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<p>Bestselling author of ‘Why Women Grow’ returns with a story about searching for meaning and a sense of self within sound</p>

Extract

How motherhood changes the way women listen

In her third book, bestselling author Alice Vincent tries to reconnect with lost parts of herself through sound. In this chapter, she speaks with Mercury Prize-nominated musician Bat for Lashes about why becoming a mother alters how – and what – we hear

<p>The matriarch herself: Tina Knowles </p>

The Reading List

Tina Knowles’ memoir isn’t filled with Beyoncé gossip – to its credit

<p>The Great Business Generator: Over the last 100 years, F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece has spawned adaptations, commercial ventures, and spin-offs</p>

The Reading List

Great Gatsby escape rooms? 100 years on, we’ve lost the book’s meaning

<p>The Big Three: Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference in 1945</p>

Tim Bouverie recalls The Big Three’s fall-out with wit and sensitivity

<p>Highlights for April include books on ‘Doctor Who’, vanishing nature and the authentic self</p>

Books of the Month

What to read in April, from a candid Doctor Who biography to five-star fiction

<p>Not one to suffer fools gladly, Gore Vidal gained a reputation as a silver-tongued writer and pundit who had wit in spades</p>

The Reading List

The sad decline of Gore Vidal, acerbic writer and fearsome feuder

<p>Brothers in arms: At the heart of the Beatles was the fraught friendship between Paul McCartney and John Lennon</p>

Interview

Ian Leslie on John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s ‘erotic’ bromance

<p>Man about town: As editor of New York’s most influential magazines, Graydon Carter was someone to know</p>

The Reading List

Vanity Fair’s lavish era is enough to make journalists today depressed

<p>Home sweet home: fiction authors recently have found inspiration in the hellscape of London’s rental crisis</p>

The Reading List

This book brings the grim horrors of London’s rental market to life

<p>The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust says it is to ‘decolonise its museum collections’ to tackle the claim that the playwright’s ‘legacy promotes white supremacy’</p>

McCrum on Books

Decolonising Shakespeare makes no sense for this simple reason

<p>Protesters gather in Harlem, New York, to protest the death of George Floyd</p>

McCrum on Books

Can this book really teach people how not to be racist?

<p>Torrey Peters wants to write trans stories for the rest of her career</p>

Interview

Author Torrey Peters on why she won’t stop writing trans stories

Reviews

<p>‘Source Code’ is the first of a memoir trilogy, looking back on Bill Gates’s early years in Seattle to the 1975 foundation of Microsoft</p>

Amid cyborg tech tycoons, Bill Gates’s memoir offers a more human view

<p>Readers’ history: Orlando Reade’s new book explores the response to ‘Paradise Lost’ over the centuries </p>

The book unearthing the subversive history of Paradise Lost

<p>Compelling: Dalrymple highlights India’s ‘often forgotten position’ as a motor of global trade in ancient and early medieval times </p>

The history book that will transform your view of early civilisation

<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

Lists

<p>Must-reads: the books you can’t miss in 2025 </p>

The books to read in 2025, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Adam Kay

<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

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