Review – The Voice of the Century: Kirsten Flagstad (by Ingeborg Solbrekken, translated by Anne Bruce)
‘It’s a staggering achievement, helped partly by Solbrekken’s having written two previous Flagstad books and being an…
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Below, we’ve rounded up 25 of our favourite opening lines in literature. Some are iconic. Some are criminally…
Zibby Owens Just Released Her Fall 2025 Most Anticipated Books List—and There Are Over 150 Titles on It
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Rob Franklin’s ‘Great Black Hope’ Part 4
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Babel Books: The Berlin Bookstore Building Community for Russian Speakers
Natalia Smirnova, the founder of the Russian-language bookstore Babel in Berlin, has been connected to literature since she…
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Oprah’s Book Club has a new pick, but it’s from 2007: See the title
Newly released books often dominate celebrity book clubs, but every now and then, an older title slips through…
A New Book Casts Elvis and the Colonel in a New Light
The story of Elvis Presley is the story of America in the last half of the 20th century,…
I’m writing a book – by Karim Zidan
Welcome to Sports Politika, a media venture founded by investigative journalist and researcher Karim Zidan that strives to…
Bear Grylls’ new book offers a lame, annoying account of Jesus’s life
The adventurer, Special Forces’ soldier, television producer and author of Mud, sweat and tears, True grit and How…
Luigi Mangione is “a story about the American Dream Gone Wrong,” says James Patterson, and he’s writing a book to prove it
James Patterson is one of the most prolific writers working today, and with CNN investigative reporter, Vicky Ward,…
The Names by Florence Knapp audiobook review – a Sliding Doors-style debut | Fiction
How influential is a name? This is the question underpinning The Names, which opens with Cora taking her…