Books

The best new poetry books to buy for Christmas 2019

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By Tristram Fane Saunders 6 Dec 2019, 10:38am
From AI to Humble Pi: the best new science books to buy for Christmas 2019

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By Steven Poole 5 Dec 2019, 5:45pm
The best crime novels and thrillers to buy for Christmas 2019

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By Jake Kerridge 3 Dec 2019, 2:43pm
They Will Have to Die Now by James Verini review: essential reporting on the fight against Isil

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By Duncan White 2 Dec 2019, 7:00pm
F--- Yeah Video Games by Daniel Hardcastle review: a dose of coffee-fuelled nostalgia

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By Sam Leith 1 Dec 2019, 7:00pm
The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball, review: a dystopian novel that’s truly terrifying

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By Sam Leith 1 Dec 2019, 5:00pm
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front by Serhii Plokhy, review: when Stalin welcomed the US Air Force

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By Roger Lewis 1 Dec 2019, 1:00pm

The Letters of Cole Porter, review: too many flat notes, not enough sharp ones

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By Lewis Jones 1 Dec 2019, 11:30am
Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens, review: a gentle portrait of the poet who touched a nation

By Anita Singh 30 Nov 2019, 11:15pm
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister by Jung Chang review: meet the Mitfords of China

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By Helen Brown 30 Nov 2019, 9:00am
Kiki & Jax by Marie Kondo review: sparking joy in the next generation

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By Emily Bearn 29 Nov 2019, 1:00pm

Interviews

Clive James’s true gift to us was his magnificent poetry

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Jake Kerridge 1 Dec 2019, 8:00am
John Banville on Elizabeth Bowen: "As a practitioner of the shorter form she was the supreme genius of her time"

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By John Banville 24 Nov 2019, 8:00am
Barbara Taylor Bradford on losing her husband of 55 years: 'I'll overcome it. But it's almost unbearable'

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By Celia Walden 22 Nov 2019, 8:00pm

Patti Smith interview: 'My ambition is to write a great, great book'

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By Tristram Fane Saunders 9 Nov 2019, 11:00am
A refresher guide to Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials universe(s)

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By Rebecca Hawkes 8 Nov 2019, 11:52am

What to read

The 44 best children’s books and YA novels of 2019 so far

By Emily Bearn 6 Dec 2019, 10:15am
The 31 best thrillers and crime novels of 2019 so far

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By Jake Kerridge 6 Dec 2019, 9:21am
The 50 best books of 2019

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By Telegraph Reporters 15 Nov 2019, 5:00pm
The 100 greatest novels of all time

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By Telegraph Reporters 5 Nov 2019, 5:14pm

The 11 must-read books of autumn 2019

By Iona McLaren 3 Sep 2019, 11:30am
50 best things to see at the Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival – from art to books and ballet

By Telegraph Reporters 16 Aug 2019, 2:10pm
Best holiday beach reads: 75 books to read this summer

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23 Jul 2019, 7:56am
The 100 best children's books of all time

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By Telegraph Reporters 23 May 2019, 12:55pm

Books news

The 44 best children’s books and YA novels of 2019 so far

By Emily Bearn 6 Dec 2019, 10:15am
The 31 best thrillers and crime novels of 2019 so far

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By Jake Kerridge 6 Dec 2019, 9:21am
The best new children's books to buy for Christmas 2019

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By Emily Bearn 5 Dec 2019, 1:57pm

The way we do books is changing, so what kind of reader are you?

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By Rosa Silverman 2 Dec 2019, 7:00pm
‘Bah! Humbug!’: How Charles Dickens grew sick of Christmas

By Lucy Davies 1 Dec 2019, 11:00am
Clive James’s true gift to us was his magnificent poetry

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Jake Kerridge 1 Dec 2019, 8:00am
‘Not once did I think he might fall’: Paul Auster on the genius of high-wire walker Philippe Petit

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1 Dec 2019, 8:00am

In pictures

Culture stars who have died in 2019, from John Witherspoon to Keith Flint

We remember some of the greatest talents from the arts world who have passed away this year

3 Dec 2019, 1:23pm
Bad Sex Awards: the worst sex scenes in modern fiction

3 Dec 2019, 11:18am
From Godzilla to a gender-bending Harley Quinn: the best pictures from Comic-Con

18 Jul 2019, 5:12pm

Books for children

The 44 best children’s books and YA novels of 2019 so far

By Emily Bearn 6 Dec 2019, 10:15am
Kiki & Jax by Marie Kondo review: sparking joy in the next generation

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By Emily Bearn 29 Nov 2019, 1:00pm
The meaning behind the Daemons in His Dark Materials explained

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By Alice Vincent 11 Nov 2019, 9:38am
A refresher guide to Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials universe(s)

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By Rebecca Hawkes 8 Nov 2019, 11:52am

Designer Paul Smith: How I fell in love with a furry toy monkey

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By Lucy Davies 26 Oct 2019, 11:30am
Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson: ‘I tend not to read my books to my grandchildren’

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By Bryony Gordon 21 Sep 2019, 7:00am
Where to train your dragon? Cressida Cowell on the British holidays that sparked her famous series

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16 Sep 2019, 10:29am
The savage stories behind our best picture books

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By Lucy Scholes 4 Aug 2019, 9:00am

Young adult books

The 44 best children’s books and YA novels of 2019 so far

By Emily Bearn 6 Dec 2019, 10:15am
The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman review: Lyra is all grown up in a rich, vivid sequel

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By Rev Richard Coles 7 Oct 2019, 7:00am
The child prodigy who wrote a bestseller – then disappeared

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By Helen Brown 29 Sep 2019, 1:00pm

Chaos Walking: when will Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley's 'unreleasable' $100m sci-fi movie limp into cinemas?

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By Olly Richards 2 Sep 2019, 1:12pm
Jacqueline Wilson interview: 'We still have a strange way of putting girls and boys into different slots'

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By Neil Armstrong 23 Apr 2019, 7:00am
5 literary heroines to inspire girls this International Women’s Day

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By Anna Clarke 8 Mar 2019, 4:00pm
Christmas books 2018: children's and young adult – a fabulous haul of ripping yarns

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By Emily Bearn 21 Dec 2018, 1:02pm

Non-fiction

From AI to Humble Pi: the best new science books to buy for Christmas 2019

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By Steven Poole 5 Dec 2019, 5:45pm
The way we do books is changing, so what kind of reader are you?

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By Rosa Silverman 2 Dec 2019, 7:00pm

F--- Yeah Video Games by Daniel Hardcastle review: a dose of coffee-fuelled nostalgia

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By Sam Leith 1 Dec 2019, 7:00pm
‘Not once did I think he might fall’: Paul Auster on the genius of high-wire walker Philippe Petit

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1 Dec 2019, 8:00am
Sleeping Letters by Marie-Elsa R Bragg, review: a powerful, inspiring memoir of loss

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By Peter Stanford 30 Nov 2019, 1:00pm
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister by Jung Chang review: meet the Mitfords of China

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By Helen Brown 30 Nov 2019, 9:00am

Crime

The 31 best thrillers and crime novels of 2019 so far

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By Jake Kerridge 6 Dec 2019, 9:21am
How the greatest spy of the Cold War inspired Graham Greene and John LeCarre

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By Duncan White 10 Aug 2019, 12:05pm
The 28 best thrillers and crime novels of 2018

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By Jake Kerridge 27 Feb 2019, 5:30pm
Nico Walker: the thief who wrote a bestseller from his prison cell

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By Jake Kerridge 24 Feb 2019, 12:39pm