Books
From rowdy forest animals to wig-loving goths: These are the best children’s books of 2025
From rowdy forest animals to wig-loving goths: These are the best children’s books of 2025
Here is our pick of 2025’s books for kids, by age group. Your Christmas list sorted
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt author Michael Rosen: ‘Life is harder for kids now than it was in 1989’
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt author Michael Rosen: ‘Life is harder for kids now than it was in 1989’
Top 5 books featuring animals, chosen by author and illustrator Andrea Cáceres
Top 5 books featuring animals, chosen by author and illustrator Andrea Cáceres
Top Stories
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt creators reunite to tell new, exclusive Christmas tale for Big Issue
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt creators reunite to tell new, exclusive Christmas tale for Big Issue
Nymph by Stephanie LaCava review – hollowing out the espionage genre
Nymph by Stephanie LaCava review – hollowing out the espionage genre
Reviews
Nymph by Stephanie LaCava review – hollowing out the espionage genre
Nymph by Stephanie LaCava review – hollowing out the espionage genre
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn review – a portrait of women on the outskirts
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn review – a portrait of women on the outskirts
The Tower by Thea Lenarduzzi review – a strange, engrossing literary hall of mirrors
The Tower by Thea Lenarduzzi review – a strange, engrossing literary hall of mirrors
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani review – diaspora, flight and exile
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani review – diaspora, flight and exile
Top 5 books
Top 5 books featuring animals, chosen by author and illustrator Andrea Cáceres
Top 5 books featuring animals, chosen by author and illustrator Andrea Cáceres
Top 5 Books for under-13s, chosen by children’s author Sophie Kirtley
Top 5 Books for under-13s, chosen by children’s author Sophie Kirtley
Top 5 queer love stories, chosen by poet, playwright and novelist Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Top 5 queer love stories, chosen by poet, playwright and novelist Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Top 5 Balkan books, chosen by Slovenian author and journalist Ana Schnabl
Top 5 Balkan books, chosen by Slovenian author and journalist Ana Schnabl
Author essays
We humans love to anthropomorphise our stuff. There’s a good reason for that
We humans love to anthropomorphise our stuff. There’s a good reason for that
Once you give a name to an object it’s much easier to imagine or pretend that the object has cognitive capacities similar to our own
Science writer Alex Riley: ‘Even if humans cause mass extinction, life will still endure’
