• Book Review: ‘When All the Men Wore Hats,’ by Susan Cheever
    Sunday, October 26, 2025 from NYT > Books
    In “When All the Men Wore Hats,” Susan Cheever considers her father as a writer and a role model, recounting the stories behind his celebrated stories.
  • Philip Pullman Brings Lyra’s Story to a Close in ‘The Rose Field’
    Sunday, October 26, 2025 from NYT > Books
    A plea for humanism and honesty, “The Rose Field” wraps up the fantastical saga set in motion with “His Dark Materials.”
  • When will the new Kindle Scribes come out?
    Sunday, October 26, 2025 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
    Amazon does not have long to release the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and the Kindle Scribe 2025 model with a front-light. The post When will the new Kindle Scribes come out? first appeared on Good e-Reader .
  • I listen to audiobooks every week — these are the best and worst I've read
    Sunday, October 26, 2025 from Daily Express :: Books Feed
    I love listening to an audiobook while out and about, but it's been very hit or miss for me over the past year. Here are some of my favourites - and some to avoid, in my opinion.
  • Tyler Mitchell Breaks Down Three Photos From His New Book
    Sunday, October 26, 2025 from NYT > Books
    Erica Ackerberg, a Times photo editor, calls the photographer Tyler Mitchell to chat about three photos from his new book, “Wish This Was Real.”
  • “Silk Roads: A Flavor Odyssey with Recipes from Baku to Beijing” by Anna Ansari
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
    In Silk Roads, food writer Anna Ansari connects areas and cuisines not typically associated in English-language cookbooks, traveling […]
  • What ‘Day After’ for Gaza?
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
    On Friday, October 10, when Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire in Gaza, I heard from a Palestinian friend in the Strip. Gaza had been celebrating since the news broke, but grief was never far away. “Our feelings are mixed,” he...
  • Do Authors Really Want The Truth?
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
      There are so many conflicts of interest that authors must contend with that it is not clear how a writer gets any honest answers or feedback from anyone. People who are personally close or hired by the author simply do not feel...
  • Phyllis Trible, 92, Dies; Studied the Bible Through a Feminist Lens
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from NYT > Books
    An influential scholar, she challenged centuries of biblical interpretation that presumed that women were unequal to men in the eyes of God.
  • Exclusive book extract: Read Frederick Forsyth's sequel to The Odessa File
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from Daily Express :: Books Feed
    Opening with a horrifying terror attack and a young journalist mistaken for his dead father, the long-awaited sequel to former Express legend Freddie Forsyth's 1972 blockbuster The Odessa File is every bit as dramatic as you'd expect......
  • ‘The Interview’: Anthony Hopkins on Quitting Drinking and Finding God
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from NYT > Books
    The actor, now 87, talks about his childhood, the epiphanies in his life and more.
  • Sizzling New Romance Books
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from NYT > Books
    Our critic on four sizzling new releases.
  • ‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from Guardian Unlimited Books
    Bloodthirsty ghosts, sadistic supercomputers, creepy childhood games ... Mariana Enríquez, Paul Tremblay, Daisy Johnson and others on the tales that kept them up at night The Summer People by Shirley Jackson I read this years ago and...
  • The top 5 books everyone should read at least once - including 2 by the same author
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from Daily Express :: Books Feed
    Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice comes in at second place.
  • “Mother Mary Comes To Me” by Arundhati Roy
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
    Arundhati Roy’s much-awaited memoir, Mother Mary Comes To Me, tackles Roy’s writing career, India’s sweeping political instability, and […]
  • Two Nights with Malala: The Nobel Laureate on Love, Activism and Having Fun
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from NYT > Books
    Basketball and Dua Lipa are on the schedule during a New York jaunt with the Nobel laureate, whose intimate memoir finds her juggling activism and married life.
  • Smudge and Saja in a Savage Battle for Survival!
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
    Spoiler: Not really, they’re just playing around. But they sure do look fierce, don’t they. I think Smudge is actually happy to have a kitten to tussle with, since Sugar and Spice hate it when he tries to do that. Saja, on...
  • Passing the Word Around
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
    • Yesterday brought news that The Clues in the Fjord , by Finnish author Satu Rämö, has won the 2025 Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year. That book, which judges described as “a sophisticated and atmospheric...
  • Books Our Editors Loved This Week
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from NYT > Books
    Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
  • Kindles Having Problems Downloading eBooks After Software Update
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from The eBook Reader Blog
    I’ve been seeing a lot of reports online lately, especially over on Amazon’s Kindle forum, of people having problems downloading ebooks to Kindles. It seems to be a fairly widespread issue caused by one of the recent software...
  • In Which I Make a Bold Yet Defensible Assertion
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
    I assert to you that my little town of Bradford, Ohio is in fact the literature capital of Darke County, the county in which I live, and also probably of Miami County, which I don’t live in, but which Bradford is also part (the...
  • Interview With Best-Selling Author Jeffrey Stephens
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
    1. What inspired you to write this book?  I had written six espionage thrillers, a murder mystery and a father-son treasure hunt that was dear to my heart. I decided to call upon my decades of experience as an attorney to...
  • Chris Kraus’s New Novel Will Keep Her Fans Guessing
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from NYT > Books
    “Giving myself freedom” has been Chris Kraus’s goal as a writer, whether in autofiction about her romantic life or in her new and surprising “working-class saga.”
  • How I Learned to Love Scary Children’s Books
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from NYT > Books
    I was terrified of the Old Elephant King in “The Story of Babar.” My daughter was freaked out by “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” Then came my niece.
  • Wings of Wonder
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
    Let your fantasies take flight with these dragon tales from our October Hot Off the Press list!
  • IndieView with Jill MacLean, author of The Arrows of Fealty
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
    I know one or two writers who claim writing is – or should be – fun. While it has wonderful moments – a vivid image comes to mind, a surprising simile, a perfect line of dialogue, and I think yes! … Continue reading → The...
  • THE GREYHOUND DIARY by Judy Montagu Edited by Anna Mathias: Rip-roaring tale of how the illegitimate daughter of an Earl became a Texas rodeo star
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Books | Mail Online
    - and then turned down a suitor worth $100 million
  • I read every day - here are my top 5 books to read this year - 2 by same author
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Daily Express :: Books Feed
    These are the books I think everyone should read in the final few months of 2025.
  • Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Guardian Unlimited Books
    The healing power of gardens; celebrating an abolitionist; hope in the toughest times; a gladiator romantasy and more The Butterfly House by Harry Woodgate, Andersen, £12.99 Miss Brown’s wild garden scares most people, but when Holly...
  • Susan Straight's 'Sacrament' — her best novel yet — is an ode to California nurses during COVID surge
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
    Susan Straight, considered the bard of overlooked California, sets her 10th novel, 'Sacrament,' in a San Bernardino hospital during the COVID-19 surge in 2020.
  • The UK’s Booker Prizes Open a £50,000 Children’s Award
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
    The Booker Prize Foundation says that its newly announced Children’s Prize has been three years in the planning. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘An Award That Will Champion Future Classics’...
  • THE SURGEON, THE MIDWIFE, THE QUACK by Alanna Skuse: Think you're having a baby? Bite your husband's bottom
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Books | Mail Online
    Kathryn Hughes dives into the farcical and dangerous world of early modern medicine.
  • Italy in Germany: Bologna’s ‘Grand Tour’ at Frankfurter Buchmesse
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
    The 'Grand Tour' of curated illustration work is well underway from Bologna, having spent the week at Frankfurt Book Fair. The post Italy in Germany: Bologna’s ‘Grand Tour’ at Frankfurter Buchmesse appeared first on...
  • Dazzling debut fiction: Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy, Boy from the North Country by Sam Sussman, Our Precious Wars by Perrine Tripier
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Books | Mail Online
    Sara Lawrence reviews the best debut fiction out this month
  • Shockingly good literary fiction: MONA'S EYES by Thomas Schlesser, LOVE DIVINE by Ysenda Maxtone Graham, VAIM by Jon Fosse
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Books | Mail Online
    Stephanie Cross reviews some of the best literary fiction out this month
  • 10 Cozy Fall Books That Feel Like a Hug
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from NYT > Books
    Witty mysteries, cottagecore fantasies and bighearted classics provide a dose of warmth and comfort to bolster you through the long, cold nights ahead.
  • Keira Knightley takes on Kid's Fiction: BEAR'S NAP by Emily Gravett, I LOVE YOU JUST THE SAME by Keira Knightley, THE LONE HUSKY by Hannah Gold
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Books | Mail Online
    Sally Morris reviews the best children's books out this month
  • Criminally good Classic Crime: Scandalize my Name by Fiona Sinclair, Beattie Cavendish and the White Pearl Club by Mary-Jane Riley, This Little Measure by Sara Woods
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Books | Mail Online
    Barry Turner reviews Classic Crime
  • Amazon is asking authors to verify their identity on KDP
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
    Amazon is sending out many emails asking authors to verify their identities with Kindle Direct Publishing. The post Amazon is asking authors to verify their identity on KDP first appeared on Good e-Reader .
  • A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke review – a brilliant, blunt and beautiful memoir
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Guardian Unlimited Books
    The actor on being called ugly, telling Johnny Rotten to F-off, and striking gold at Cannes Kathy Burke’s mother, Bridget, died of stomach cancer when she was 18 months old; she writes that it made her “feel dead famous” in her...
  • At Frankfurt, PRH Grupo Editorial’s Roberto Banchik: Mexico’s Opportunity in Exports
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
    After 2024’s big unit sales for books, the Mexican market, says Roberto Banchik, is working on transportation and distribution costs, and piracy, amid industry consolidation. The post At Frankfurt, PRH Grupo Editorial’s Roberto Banchik:...
  • PW Studio: Debbie Bishop’s Magical Worlds
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
    Fantasy and fae magic abound in Bishop’s Pillywiggin series.
  • Michael Kardos Finds His Groove
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
    The author took inspiration from the Jersey Shore of his youth—with its Haunted Mansion and legendary music scene—for his latest novel.
  • How ‘Deeper Than the Ocean’ by Mirta Ojito Got Made
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
    An inside look at the publication process for the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s debut novel
  • What Art Is For: PW Talks with Camille Bordas
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
  • Winnie-the-Pooh at 100: PW Talks with Gyles Brandreth
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
  • Play Ball: PW Talks with Susan Canavan
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
    After leaving her editing job at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2019, the editor turned agent found a niche in selling popular nonfiction titles—especially in the sports space.
  • Book Deals: Week of October 27, 2025
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
  • Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from Guardian Unlimited Books
    Children will help judge the new prize along with children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce • ‘The Children’s Booker prize will tell kids that they matter’: Frank Cottrell-Boyce The Booker prize foundation has launched a major new...
  • The Children’s Booker prize will tell kids that they matter
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from Guardian Unlimited Books
    As the number of children reading for pleasure hits a record low, the new award highlights its importance for wellbeing, and will give away thousands of books Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award At the end of the movie...
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