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Another day of darkening blankness ...

Tibon, an eyewitness to mass-murder in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, uses the day as a lens through which to view recent Israeli history ...

The author has been named winner of the LGBTQ book prize for his second novel, having won the Polari first book award in 2023. This year's debut award goes to Nicola Dinan, with Sarah Hagger-Holt taking the children's prize ...

Share of children's books featuring characters who fall into this category fell from 30% in 2022 to 17% in 2023, CLPE survey finds ...

Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month ...

The charisma and brutality of the real-life Trinidadian gangster is seen through the eyes of four women who knew him ...

Fathers and Fugitives by SJ Naudé; Untold Lessons by Maddalena Vaglio Tanet; A Man with No Title by Xavier Le Clerc; Command Performance by Jean Echenoz ...

This thoughtful novel about a family trying to breathe clean air and not spend too long on their devices is mesmerising and scary ...

An environmental scientist goes in search of a hidden aquifer, in an action-packed novel that reads like a movie pitch ...

An aspiring young artist's journey makes for a critique of the art world, in novel form ...