The week’s bestselling books, July 27
Hardcover fiction 1. An Inside Job by Daniel Silva (Harper: $32) An art restorer and legendary spy must…
Brandon Jack’s hilarious book about unruly footballers
A pissant is technically defined as ‘an insignificant or contemptible person or thing’. Not so Brandon Jack’s pissants.…
A novel with impressive scope – The Irish Times
Drayton and Mackenzie Author: Alexander Starritt ISBN-13: 978-1800755260 Publisher: Swift Guideline Price: £16.99 Roland Mackenzie and James Drayton…
self-serving and isolationist – The Irish Times
July means one certain thing. Summer reading lists are upon us – magazine and newspaper editors sit around…
A summer of reading – Engelsberg ideas
Tom Holland, co-host of The Rest is History and translator of Suetonius: The Lives of the Caesars I have…
Miles Franklin 2025: your guide to the shortlist of Australia’s biggest literary prize | Australian books
All dull awards shortlist books that are alike; every important award recognises books that are remarkable in their…
Three Books to Understand Our Ravaged Climate
The summer of 2025 has been a season of climate-driven catastrophes: wildfires in Turkey, flooding in China and…
Austin author’s debut collection captures the complexity of Southern Black life
A Texan fighting a family curse for love, a pregnant preteen defying expectations, two sisters fleeing north for…
Fully Booked at DMPL: Pageturners for any mood
I’ve just checked out the latest book by one of my favorite authors that I’ve been anticipating for…
‘I Want To Burn This Place Down’
It’s the first installment of a new series we’re calling The Show’s Book Club, which is exactly what…
Caroline Magerl Explains Why Illustration Speaks – InReview
In the large Paris hall where the Salon du Livre is held every year, there are a host…
How one fax led to Jaime Daez building the Philippines’ fastest-growing bookstore
Jaime Daez didn’t have much of a business plan when he started selling books: he just wanted to…