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The best books about being a teenager – according to our experts

Awkwardness and acne are the first things that spring to mind when thinking of adolescence, but they’re not always the full picture. We asked eight of our experts to tell us which book they feel best represents the experience of being a teenager.

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What were you reading in the 90s? 5 literary experts go back in time

What were you like in the 90s? This question is a social media trend right now, with achingly nostalgic slideshows of old photos, set to music.

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New Carnegie Medal winners Megha Majumdar and Yiyun Li love libraries

Novelist Megha Majumdar has won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for her book “A Guardian and a Thief.”

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How I found an unexpected connection to science in the works of Iris Murdoch – by a molecular biophysicist

When I first began appropriating the plots of British-Irish novelist Iris Murdoch’s novels to explain scientific concepts, I never stopped to think about whether Murdoch herself would have approved of such an endeavour.

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The Guardian view on Oasis and sibling rivalry: a variation on an ancient theme

Editorial: The Gallagher brothers might have taken their feuding to extremes, but it is nothing new

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How A.S. Byatt’s northern identity and anger over climate change informed her fiction

A.S. Byatt’s highbrow fiction has a vast, international appeal. The writer, who died in November, was known for her voracious appetite for knowledge and her insatiable curiosity.

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Letter: AS Byatt obituary

David Johnson writes: She admitted, without being boastful, that she had read Proust twice

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Author A.S. Byatt, who wrote the best-seller 'Possession,' dies at 87

Byatt wove history, myth and a sharp eye for human foibles into two dozen books that included the Booker Prize-winning novel "Possession."

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‘I loved the woman I got to know’, says Neil LaBute in tribute to AS Byatt

Dame Antonia Byatt died on Thursday at the age of 87, according to her publisher.

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AS Byatt: a life defined by literature

The Booker prizewinning novelist, who has died aged 87, was intelligent, curious – and warmly supportive of younger writers

The Guardian - UK

AS Byatt obituary

Novelist whose exhilarating genius came into its own with Possession, a worldwide bestseller and winner of the Booker prize

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Author of Possession and The Children’s Book AS Byatt dies aged 87

Writer and critic won the Booker Prize in 1990 for her novel ‘Possession’

The Independent UK

Author Dame Antonia Byatt dies aged 87

Dame Antonia, known as AS Byatt, won the 1990 Booker Prize for romance novel Possession

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AS Byatt, author and critic, dies aged 87

The acclaimed author of novels including Possession and The Children’s Book, has died, her publisher has confirmed

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Three Thousand Years of Longing review: Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton lack chemistry in creaky sci-fi slog

George Miller’s ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ follow-up sags where it should speed and narrows when it should expand

The Guardian - UK

Three Thousand Years of Longing review – heartfelt Aladdinesque adventure for grownups

Idris Elba is longing to tell his story and grant Tilda Swinton the statutory three wishes in George Miller’s heartfelt fantasy

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Film about a genie starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton is partly true, says director at Cannes

George Miller reveals the inside story of his big-screen premiere, Three Thousand Years of Longing, based on an AS Byatt story

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