15 h. ago I've read 140 books this year but only 5 have left me guessing until the end

I'm pretty good at predicting how books will end, but these five had me guessing until the very end

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39 h. ago I write bestselling cosy fantasy books — these are the 12 cosy books you need to read

With the days becoming chillier, pumpkin spice everywhere and just a matter of weeks before the clocks fall back, we're officially in cosy season

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61 h. ago Tim Dowling: II love books – but can’t remember anything about the ones I’ve just read

In bed I lie awake, staring at the books on my nightstand, trying to remember a single salient fact about any of themThe oldest one is recommending the book he’s just finished to me.“You should read this,” he says, handing me a well-thumbed paperback, which I turn over in my hands. Continue reading...

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61 h. ago Tim Dowling: I love books – but can’t remember anything about the ones I’ve just read

In bed I lie awake, staring at the books on my nightstand, trying to remember a single salient fact about any of themThe oldest one is recommending the book he’s just finished to me.“You should read this,” he says, handing me a well-thumbed paperback, which I turn over in my hands. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Best Betting Sites UK: New & Top Ranked Bookmakers for October 2025

Compare over 60 licensed and regulated betting sites in the UK and read our reviews of the best online bookmakers for October 2025

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4 d. ago Read about the life and legacy of Jane Goodall in these books

The pioneering activist dedicated her life to the study of chimpanzees

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1 week ago I've read 15 books by the same author this year — they got me back into reading

I've always loved reading, but in recent years, I've found it hard to get into a book and have been in a reading slump. That was until I discovered this author

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1 week ago This was my favourite read of the summer – now it’s been Booker 2025 shortlisted

Judge Sarah Jessica Parker described whittling down the list as “real agony”

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1 week ago 'I'm a New York Times best selling author and everyone should read these 5 books'

The author of 'blend Da Vinci Code and Murder She Wrote' The Secrets of Still Waters Chasm has also written a trilogy of mystery novels

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1 week ago 'I'm a best selling author and everyone needs to read these 5 books'

Patricia Crisafulli, 65, from Oswego, New York, is a New York Times best selling author and has shared her five favourite books of all time - and her list features all genres

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1 week ago ‘Brilliantly human’: Kiran Desai and David Szalay make Booker prize shortlist

No debut novels are among the six finalists, with established authors including Ben Markovits and previously shortlisted Andrew Miller in the runningChris Power: ‘As a Booker prize judge I helped whittle 153 books down to a shortlist of six. Here’s why you should read them’No debuts appear on this year’s Booker prize shortlist, which is dominated by established authors including previous winner Kiran Desai and previously shortlisted writers David Szalay and Andrew Miller.Ben Markovits, Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura are also on the list, which was announced at an event at the Southbank Centre in central London on Tuesday evening. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies review – how AI could kill us all

If machines become superintelligent we’re toast, say Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. Should we believe them?What if I told you I could stop you worrying about climate change, and all you had to do was read one book? Great, you’d say, until I mentioned that the reason you’d stop worrying was because the book says our species only has a few years before it’s wiped out by superintelligent AI anyway.We don’t know what form this extinction will take exactly – perhaps an energy-hungry AI will let the millions of fusion power stations it has built run hot, boiling the oceans. Maybe it will want to reconfigure the atoms in our bodies into something more useful. There are many possibilities, almost all of them bad, say Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares in If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, and who knows which will come true. But just as you can predict that an ice cube dropped into hot water will melt without knowing where any of its individual molecules will end up, you can be sure an A...

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2 w. ago I always thought narcissism was just a buzzword – until I read a book and realised I was a hapless victim

After reading a new book, ‘My Parent the Peacock’, Charlotte Cripps realised that narcissistic parenting may well have been at play in her large family. She explains how she was cast in the role of the ‘golden child’, and the impact of this on her later life

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2 w. ago 'Martyn booked a hotel room. It was never going to happen...' Read what happened when a 'free bird' met an older woman in our Blind Date

Every week, Femail asks two singletons to report back from their blind date. This week, it was Kelly and Martyn's turn to see if there was a spark between them. Read on to find out what happened...

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3 w. ago Air miles be damned. I say the best way to find out about the joy and complexity of our world is through novels | Pushpinder Khaneka

For me it started with Colombia and Gabriel García Márquez. As I read 200 books from different regions, I gained a clarity news reports seldom giveSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreDear reader, are your shelves heaving under the weight of books by dead white folks? Do your eyes glaze over at the mention of foreign fiction? Is your reading diet missing the vibrant flavours of stories from Africa, Asia and Latin America? Restricting your reading to novels from Europe and North America is like going to an all-you-can-eat Mexican buffet and just eating tortillas. Why do that?I have been getting to know about countries in the global south through literature. Being an intrepid traveller, current events addict and avid reader led me inexorably to read books from around the world. The book that most reeled me in to the ability of literature to open the door to...

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3 w. ago I’ve already read 36 books this year, but this is my standout favourite

This could be the best debut of the year

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3 w. ago Harry Potter fanfiction centred on Draco and Hermione lands historic six

A book based on a widely-read Draco and Hermione fanfiction has reportedly just been offered a six-figure movie deal - and it's left fanfiction readers excited for more

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4 w. ago Best Agatha Christie books to read that spin a classic mystery yarn

It’s a murder on the dancefloor

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4 w. ago Books of the Month: What to read this September, from Arundhati Roy’s searing memoir to Ian McEwan’s sci

Martin Chilton shares his September reading highlights

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