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August 2026

  • Acclaimed English philosopher Sir Anthony Kenny, pictured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where he talked about his new work entitled 'A New History of Western Philosopher'. The three-week event is the world's biggest literary festival and is held during the annual Edinburgh Festival. The 2011 event featured talks and presentations by more than 500 authors from around the world.3A09NHC Acclaimed English philosopher Sir Anthony Kenny, pictured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where he talked about his new work entitled 'A New History of Western Philosopher'. The three-week event is the world's biggest literary festival and is held during the annual Edinburgh Festival. The 2011 event featured talks and presentations by more than 500 authors from around the world.

    Sir Anthony Kenny obituary

  • guardian summer books cover final

    From Booker-listed Marlon James to a memoir by Michael Douglas – the biggest books this autumn

  • Alice Roberts ©Dave Stevens

    The books of my life
    Alice Roberts: ‘By the time I’d finished Richard Dawkins I’d left faith behind’

  • Lauro Martines gestures while speaking, wearing a green turtleneck jumper and black blazer

    Other lives
    Lauro Martines obituary

  • Book of the day
    A History of the Novel in Britain by Philip Hensher review – a masterpiece of criticism

  • Sir Christopher Ondaatje obituary

  • ‘Like if John Sayles directed Forrest Gump’: the incredible life of historian Howard Zinn

  • Bookmark this
    Best Australian books out in August: new Meg Mason, musicians tell all and a time-travel tale by ‘a master storyteller’

  • Book of the day
    The August Coup by Robert Service review – the drink-soaked collapse of the Soviet Union

July 2026

  • Don Macraild, a bearded man wearing glasses, looks directly at the camera with bookshelves behind him

    Other lives
    Don MacRaild obituary

  • The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, Cheltenham, Britain - 13 Oct 2010Mandatory Credit: Photo by Richard Gardner/REX/Shutterstock (1232497c) Juliet Gardiner The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, Cheltenham, Britain - 13 Oct 2010

    Letter: Juliet Gardiner obituary

  • Ben Nevis in the Scottish Highlands.

    Book of the day
    Upland by Ed Douglas review – a glorious survey of Britain’s high places

  • Illustration showing a witch with a broomstick, black cat and bats flying

    What makes a woman a witch? Financial independence

  • ‘Everywhere there were pitifully injured people’: how a newly unearthed memoir captures the devastation of Hiroshima

  • Social Darwinists to tech bros: tracing the long fight against equality in US

  • Book of the day
    Up All Night by Imogen Willetts review – a seductive history of going out

  • ‘People are picking the dumbest fights’: the tortured history of America’s culture wars

  • Juliet Gardiner obituary

  • The Brexit Effect, 2016-2026 edited by Anthony Seldon review – life without EU

  • Other lives
    Adrian Hoare obituary

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