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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 13

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X theguardian.com/media/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 13

V13 by Emmanuel Carrère review – gripping chronicle of the 2015 Paris attacks trial theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. A chronicle of the largest criminal case in French history from a master of the genre

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 13

Killing Time by Alan Bennett review – a cut above theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. From afternoon sherry to sex with the handyman in the lawnmower shed, Alan Bennett takes a wry look at lockdown life in a care home

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 12

‘This is a book we need now’: Sara Collins on choosing this year’s Booker winner theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. After reading more than 150 books over seven months, the judges voted unanimously in favour of Samantha Harvey’s Orbital – which pulled them as far away as possible from our planet

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 12

Samantha Harvey’s ‘beautiful and ambitious’ Orbital wins Booker prize theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. The British author’s novel about astronauts on the International Space Station was chosen unanimously as the winner, says judging chair Edmund de Waal

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 12

Hachette employees protest and quit over launch of conservative imprint theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. Basic Liberty, a publishing imprint launched in the wake of Trump’s election win, will be helmed by Thomas Spence, an editor associated with Project 2025 thinktank The Heritage Foundation

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 12

Young adult books roundup – reviews theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. A dark fantasy in the vein of Alan Garner, a raw but hopeful tale of teenage alcoholism, and a cosy romcom with a neurodivergent angle are among this month’s selection

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 12

The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe review – a blue murder mystery theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. Set during Liz Truss’s premiership, Coe’s multilayered study of how things quickly fell apart is a whodunnit with a villain hiding in plain sight

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 12

‘Henry VIII is a serial killer and abuser’: why is Britain still so obsessed with the Tudors? theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. England has long adopted the version of events informed by the Victorians’ biases and neuroses. But what is behind the flood of 21st-century retellings, including the new TV series The Mirror and the...

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 11

Alexander Garvie obituary theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. Other lives: Glasgow University professor who specialised in the study of the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 11

Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey favourites to win 2024 Booker prize theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. American author Everett and British writer Harvey have been given the shortest odds of winning the £50,000 literary prize but Ladbrokes say the ‘race is wide-open’

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 11

Poem of the week: The Kurdish Musician by Mimi Khalvati theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. An émigré player’s artistry sings through a London street, rising over many barriers

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 11

We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson review – a return to God… by way of the Brothers Grimm and The Lion King theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. The Canadian psychologist’s zealous exegesis of the Bible as a moral rulebook for life is long-winded and out of touch

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 10

Her Lotus Year by Paul French review – Wallis Simpson’s Shanghai story theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. A new account of the months Simpson spent in China debunks the well-worn gossip about sexual adventures and opium addiction and even invites admiration for a ‘buccaneering’ woman

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 10

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami review – a lack of magic and meaning theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. Murakami’s 15th novel retreads a form of magical realism that hasn’t evolved

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 10

Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse review – the Nobel laureate’s mystical account of where we begin and end theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. In this republished novella from 2000 about a fisherman and his son, the Norwegian writer captures the puzzlement and wonder of the human condition

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 10

In brief: Who Owns Football?; The Caretaker; The Land in Winter theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. A deep dive into football’s puppet masters; an evocative slice of Americana; and another tour de force from Pure author Andrew Miller

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 10

Booker prize 2024: and the winner is... you, the reader theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. The judges have a hard task at this week’s Booker prize ceremony with five of the six shortlisted books worthy winners, though Percival Everett’s James – a retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn...

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 9

Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing: ‘Working while grieving was consoling’ theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. The editor and author on completing the memoir by her late friend, Swedish writer Johanna Ekström, where she stands on the assisted dying bill and what she’s reading

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Guardian Books@GuardianBooks · Nov 9

Remote islands free the imagination – but they also stir up fear theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

GuardianBooks's tweet card. Bestselling author Paula Hawkins set her new book on a fictional tidal island. Here she examines the power and appeal of islands

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