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The best science and nature books of 2025
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (158+ words) It is on our phones and laptops; it is creeping into digital and corporate infrastructure; it is changing...way we learn, work and create; and the global economy rests on the stratospheric valuations of the corporate...
Joanna Trollope, bestselling chronicler of ordinary life, dies aged 82
9+ mon, 2+ day ago (501+ words) In City of Friends she turned her attention to the pressures women faced in corporate life; in Mum &...
Maggie O’Farrell and fellow judges award inaugural Hilary Mantel prize for fiction
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (428+ words) edge of the Florida Everglades, where a small town faces a water contamination crisis linked to corporate...
Vigil by George Saunders review – will a world-wrecking oil tycoon repent?
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (896+ words) The ghosts of Lincoln in the Bardo return to confront a dying oil man’s destructive legacy – but this time they feel like a gimmickGeorge Saunders is back in the Bardo – perhaps stuck there. Vigil, his first novel since 2017’s Booker…...
I’ll Be the Monster by Sean Gilbert review – are they fantasists or psychopaths?
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (1013+ words) The dark past of a seemingly perfect couple is gradually revealed in this observant debut of obsession and controlGlimpse them chatting in a restaurant or posing on Instagram, and you might think they have it all. The pair live in…...
Ghost-Eye by Amitav Ghosh review – a climate-crisis novel let down by its prose
5+ mon, 1+ day ago (1126+ words) A reincarnation mystery drives this exploration of spiritual interconnectedness in a globalised worldWhat happens when a novelist cares more about their plot, or their message, than their prose? Plot and message have this much in common: they travel smoothest on…...
Rumours of My Demise by Evan Dando review – eye-popping tales of drugs and unpredictability
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (1191+ words) An indie-pop darling details his rise to fame and subsequent public humiliations with appealing franknessEvan Dando’s autobiography opens in early 2021. The singer is living in a mouldering trailer on Martha’s Vineyard. He has a $200-a-day drug habit and is subsisting…...
London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe review – a compulsive tale of money, lies and avoidable tragedy
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (1407+ words) The Guardian London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe review – a compulsive tale of money, lies and avoidable tragedy A New Yorker writer traces the web of deceit that led a troubled teenager to his violent death Early one winter morning…...
‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (1470+ words) The Guardian ‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says…...