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Features

Getting started with audiobooks: a beginner's guide

Reading lists

Audiobooks everyone should listen to, as chosen by our readers

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Quizzes

Quiz: can you guess these famous audiobook narrators?

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Interviews

Lauren Groff interview: 'It's necessary to me that there's sex in a book'

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How to make giving a book extra special

The best love stories for hopeless romantics this Christmas

8 books to inspire your next hobby

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How books shaped The Beatles

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Lightbulb moments: Damon Galgut on writing The Promise

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Where to start reading Richard Powers' books

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Lightbulb moments: Nadifa Mohamed on writing The Fortune Men

News

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Extracts

The Promise by Damon Galgut: read the first chapter

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Books to build your perfect Christmas dinner

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How a 17-year-old newspaper article inspired Nadifa Mohamed to Booker success

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How to start building your classics collection

Daisy May Cooper: 'I love being famous!'

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Passing: how the Nella Larsen book and the Netflix film compare

Books that feel like a warm hug

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The best Halloween costume ideas from books

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Here Too Spring Comes to Us with Open Arms by Caleb Femi

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Terrifying tales: Margaret is overcome by the impulse to kill her husband…

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Books you'll love based on your favourite horror film

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9 books exploring the trope of the ‘unhinged woman’ to read this Halloween

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12 Vintage books that make perfect Christmas gifts

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How Merlin Sheldrake fascinated us with fungi

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