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I’m an audiobook obsessive, and these are my must-listen Audible releases for April and May

These are the six audiobooks I’m downloading for spring

The Independent UK

Books to look out for in 2026 – fiction

Maggie O’Farrell, Yann Martel and Julian Barnes are among the authors publishing new novels this year

The Guardian - UK

Yael van der Wouden : ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy cured my fear of aliens’

The Safekeep author on her secret childhood reading, falling in love with Elizabeth Strout and why she keeps coming back to Zadie Smith

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Lily King: ‘What is life without love?’

The American author discusses our need for fiction in an age of disconnection, the challenges of growing up with 14 step-siblings, and why she’s going ‘all in’ on romance

The Guardian - UK

Where to start with: Elizabeth Strout

A guide to the Pulitzer-winning novelist’s tales of small-town life, family secrets, and fraught relationships

The Guardian - UK

Women’s prize for fiction 2025: six experts review the shortlisted novels

From a longlist of 16, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2025 Women’s prize for fiction. Our experts review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on June 12.

The Conversation

The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 has gone to a debut author – here’s where to read the winning book

The winning novel is “a classic in the making”

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Elizabeth Strout and Miranda July are among finalists for the Women's Prize for Fiction

American authors Elizabeth Strout and Miranda July are among finalists for the Women’s Prize for Fiction

The Independent UK

Miranda July and Elizabeth Strout shortlisted for the Women’s prize for fiction

American authors of All Fours and Tell Me Everything are competing for the 30th award alongside four other novels highlighting ‘the importance of human connection’

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

Amazon’s Book of the Year 2024 and similar reads to dive into

From best-selling romances to non-fiction marvels

Evening Standard

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout review – characters that never grow old

Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton return, the former now in a retirement community, in the author’s understated but hugely rewarding study of small-town life

The Guardian - UK

Sally Rooney, Hanif Kureishi, Elizabeth Strout: the best new books for Autumn

Discover the best new books this Autumn, from gripping novels to insightful memoirs

Evening Standard

Elizabeth Strout: ‘I would never ask someone to read my books!’

The Pulitzer winner on rereading Virginia Woolf, falling out of love with John Cheever, and the Pushkin story that made her cry

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Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout review – when Olive Kitteridge met Lucy Barton

The worlds of Strout’s previous books converge in this quietly stunning novel of interlocking stories

The Independent UK

Oprah Winfrey reveals her latest book club pick

Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick will be a story of familiar faces — in more ways than one

The Guardian - UK

Elizabeth Strout: ‘All ordinary people are extraordinary’

The Pulitzer prize winner on uniting Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton in her new novel, her unfathomable dreams, and how she went from ‘blabbermouth’ to writer

The Independent UK

Fall is bringing fantasy (and romantasy), literary fiction, politics and Taylor-ed book offerings

Not even a presidential election is likely to slow the wave of fantasy novels that has been building the past few years

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The best new novels for autumn 2024, from Sally Rooney to Jonathan Coe and Haruki Murakami

The biggest names are back in a stellar season for fiction, with rip-roaring feminist horror, revenge tales, family sagas, spy romps and more. Here’s our essential guide

The Guardian - UK

Beach books at the ready: authors pick their essential summer reads

From newly published novels to timeless classics, Elizabeth Strout, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Irvine Welsh, Tessa Hadley and other writers choose their holiday favourites

The Guardian - UK

Married to the mob: the rise of the smartphone in fiction

They interrupt narrative and disrupt plot – no wonder novelists have been slow to warm to mobile phones. But a new generation is putting technology at the heart of their work

Tribune News Service

Review: 'Pete and Alice in Maine' asks, 'Can this marriage be saved?'

FICTION: An insightful, wry novel finds a family trying to heal when they flee the COVID-19 pandemic.

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NoViolet Bulawayo and Margo Jefferson join ‘exciting’ Rathbones Folio prize shortlist

The newly formatted prize will, for the first time, name winners in fiction, nonfiction and poetry and the shortlist includes writers from across the world

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Holiday books: Fiction

“The Marriage Portrait,” by Maggie O’Farrell. (Knopf, $28.)

The Conversation

How to win the Booker prize: is there a formula for ‘the finest in fiction’?

They say that everyone has a book in them. But how about a Booker prize? That’s probably what the six shortlisted authors of the Booker prize 2022 will be wondering as they count down the days to the live-streamed awards ceremony.

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