bouverie's 'old-fashioned diplomatic history' explores the often fraught relationship between world powers
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Should we be reading Joan Didion's Notes to John?
Talking Point The late writer's posthumously published new book is a record of her therapy sessions that no one was meant to read
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