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<p>The admission of ‘goofs’ is about as near as Johnson gets to self-discovery </p>

Boris Johnson’s memoir Unleashed is twisted, sour and full of lies

In his shameless and predictable 772-page account of events, the former PM forgoes the truth to paint a preposterous picture of himself as a man of destiny, too good for his own good

<p>Irvine Welsh: ‘Things will continue to decline under Kamala Harris, but Trump could actually be the end of democracy in America’ </p>

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Irvine Welsh: ‘I dislike both US presidential candidates intensely’

<p>‘It sounds haughty, but actually, I make art, so I am an artist’: Joe Lycett on his famous pranks and going viral with his artwork of celebrities </p>

Interview

Joe Lycett: ‘I don’t think Labour politicians will like being mocked’

<p>Robert Harris is the classy English novelist who, in both quality and quantity, reaches the parts most others cannot reach</p>

Interview

Robert Harris on British political history’s scandalous secret affair

<p>Jacqueline Wilson on swearing and sex scenes in her adult novel: ‘I wanted to show: no, it’s not suitable for children’</p>

Interview

Jacqueline Wilson: ‘Do I worry about becoming irrelevant? Yes!’

<p>Another comedian writing a children’s book? Alexander Armstrong insists that comedians are already writers </p>

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Alexander Armstrong: ‘I laughed at cruel moments in Roald Dahl books’

writers on reading

William Boyd on the books that matter to him

<p>For the first time Wendy Cope’s poetry is being published in a collected edition</p>

Writers on reading

Poet Wendy Cope on the books that matter to her

<p>‘My twenties were just overwhelmed by worry and uncertainty’ </p>

Interview

David Nicholls: ‘It struck me there’s no male word for broodiness’

<p>Fanfare: a new Rooney novel is now a major literary event </p>

In focus

Sally Rooney is her own harshest critic – that could be a good thing

<p>Craig Brown shines new light on that most documented of public figures, Queen Elizabeth II </p>

Dream diaries and corgi family trees: a fun, quirky look at the Queen

<p>The Iranian embassy siege has become part of our national myth</p>

MCCRUM ON BOOKS

The Siege is a thrilling tale of an SAS assault over in minutes

Reviews

<p>Soulful: the new novel from Rooney deals with grief and age-gap relationships </p>

Sally Rooney ditches style that made her ‘voice of a generation’

<p>Tom Bower’s new book fails to shed much new light on the power couple </p>

Tom Bower’s Posh and Becks exposé won’t spice up your life

<p>Alba Arikha’s 2017 memoir, ‘Major/Minor’, was widely acclaimed</p>

Two Hours by Alba Arikha is a lesson in forging a life without regret

<p>Salman Rushdie pictured in 2023</p>

Salman Rushdie’s Knife is moving, sardonic and not for the squeamish

Lists

<p>Thriller: Meghann Fahy is part of ‘The Perfect Couple’s starry cast </p>

Love The Perfect Couple? These are the books and TV shows to try next

<p>With the rise of Instagram and BookTok, the importance of aesthetics in literature is on the rise </p>

Don’t judge a book by its cover: 15 of the most iconic book covers

<p>Fiction highlights for the year ahead including Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s ‘lost’ novel and new titles from Stephen King and Emily Henry </p>

The best fiction to read in 2024

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