Amazon is giving shoppers the chance to bag three months of audiobooks for just 99p and the options are seemingly endless. Audible is the shopping giant’s audiobook service and would usually set you back £7.99 a month for one credit which you can cash in for any book on the site – which includes bundles … Read more
The idea of “going home” is, for many members of the LGBTQ+ community, a complicated one. Take, for example, Akúa, the protagonist of Christina Cooke’s debut novel, Broughtupsy, who returns to Jamaica from Canada to connect with her sister after the loss of their younger brother. Akúa is soon forced to question what it means … Read more
We like to think of this list of the best books of 2024 as the anti-algorithm, a collection of highly specific, highly individual, and somewhat eclectic books. (Our interests are varied! Make no mistake.) At a moment when the act of curation threatens to be overwhelmed by whatever cookies you’ve unflinchingly accepted to track your … Read more
“Like Scheherazade…I know I can only be powerful if people are listening, and I must be powerful if I want to survive,” Cameron Russell writes in How to Make Herself Agreebale to Everyone: A Memoir. When we meet Russell, who would become a world-famous supermodel by the mid-2000s, she is still a sporty teenage Bostonite … Read more
Millions of holidaymakers have chosen a destination based on a book they’ve read – with “Under the Tuscan Sun”, by Frances Mayes, named as the top inspiration. A study of 2,000 adults found one in four have booked a holiday in order to visit a location referenced in a novel. Some of the most popular … Read more
Putting the book together and conceiving of arguing something over various essays was kind of a different process, though. There are so many different threads in the book. In a poetry book, I can kind of just lay all those threads out, whereas with this one, I felt more compelled to do some braiding and … Read more
In her new memoir, Burn Book, Kara Swisher cites a 2014 profile that dubbed her “Silicon Valley’s Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist.” She might prefer to downplay the first and emphasize the second. Some people would switch that around. But there is no dispute about Swisher’s impact: When it comes to tech punditry, she’s at … Read more
I have also noticed that almost every woman has struggled with disordered eating somewhere along the way in their life, and at a clinical level it is also highly, highly prevalent. And yet I don’t see the issue being seated in the public intellectual sphere with the same kind of serious attention that other mental … Read more
Gabrielle Korn’s first book Everyone (Else) is Perfect, a memoir about—among other things—the author’s rise from Autostraddle columnist to the youngest-ever editor-in-chief of Nylon Media, came out three years ago during the height of the pandemic, a notoriously rough time for debut authors. Now, she’s watching her first novel Yours for the Taking, a work … Read more
Inside story of real-life spy who discovered Holocaust – but went completely ignored (Image: Getty) Yet Winthrop Pickard Bell’s claims largely fell on deaf ears and a genuine opportunity to avert global calamity was missed, a new book claims. “Winthrop was the first who left a publishing trail warning about Hitler’s plans,” says Jason Bell, … Read more
