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- Judith Kerr: ‘I like this generation of teenagers. They seem kind and idealistic’At 95, the author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea still works every day. ‘Stories are a huge comfort,’ she says over lunch at the SavoyJudith Kerr has a theory about life. The first half of it, she suggests, lasts until you are about 18. All the rest counts as the second half. “Children’s years go on so long,” she says, “and pack so very much in.” Kerr’s own fo […]
- The best children’s books of 2018 for all agesFrom celebrity-penned tales to fresh interpretations of the classics, here is our pick of the best for hungry readers from tots to teensChildren’s books have had a record-breaking few years. The sector was worth £381.9m in 2017, according to Nielsen BookScan, and 2018 may well top that. One in every three physical books sold is now a children’s book. Judging […]
- The 20 best food books of 2018From modern Italian to a tour of the Islamic world, easy Ottolenghi to classic Nigella: Observer Food Monthly’s reads of the yearSelected recipes from our best food books1 The Modern Italian CookJoe TrivelliHe is the modest but magical cook who is rightly proud to have spent the past 17 years at the River Cafe under the shadow of Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers. N […]
- Ursula K Le Guin remembered by her son Theo Downes-Le Guin21 October 1929 – 22 January 2018The youngest child of one of America’s most revered science-fiction and fantasy writers on his mother’s lifelong advocacy of freedom – and her towering final speech• Tom Wolfe remembered by Jann Wenner• Read the Observer’s obituaries of 2018 in full hereMy mother has visited me in several dreams since January. In life, she pa […]
- Tom Wolfe remembered by Jann Wenner2 March 1930 – 14 May 2018The Rolling Stone co-founder, whose magazine serialised The Bonfire of the Vanities, remembers an inspirational southern gentleman – and early adopter of calisthenics• Anthony Bourdain remembered by Mark Lanegan• Read the Observer’s obituaries of 2018 in full hereI met Tom Wolfe in the late 1960s, soon after I started Rolling Stone […]
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