October, 2019 - theguardianbook

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theguardianbook journal in October, 2019.

6:00a	theguardianbook	Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy review – a fascinating experiment
8:00a	theguardianbook	Nobody by Alice Oswald review – given up to the fateful waves
9:41a	theguardianbook	Ann Patchett on her latest novel and facing down Amazon – books podcast
12:54p	theguardianbook	Reading group: which Doris Lessing book should we read in October?
2:02p	theguardianbook	Obscenity judge's copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover to stay in UK
3:39p	theguardianbook	Penguin Random House defends Zhivago novel against plagiarism claim
6:45p	theguardianbook	Jo Lloyd wins BBC national short story award for 'timeless' tale

2nd

6:00a	theguardianbook	Wuthering depths: the Brontë country graphic novel about floods and fracking
6:30a	theguardianbook	This Life and Outgrowing God review – heaven, atheism and what gives life meaning
8:00a	theguardianbook	Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky review – lost in the woods
9:00a	theguardianbook	Glitch by Lee Rourke review – an unflinching study of grief
11:00a	theguardianbook	The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina review – where murder goes unpunished
1:00p	theguardianbook	Top 10 books about black radicalism
8:00p	theguardianbook	Lucy Ellmann's long sentence leads to Goldsmiths shortlist

3rd

5:00a	theguardianbook	The 10 biggest books of autumn 2019
5:10a	theguardianbook	The language of politics is 'shallow and threadbare', says poet laureate
6:30a	theguardianbook	Face It by Debbie Harry review – rock'n'roll stories to burn
8:00a	theguardianbook	Will by Jeroen Olyslaegers review – war’s moral darkness
9:00a	theguardianbook	Landmark poems of the last century
11:00a	theguardianbook	Now We Have Your Attention by Jack Shenker review
12:54p	theguardianbook	Philip Pullman attacks politicians claiming to know the 'will of the people'
1:00p	theguardianbook	Wicked wonder: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events at 20
2:45p	theguardianbook	Can you have 'collaboration' without 'collaborators'?
4:30p	theguardianbook	Sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz branded 'lurid and titillating' by survivor's stepson

4th

6:30a	theguardianbook	Grand Union by Zadie Smith review – endlessly various short stories
8:00a	theguardianbook	Guest House for Young Widows by Azadeh Moaveni review – life as an Isis bride
9:00a	theguardianbook	Life stories: books about a planet in peril
9:00a	theguardianbook	A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier review – women’s struggle for freedom
10:00a	theguardianbook	Shoshana Zuboff: ‘Surveillance capitalism is an assault on human autonomy’

5th

6:30a	theguardianbook	Patience by Toby Litt review – a yearning to connect
7:00a	theguardianbook	How to write a Booker contender – by Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and others
8:00a	theguardianbook	Nobel prize in literature sets sights on diversity after year of scandal
8:00a	theguardianbook	Jackie Kay selects Britain's 10 best BAME writers
9:00a	theguardianbook	Diary of a small town sensation: how the Wimpy Kid author built his dream bookshop
11:00a	theguardianbook	Burning down the house: the bittersweet appeal of break-up literature
11:00a	theguardianbook	Shelf Life by Livia Franchini review – an arresting, lyrical debut

6th

6:00a	theguardianbook	We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer review – a life-ch
10:00a	theguardianbook	The Private Life of Lord Byron by Antony Peattie review – portrait of a paradox

7th

1:02a	theguardianbook	Heather Rose: 'When I get lost in my imagination I don’t feel the pain'
6:00a	theguardianbook	The Cockroach by Ian McEwan review – a Brexit farce with legs
7:59a	theguardianbook	Afternoons With the Blinds Drawn by Brett Anderson review – sharp and sensitive
10:00a	theguardianbook	Poem of the week: When winter comes by Jane Clarke
12:28p	theguardianbook	Not the Booker prize: vote now for the 2019 winner
2:00p	theguardianbook	Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
3:09p	theguardianbook	Rare Jane Austen letter to sister to be sold at auction
4:14p	theguardianbook	JD Salinger exhibition to unveil photographs, letters and notebooks

8th

6:00a	theguardianbook	Equal: A Story of Women, Men and Money by Carrie Gracie – review
8:00a	theguardianbook	The best recent thrillers roundup – review
10:39a	theguardianbook	'I want world domination!' Lucy Ellmann on her Booker behemoth Ducks, Newburyport – books podcast
12:12p	theguardianbook	Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook is our Reading group book for October
2:58p	theguardianbook	Jonathan Franzen: online rage is stopping us tackling the climate crisis
6:46p	theguardianbook	Mario Vargas Llosa: Peru's suspended congress are 'semi-illiterate swindlers'

9th

6:30a	theguardianbook	Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone, Vol Three by Charles Moore – review
7:59a	theguardianbook	Deep River by Karl Marlantes review – an epic tale of migrant struggle
10:59a	theguardianbook	Who Am I Again? by Lenny Henry review – a raw, touching memoir
2:44p	theguardianbook	Top 10 books about Europe
3:36p	theguardianbook	Vintage filth: a guide to history’s rudest texts

10th

6:30a	theguardianbook	A Day Like Today by John Humphrys review – 'I like arguing'
7:59a	theguardianbook	The River Capture by Mary Costello review – audacious literary ventriloquism
8:32a	theguardianbook	Two Nobel literature prizes to be awarded after sexual assault scandal
10:38a	theguardianbook	Lost chapter of world's first novel found in Japanese storeroom
11:00a	theguardianbook	The Brothers York by Thomas Penn review – a thrilling history that resonates today
11:03a	theguardianbook	Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke win Nobel prizes in literature
12:24p	theguardianbook	Nobel prize in literature: Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke win – live
4:06p	theguardianbook	Olga Tokarczuk: the dreadlocked feminist winner the Nobel needed
5:36p	theguardianbook	Peter Handke: an adversarial talent and controversial Nobel laureate

11th

6:00a	theguardianbook	New York's Strand bookstore fights back over landmark status
6:30a	theguardianbook	Rusty Brown by Chris Ware review – a treasure trove of invention
7:00a	theguardianbook	'My ties to England have loosened': John le Carré on Britain, Boris and Brexit
8:00a	theguardianbook	Excellent Essex by Gillian Darley – a long-overdue celebration
8:35a	theguardianbook	Not the Booker prize 2019: Lara Williams wins with Supper Club
9:00a	theguardianbook	Nnedi Okorafor: ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide made me laugh myself to tears’
11:00a	theguardianbook	How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi review – a brilliantly simple argument
12:03p	theguardianbook	David Keenan's Troubles novel For the Good Times wins Gordon Burn prize
1:00p	theguardianbook	How the internet is changing language as we know it (ikr lol)
3:16p	theguardianbook	We were promised a less Eurocentric Nobel. We got two laureates from Europe \| Maya Jaggi

12th

6:30a	theguardianbook	Akin by Emma Donoghue review – the ties that bind
8:00a	theguardianbook	Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister by Jung Chang review – at the heart of 20th-century China
1:00p	theguardianbook	Bodies in left luggage: Peter James on Brighton's grisly past

13th

6:00a	theguardianbook	Face It by Debbie Harry; Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith – review
7:00a	theguardianbook	Jung Chang: ‘To be a writer was the most dangerous profession’
10:00a	theguardianbook	Booker prize shortlist 2019: who to put your money on

14th

5:30a	theguardianbook	Rich rewards: the best books on how banking rules the world
6:00a	theguardianbook	Attlee and Churchill review – a deft account of a terrific double act
6:00a	theguardianbook	Two years on, the literature of #MeToo is coming of age \| Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
8:00a	theguardianbook	Collected Stories by Elizabeth Bowen review – ghosts, comedy and a touch of Spark
10:00a	theguardianbook	Grand Union by Zadie Smith review – wisdom, heart… but an uneven collection
11:39a	theguardianbook	Poem of the week: Sonnets from Idea's Mirror by Michael Drayton
12:58p	theguardianbook	Sanditon: why are Austen fans so enraged by Andrew Davies' ending?
2:00p	theguardianbook	Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
9:53p	theguardianbook	Harold Bloom, author and literary critic, dies at age 89
11:23p	theguardianbook	Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share Booker prize 2019

15th

6:00a	theguardianbook	The Triumph of Injustice review – how to wrest control from multinationals
7:52a	theguardianbook	Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo: why do we have two Booker winners? - books podcast
8:00a	theguardianbook	A Puff of Smoke by Sarah Lippett review – growing pains
11:04a	theguardianbook	Is The Golden Notebook a feminist novel?
3:45p	theguardianbook	Bid to repatriate James Joyce's remains ahead of Ulysses centenary
4:25p	theguardianbook	Backlash after Booker awards prize to two authors
5:00p	theguardianbook	Booker winners Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood on breaking the rules

16th

6:30a	theguardianbook	Me by Elton John review – hilariously self-lacerating
8:00a	theguardianbook	The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen review – confessions of a literary outsider
11:00a	theguardianbook	Judging the Booker prize: 'I'm proud of our decision'
11:00a	theguardianbook	We Fight Fascists by Daniel Sonabend review – sabotage and street scuffles
11:23a	theguardianbook	Stormzy's #Merky Books to publish Malorie Blackman's memoir
12:42p	theguardianbook	Top 10 lighthouses in fiction
1:05p	theguardianbook	Peter Handke hits out at criticism of Nobel win

17th

6:30a	theguardianbook	Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré review – thriller laced with Brexit fury
8:01a	theguardianbook	The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott review – an impressive debut
8:30a	theguardianbook	TS Eliot prize unveils shortlist of 'fearless poets'
8:58a	theguardianbook	The Wayward Girls by Amanda Mason – a near-perfect ghost story
10:00a	theguardianbook	Kathleen Jamie: 'Nature writing has been colonised by white men'
10:52a	theguardianbook	Guided by a ‘lodestar’ – what does Boris Johnson mean?
11:00a	theguardianbook	The Age of Football by David Goldblatt review – a tour de force
12:40p	theguardianbook	Plan to exhume James Joyce’s remains fires international ‘battle of the bones’
4:34p	theguardianbook	British lead nominations for world's richest children's book prize

18th

6:30a	theguardianbook	Indistractable by Nir Eyal review – letting tech off the hook
6:58a	theguardianbook	House rules: Jess Phillips on the best books to decode the language of politics
8:00a	theguardianbook	The Undying and Notes Made While Falling review – how to write about being ill
8:58a	theguardianbook	The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney by Okechukwu Nzelu review – coming of age in modern Britain
9:00a	theguardianbook	Fearless, free and feminist: the enduring appeal of Jack Reacher
10:58a	theguardianbook	The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
1:07p	theguardianbook	Paperback magick: Augusten Burroughs reveals he's a lifelong witch

19th

6:30a	theguardianbook	Rain by Mary and Bryan Talbot review – climate-crisis graphic novel
7:00a	theguardianbook	Bernardine Evaristo: 'These are unprecedented times for black female writers'
8:00a	theguardianbook	Against Memoir and Other Stories by Michelle Tea review – punchy self-revelation
8:58a	theguardianbook	Trump the predator
10:01a	theguardianbook	'Oh man, she's back': Elizabeth Strout on the return of Olive Kitteridge
1:00p	theguardianbook	Patti Smith: ‘Reading Mark Twain gave me such anxiety I threw up’
5:00p	theguardianbook	Hisham Matar: ‘Writing is both the easiest and the most difficult thing’
5:00p	theguardianbook	Book clinic: which books do you recommend for our blended families?

20th

6:00a	theguardianbook	Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow review – how the great white predators stick together
8:00a	theguardianbook	The Glossy Years by Nicholas Coleridge review – the rise and rise of a gilded youth
9:00a	theguardianbook	Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell review – fascinating study of why we misread those we don’t
12:00p	theguardianbook	Find Me by André Aciman review – a beautiful conclusion for Elio and Oliver
12:30p	theguardianbook	Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest work to remain unseen until 2114
8:30p	theguardianbook	Fiona Benson wins Forward prize with Greek myth poems for #MeToo age

21st

6:00a	theguardianbook	Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism and the Decade of Greed by David Farber – review
8:00a	theguardianbook	Agent Running in the Field review – Brexit fuels John le Carré’s fury
9:00a	theguardianbook	Poem of the week: The Soul of Gerontius by John Henry Newman
12:09p	theguardianbook	Swedish Academy defends Peter Handke's controversial Nobel win
12:46p	theguardianbook	'Animals feared him': fake David Cameron memoir cover spotted in bookshop
2:00p	theguardianbook	Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?

22nd

6:01a	theguardianbook	Hell Is Round the Corner by Tricky review – indomitable spirit
8:00a	theguardianbook	Young adult books roundup – reviews
10:51a	theguardianbook	The history of the book, from Gilgamesh to now – books podcast
10:52a	theguardianbook	'Only a quid': woman reunited with childhood book in museum shop
12:08p	theguardianbook	Struggling with The Golden Notebook? The hard work is worth it
4:25p	theguardianbook	Bernardine Evaristo doubles lifetime sales in five days after joint Booker win

23rd

5:00a	theguardianbook	James Joyce’s words haunt Dublin. It doesn’t need his bones \| Mark O’Connell
5:00a	theguardianbook	'Truth is the best story': inside Gene Weingarten's extraordinary new book
6:30a	theguardianbook	Stillicide by Cynan Jones review – stunning meditation on climate crisis
8:00a	theguardianbook	A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles by Ned Palmer review – a miraculous resurgence
9:00a	theguardianbook	Top 10 books about the night
11:00a	theguardianbook	A Moth to a Flame by Stig Dagerman review – Swedish menace
4:41p	theguardianbook	President Supervillain: behind the alarmingly accurate Trump-Marvel mashup

24th

6:01a	theguardianbook	The hunt for Shakespeare's library: 'I couldn’t stop looking if I wanted to'
6:31a	theguardianbook	Human Compatible by Stuart Russell review – AI and our future
8:00a	theguardianbook	In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt review – a shapeshifting quest
10:10a	theguardianbook	Scroll depicting early life of Buddha goes on display for first time
10:41a	theguardianbook	Meet Adrenaline: Asterix gets first female hero in 60-year history
11:00a	theguardianbook	Royals by Emma Forrest review – love, trauma and teen dreams

25th

6:30a	theguardianbook	Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout review – triumphant return of Olive Kitteridge
8:00a	theguardianbook	Hollow Places by Christopher Hadley review – dragons and the nature of history
9:00a	theguardianbook	Candice Carty-Williams: ‘Nothing can change my mind, I’d like to see a book try’
10:00a	theguardianbook	Forward prize winner Fiona Benson: ‘It’s still taboo to talk about rape and women’s bodies’

26th

6:30a	theguardianbook	How to Be a Dictator by Frank Dikötter review – the cult of personality
7:00a	theguardianbook	Dear Europe: letters from JK Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Mary Beard and more
8:00a	theguardianbook	The Life and Loves of E Nesbit review – melodrama and menage a trois
9:00a	theguardianbook	Julian Barnes: ‘Do you expect Europe to cut us a good deal? It’s so childish’
9:00a	theguardianbook	Children’s and teens roundup: the best new picture books and novels
4:01p	theguardianbook	Diaries expose ‘strong brew’ of Ripley novelist Patricia Highsmith’s dark thoughts
5:00p	theguardianbook	Emma Forrest: ‘I have a shelf just of the books my exes gave me’

27th

6:00a	theguardianbook	The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes review – out of the surgery, into the boudoir
7:30a	theguardianbook	The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger review – astute and funny
8:00a	theguardianbook	Checkpoint Charlie by Iain MacGregor review – Berlin’s secrets and spies
8:30a	theguardianbook	The Mizzy by Paul Farley review – soaring and stirring
8:44a	theguardianbook	From epic myths to rural fables, how our national turmoil created ‘Brexlit’

28th

6:00a	theguardianbook	This Is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill review – pitch perfect response to #MeToo
6:30a	theguardianbook	Ultrarunning, prison, surviving Aids ... the best tales of endurance
8:00a	theguardianbook	Devils and debauchery: why we love to be scared by folk horror
8:00a	theguardianbook	Who Am I, Again? by Lenny Henry review – a cry of existential angst
9:00a	theguardianbook	‘Our pet goat exploded’: my cramped, surprising childhood in a Chinese takeaway
12:31p	theguardianbook	Poem of the week: Hanging out with musicians … by Tom Sastry
2:15p	theguardianbook	'It's an escape': the Americans who want to live like Jane Austen
3:00p	theguardianbook	Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?

29th

6:00a	theguardianbook	One language dies every two weeks. How can poetry help? – books podcast
6:00a	theguardianbook	Cambridge Analytica: Mindf*ck by Christopher Wylie; Targeted by Brittany Kaiser – reviews
7:00a	theguardianbook	Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley review – an atmospheric tale
10:10a	theguardianbook	Is this inclusive? Why only 4% of children's book heroes are BAME – video
12:00p	theguardianbook	How much did The Golden Notebook lift from Doris Lessing’s life?
5:00p	theguardianbook	My early diaries filled me with so much shame I burned them. I’m publishing the rest \| Helen Garner

30th

7:30a	theguardianbook	Island Stories by David Reynolds review – how British history is shaping Brexit
9:00a	theguardianbook	Find Me by André Aciman review – an intriguing sequel to Call Me by Your Name
9:00a	theguardianbook	Chastity belts, torture tools and ... a bit of skin? Three authors on their spooky inspirations
10:00a	theguardianbook	Deeplight by Frances Hardinge review – a rich and strange island adventure
12:00p	theguardianbook	Top 10 books about graveyards
2:55p	theguardianbook	'Sinister yet pathetic': how the UK was primed for nuclear war

31st

7:30a	theguardianbook	Novel Houses by Christina Hardyment review – famous fictional dwellings
9:00a	theguardianbook	Pravda Ha Ha by Rory MacLean review – true travels to the end of Europe
10:00a	theguardianbook	The Dressing-Up Box and Other Stories by David Constantine – review
12:11p	theguardianbook	'I was so scared I took it back to the library': the books that scare horror authors
2:08p	theguardianbook	George RR Martin promises to not write spinoff until Game of Thrones book is finished
3:01p	theguardianbook	Konnie Huq and 90 MPs call for end to 'reading tax' in UK

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