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Judy Blume’s Superfudge was in our tiny school library, and I wolfed it down at the age of eight. From then, I was side-by-side with all of Judy’s kids, right the way up to 17-year-old Katherine in Fo

David Farrier Nature’s Genius Evolution’s lessons for a changing planet 288pp. Canongate. £20. In David Farrier’s latest book, he warns us that humanity is endangering every facet of life on Earth thr

Blinding: The Left Wing Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu, trans. by ...

Ali Smith Glyph288pp. Hamish Hamilton. £20. The pleasures of Ali Smith’s work stem from its application of an essentially modernist sensibility to up-to-the-minute subject matter, a combination that h

Review of reviews: Books

GH ’s books director, Joanne Finney, shares her pick of this month’s new hardback releases