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• Our favourite celebrities and authors pick their favourite books of 2025

  09-01-2026 12:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  2025 was a bumper year for fiction and non fiction. From the book that toppled a prince to top tier thrillers, our favourite authors pick their best books of 2025.
  
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• Would you want to know your death day? The best Psychological Thrillers out now - My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney, The Opposite of Murder by Sophie Hannah, Troublemaker by Lesley Kara

  09-01-2026 11:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stephanie Cross reviews the best Psychological Thrillers out now.
  
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• The best Literary Fiction of the week: A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar, One Sun Only by Camille Bordas, Wreck by Catherine Newman

  09-01-2026 11:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Claire Allfree reviews the best Literary Fiction out now.
  
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• Authoritative and finely judged: The best Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels out now - The Poet Empress by Shen Tao, We Call Them Witches by India Rose-Bower, The Salt Bind by Rebecca Ferrier

  09-01-2026 11:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jamie Buxton reviews the best Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels out now.
  
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• A spy thriller, a sci-fi novel and an obsessive infatuation feature in the best Retros out now: The Untouchable by John Banville, The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury and Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

  09-01-2026 11:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sally Morris reviews the best Retros out now.
  
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• Discover what really turns off bestseller Laura Dave when she gets into a new book

  09-01-2026 10:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Laura Dave answers our burning questions, what is she reading, what book would she take to a desert island, what gave her the reading bug, and what left her cold?
  
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• She was the aristocrat who left her family, fought in the Spanish Civil War and was a through and through communist - the most maverick Mitford of all!

  09-01-2026 10:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new biography of Jessica Mitford portrays an upper class communist who fought for the poor - but travelled with 13 suitcases and didn't realise you paid for electricity.
  
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• Neuroscientist says that we all NEED friends - our lives depend on them

  09-01-2026 10:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Ben Rein proves that the brain is the only organ that gets lonely and goes on to show that we need friends to not only be happy but also stay alive.
  
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• How you can become a mind reader: OZ PEARLMAN astounds audiences with his telepathic abilities. Here, he reveals the secret to his powers... and how you can channel them too

  02-01-2026 13:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While appearing on US breakfast TV show Today in 2016, the mentalist Oz Pearlman asked weather presenter Al Roker to name a celebrity who might run for president.
  
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• JoJo Moyes: I was about to quit - then wrote a novel that's sold 14million copies and inspired a film starring Emilia Clarke

  27-12-2025 23:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In an interview with Sunday's Desert Island Discs, the author said: 'I was broke at the time and I was feeling quite depressed because I thought my writing career was coming to an end.'
  
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• Rock around the Christmas tree with the best music books of 2025

  19-12-2025 15:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From John Lennon to John Williams these are the years best books and biographies on music
  
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• The 9 best health books of 2025 to help you feel your best self in the new year

  19-12-2025 12:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  If you want to go into 2026 with health and energy then look no further than these books written to keep the doctor at bay
  
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• Glitz, glamour gorgeous paintings: Find the perfect present with the best picture books of 2025

  18-12-2025 18:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lose yourself in the fabulous photographs in these picture perfect books
  
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• Your survival guide to the Christmas chaos: the best books to feed your mind, body and spirit

  18-12-2025 17:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  If the festive season is driving you mad, why not recentre using the tools in these mind-altering and life affirming books
  
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• It's a been a bumper year for biographies and memoirs: here Ysenda Maxtone Graham has picked out the best ones of 2025

  18-12-2025 17:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dive into the lives and loves of some of the world's most eminent people through the best memoirs and biographies of the year
  
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• Our picks for the best children's books to give this Christmas

  08-12-2025 16:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Our expert children's books reviewer has selected the books your children will fall in love with this Christmas.
  
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• The 23 most mouthwatering cookbooks to tickle the tastebuds of your foodie friends and family

  01-12-2025 13:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From Dame Mary to Jamie Oliver, Thomasina Miers to Diana Henry, Constance Craig Smith provides a list of the BEST cookery books to give this year.
  
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• So which of these jingle your bells? Our reviewers pick the best fiction books of 2025

  28-11-2025 18:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Want to find the perfect present for the book lover in your life? Our expert reviewers have done the work so you don't have to and picked out the best novels for readers of all tastes.
  
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• The spy who brought sex to the English stage

  28-11-2025 16:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Christopher Marlowe may be remembered as one of history's greatest playwrights, but it turns out his life held far more fatal twists and scandals than the most dramatic of his plays.
  
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• Bringing the joy back into wine... one glass at a time

  28-11-2025 16:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The internet's favourite wine expert takes us through the ups and downs of a rich and full bodied career.
  
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• The story of how society turned its back on Oscar Wilde from his only living grandson

  28-11-2025 14:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In his new book Merlin Holland, the only surviving grandson of Oscar Wilde, confronts the life and legacy of his extraordinary grandfather
  
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• The best literary fiction out now: The Silver Book by Olivia Laing, One Aladdin, Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson, Archipelago of the Sun by Yoko Tawada

  28-11-2025 12:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Claire Allfree reviews the best literary fiction out now
  
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• The best children's fiction out now: PORRIDGE PLEASE! by Laura Mucha Illustrated by Marc Boutavant, ROBIN by Sarah Ann Juckes, WE FELL APART by E. Lockhart

  28-11-2025 12:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sally Morris reviews the best children's fiction
  
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• This poisonous tale is a deadly festive treat: Death in Ambush by Susan Gilruth, Murder on the Great Northern Railway by Edward Marston, Maigret's Holiday by Georges Simenon

  21-11-2025 17:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Barry Turner reviews the best Classic Crime
  
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• Embrace the cold with Val McDermid

  21-11-2025 17:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Get Christmassy with the Queen of crime
  
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• Why nuclear war is closer than ever: That's the chilling verdict of historian SERHII PLOKHY who reveals the FORTY countries which could blow the world apart... and the timebomb that could trigger ash-flecked annihilation

  21-11-2025 01:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  I was born and have lived my entire life under the threat of universal extermination that followed that summer's day in 1945 when, in the New ­Mexico desert, the first nuclear bomb was exploded.
  
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• They're masters of the dark political arts, they know the peccadilloes of every MP, but how do the Whips get their way in Westminster? Secrets, lies and a taste for torture...

  17-11-2025 15:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New book by Sebastian Whale reveals exactly what goes on behind the closed doors of parliament and what it is that keeps our government going.
  
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• Secrets, lies and a taste for torture...How Whips work in the Westminster shadows

  14-11-2025 15:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  They're masters of the dark political arts
  who know the peccadilloes of every MP.
  Now, a new book reveals how the Whips
  of Westminster get what they want...
  
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• The truth about Joan of Arc's heavenly visions

  14-11-2025 15:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Historical female figures have been made into icons and legends in every culture across the world. But what are their real stories, behind the legend.
  
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• Dazzling good literary fiction out this week: ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME III by Solvej Ball, LIGHTBREAKERS by Aja Gabel, THE MATCHBOX GIRL by Alice Jolly

  14-11-2025 13:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stephanie Cross reviews the best literary fiction out now
  
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• Historical novels that will knock your socks off: Small Acts of Resistance by Anita Frank, Introducing Mrs Collins by Rachel Parris, The Good Nazi by Samir Machado De Machado

  14-11-2025 13:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Eithne Farry reviews the best historical fiction out this month
  
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• Inspector gadget Q has a licence to thrill: Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan, The Burning Grounds by Abir Mukherjee, The House on Buzzards Bay by Dwyer Murphy

  14-11-2025 13:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Geoffrey Wansell reviews the best crime fiction
  
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• Popular fiction that packs a bunch: ALL GOD'S CREATURES by Anthony Gardner, THE WOMAN FROM BOOK CLUB by Carrie Hughes, BLUFF by Francine Toon

  14-11-2025 12:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wendy Holden reviews the best popular fiction
  
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• The Wicker Man ruined my family

  13-11-2025 13:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The wicker man shocked the world when it came out, but is the story behind the making of the cult classic more horrifying than the film?
  
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• My horse told me it wanted to die... here's how to listen to your pets

  13-11-2025 13:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Time to decode the meaning behind the subtle signals your pets might give
  
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• Has Vermeer's girl with the pearl earring finally been unmasked?

  13-11-2025 13:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In this fascinating study of the Dutch master, a renowned art historian reveals the secret identity of the enigmatic woman
  
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• Picture This: A catwalk through every Jean Paul Gaultier collection

  10-11-2025 16:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Megan Conlon reviews this beautifully illustrated new book which traces the radical history and industry defining designs of Jean Paul Gautier.
  
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• Knaussgaard is back in this week's literary fiction: THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT by Karl Ove Knausgaard, THE MERGE by Grace Walker, QUEEN ESTHER by John Irving

  07-11-2025 15:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Anthony Cummins reviews the best literary fiction out now
  
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• A desperate hunt for his daughter's mum in this weeks retros: THE RIDERS by Tim Winton, THE GREEN YEARS by A. J. Cronin, FREEZING POINT by Anders Bodelsen

  07-11-2025 14:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sally Morris reviews the best retro reads
  
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• Who can trust who in this month's best psychological thrillers: Watch Your Back by Emma Christie, The Token by Sharon Bolton, The After Party by Ruth Kelly

  07-11-2025 14:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Christena Appleyard reviews this month's best psychological thrillers
  
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• Seriously good sci-fi: Empire of the Dawn by Jay Kristoff, Ice by Jacek Dukaj, Slow Gods by Claire North

  07-11-2025 14:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jamie Buxton reviews the best science fiction out this month
  
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• How James Corden's thirst for fame 'separated' him and Ruth Jones: Candid emails reveal how Gavin and Stacey creators 'broke-up' after he went to LA to pursue celebrity life

  07-11-2025 12:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Candid conversations revealed in a new book show James Corden's decisionto capitalise on his celebrity almost ruined his relationship with Gavin And Stacey co-creator Ruth Jones
  
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• Proof that the less you know the smarter you are

  07-11-2025 11:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  No one likes a know it all, and now we know why we find them quite so annoying
  
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• After the success of Gavin and Stacey rocketed creators James Corden and Ruth Jones to fame, we FINALLY know what broke up the real Smithy and Nessa

  07-11-2025 11:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Candid conversations revealed in a new book show James Corden's decisionto capitalise on his celebrity almost ruined his relationship with Gavin And Stacey co-creator Ruth Jones
  
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• Young Once: A Life Less Heavy Nigel Planer: The real life of Neil the hippy

  02-11-2025 11:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The comedian's fabulous memoir reveals the life behind the lanky hair
  
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• The Years Of The Wizard Rachel Morris: The golden age of the great British
magician

  02-11-2025 11:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Explore the time when magic was seen as science, by some of the most intelligent people of the day.
  
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• The Book Of Memory by Mark Rowlands: Want to live forever? This is the only way to be immortal

  02-11-2025 11:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In this powerful explorationof memory, philosopher Mark Rowlands reveals that the key to eternal life is to live on in the minds of those you leave behind
  
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• Laugh out loud literary fiction: Service by John Tottenham, Borderline Fiction by Derek Owusu, The Wax Child by Olga Ravn

  31-10-2025 17:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Claire Allfree reviews this week's best literary fiction
  
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• Contemporary novels to cosy up with: Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Sutanto, Other People's Fun by Harriet Lane,The Ferryman and his Wife by Frode Grytten

  31-10-2025 16:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sara Lawrence reviews the best contemporary fiction out now
  
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• Hello to new star duo's knife-edge mystery: Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben, Revenge of Odessa by Frederick Forsyth with Tony Kent, Dying Days by Les Hinton

  31-10-2025 16:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Geoffrey Wansell reviews the best thrillers
  
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