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The Long Wave: Trinidad and Tobago carnival celebrates African roots

Soca veterans join forces with Afrobeats stars as the diaspora strengthens ties with the motherland. Plus, Angela Davis heads to London

The Guardian - UK

Conflict, imperialism, escape and the rise of Big Tech feature in Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 longlist

Books by renowned authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are among the works selected by a panel of expert judges, along with nine debut writers

The Independent UK

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie review – candid conversations with friends

The author’s first novel since 2013 – a stately sisterhood saga about a group of women whose lives haven’t turned out quite as planned – continually reframes our understanding of the quartet, practically offering four books for the price of one

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Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie review – a tale of four women

The Nigerian-American author returns with an astute and moving exploration of female experience

The Guardian - UK

‘Cancel culture? We should stop it. End of story’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on backlash, writer’s block – and her new baby twins

It’s been 11 years since she published a novel. In that time, the author has lost both parents, seen Trump become president twice – and finally returned to fiction after a bruising reaction to her comments on gender

The Guardian - UK

The best new books coming in 2025 — from Irvine Welsh to Florence Knapp

Irvine Welsh, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Philippe Sands and Naomi Watts are some of the big-name authors with books out this year. But it’s not just well known writers. There’s a legion of brilliant new titles, from thrilling fiction to deep-thinking psychoanalysis and even a book by the woman who made…

Evening Standard

The six books released in 2025 that I can't wait to read

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Curtis Sittenfeld, Daisy Lester rounds up the buzziest titles for this year

The Independent UK

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count was well worth the wait – read my full review

The award-winning authors new novel explores four women’s lives

The Independent UK

‘To confront the anti-gay law is to trouble waters’: the young Nigerian novelist refusing to go by the book

Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s first novel, Blessings, about love in a hostile climate, was written after a life-changing encounter with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Guardian - UK

The 25 Best Novels of 2025 That You Absolutely Need to Read

We're obsessed with these titles by Mona Awad, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Marie Claire

The Long Wave: From the Met Gala to Afcon, 2025 promises to be a bumper year

New Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Michael Jackson biopic and more brilliant Black art and culture coming your way in the next 12 months

The Guardian - UK

Fiction to look out for in 2025

An epic family saga, new novels from Natasha Brown and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, plus a David Szalay masterpiece… the coming year looks good

The Guardian - UK

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Pope Francis: the books to look forward to in 2025

New work from Zadie Smith, a memoir from Bill Gates, plus the third instalment in Rebecca Yarros’s romantasy series - here’s the biggest fiction and nonfiction for the year ahead

The Guardian - UK

The best books to look out for in 2025, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Adam Kay

2025: Start planning your reading list for next year with Katie Rosseinsky’s guide to the new novels and non-fiction you shouldn’t miss

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My Journey Through Literature: Emma Watson's Top 10 Book Recommendations

Discover Emma Watson's top 10 book recommendations, a literary journey that will transport you into the world of Hermione and expand your reading horizons.

Evening Standard

Best contemporary novels to read in 2024, from Wandering Souls to Hamnet

Start the year off right with some 21st century classics

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Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business

The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?

The Guardian - UK

Picture books for children – reviews

Benji Davies returns with more coastal charms, lonely animals find acceptance – plus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s tale about a toddler

The Conversation

20 years after the publication of 'Purple Hibiscus,' a generation of African writers have followed in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's footsteps

Twenty years ago, in October 2003, 26-year-old Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the North American publishing scene with her debut novel,“ Purple Hibiscus.”

The Guardian - UK

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘García Márquez taught me the exquisite power of stories’

The Nigerian writer on Enid Blyton’s mysteries, the power of Chinua Achebe and the pleasure of reading magazines

The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Fraud by Zadie Smith and Holly by Stephen King.

Evening Standard

OPINION - I left my job at The Guardian because I was no longer allowed to say what I wanted to say

I suffered the consequences of expressing a view contrary to the liberal orthodoxy

The Guardian - UK

‘Pandora! I adore ya!’: the best descriptions of first love in literature

The last word, our series about emotions in books, looks at early flutters of the heart this month, from Adrian Mole and Malorie Blackman to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

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