The best children’s books for Christmas 2025
Imagination is stirred and laughs are shared in the best books for young readers this winter
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Joy Williams and humanity’s ultimate failure
The author’s new collection of short stories is haunted by animals – and by our failed stewardship of the natural…
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Christmas time is for murder
What exactly is the appeal of the festive crime mystery?
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TS Eliot’s Hollow Men are all around us
The poem, which was published 100 years ago, has beguiled a remarkable array of minds
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Charlie Mackesy’s rules for life
These stories about a boy and his animal friends reveal the futility of trying to foresee what will happen to…
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DH Lawrence and the superiority of fiction
The Goldsmiths Prize Lecture on 100 years of the writer’s seminal essay “Why the Novel Matters”
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Jane Austen and me
On the 250th anniversary of her birth, the great Regency era novelist still offers perceptive lessons in life
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Recovering the lost history of Gaza
Decades of conflict and displacement have obliterated the history of one of the world’s oldest human settlements
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