Guest Newsletter: Five Books - Women's Prize And World War 2

The Best New Novels: The 2026 Women’s Prize Shortlist

The Women's Prize was set up to highlight the very best of women's writing—whatever their subject matter. We spoke to Salma El-Wardany, one of this year's judges, about the six books that made it onto their fiction shortlist: skillfully told novels that will appeal to a wide audience, from Virginia Evans's heartwarming epistolary novel The Correspondent to Susan Choi's Flashlight, a heavyweight family saga that sweeps through the decades and across oceans. Read more

World War 2 Nonfiction

With hindsight, it seems inevitable that the Allies would eventually defeat the Axis powers in World War II, but at the time it seemed anything but. Tim Bouverie, author of the prize-winning Allies at War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler, talks us through some of the best nonfiction books about the war and the alliances that led to Allied victory. Read more