Five Books features in-depth author interviews recommending five books on a theme. You can read more interviews on the site, or sign up for the newsletter. From the terrorists who came up with the idea of hijacking planes to get attention to a biography of the Scottish novelist Muriel Spark, the books in the running for this year's Baillie Gifford Prize, as always, display a wonderful breadth. Robbie Millen, literary editor of the Times and chair of the 2025 judging panel, talks us through the shortlist of the UK's most prestigious nonfiction book prize. Read more In the past five years, over 30 books have been published on black holes for a popular audience—testimony to our enduring fascination with these areas of spacetime from which nothing, not even light, can escape. Lynn Gamwell, author of Conjuring the Void—a beautiful book that looks at both scientific and artistic images of black holes—talks us through five of her favourites, including a PhD thesis that has not yet been published as a book. Read more Want more to read? The full Browser sends five outstanding articles, a video and a podcast daily, to keep you fascinated for longer. Caroline Crampton, Editor-In-Chief; Robert Cottrell, Founding Editor; Sylvia Bishop, Assistant Publisher; Jodi Ettenberg, Associate Editor; Uri Bram, CEO & Publisher; Al Breach, Founding Director Editorial comments and letters to the editor: editor@thebrowser.com | Technical issues and support requests: support@thebrowser.com | Or write at any time to the publisher: uri@thebrowser.com Proudly published with Ghost, the fiercely independent website and newsletter platform
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