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The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones – review

BookTrain125: 'give this book a chance before putting it down because afterwards it is spellbinding!'

Rainbow Beauty, Blueberry Wishes by Kelly Mckain – review

googleyeyes: 'Wow. I mean, WOW!'

Reader reviews roundup

We're heading out of this world in our roundup of your reviews this week...

Flour Babies by Anne Fine – review

googleyeyes: 'I didn't find any of the characters easy to connect with and I thought the book was unique. But not the good sort of unique.'

My Friend The Enemy by Dan Smith – review

Cleopatra 'I enjoyed this book, it shows how people can be friends, despite on the surface, being enemies'

Discover The Savage World by Miles Kelly – review

Velociraptor I especially like the section on nature, because I like to imagine creatures battling each other!'

Holes by Louis Sachar – review

Felixreads: 'I like this book because it is full of adventure (and lizards!)'

Picture Me Gone by Meg Rosoff – review

OrliTheBookworm: 'it's a little bit like a little white daisy in a field of others, but with the slightest crease in one of its delicate petals'

The Adventures of Shola by Bernardo Atxaga – review

YOLO: 'Shola thinks of the world as her playground and plays when she likes, walks when she likes and eats when she likes'

Warrior Cats: Forest of Secrets by Erin Hunter – review

YOLO: 'I found this book so descriptive, it was fantabulous!'

The Last Wild by Piers Torday – review

hotcocoa: 'The ending of this book doesn't seem very complete to me, but it is still a very good book'

Attack of the Cupids by John Dickinson – review

Japanmomiji: 'I found this book quite confusing'

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgern – review

Lady Abigail: 'I like the characters because some are quite odd and have horses and monkeys for pets'

Four Children and It by Jacqueline Wilson – review

AgentRedfort: 'A brilliant book, it must be read by Jacqueline Wilson fans'

Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell – review

AgentRedfort: 'the writing side is absolutely fantastical'

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  • The Fall of the West by Owen Jones review – a bracing history of the changing world order
  • I Can’t Tell You But I Will by Magda Szubanski review – an insightful, elegant, anti-celebrity memoir
  • Gen Z has very strong opinions about age-gap relationships – and it could be right
  • Penny Vine obituary
  • Range by Dorthe Nors review – an astrophysicist at odds with reality
  • Deep into the Sixties: Britain 1965-66 by David Kynaston review – a tour de force of popular history
  • Tomi Adeyemi on the film of her hit novel Children of Blood and Bone: ‘I don’t plan to watch it’
  • ‘I’d like to explain why I was such a monster back then’: six writers on the apologies they wish they’d made
  • ‘We left Ireland because there wasn’t work – and we wanted to get the hell away’: Trespasses author Louise Kennedy
  • The Guardian view on the 2026 Booker shortlist: what it takes to be a man
  • Novelist accused of using AI to write book removed from French prize list
  • ‘Birdwatching is close to rapture’: Margaret Atwood on why she has given C$1m to avian research
  • Meryl Streep’s casting as Aslan has angered the Christian right. Don’t they have more pressing issues?
  • The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
  • Big Little Truths by Liane Moriarty review – Big Little Lies sequel shoots for high drama but fails to deliver
  • Three Men in a Boat review – quirky novella makes for perky, fun-forward theatre
  • Yellow Dog by Martin Amis review – Bill Nighy has a ball
  • Injunction blocking publication of ex-SAS soldier’s book on counter-terror op extended
  • Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel review – alternate visions of post-crisis America
  • Andy Griffiths on Terry Denton’s genius: ‘He was a true clown. He could make something funny out of nothing’
  • ‘And you will be the People’s Earl’ – Charles Spencer’s Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, digested by John Crace
  • ‘Why no female lead characters this year?’: The Guardian’s book team answered your questions
  • John Green got an astronomical following from his books. What came next? ‘I’m still competing for clicks’
  • Manhunter review – Michael Mann serves up a bold and queasy starter to the serial killer spectacle
  • The Complex by Karan Mahajan review – a superb family saga set in Delhi
  • Tell us: what have you been reading this month?
  • I read 163 novels and these are the six best: Mary Beard on judging the Booker prize
  • Previous winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart shortlisted for Booker prize
  • Patricia Easterling obituary
  • June Wyndham Davies obituary

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