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Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn

Everett’s novel, James, which focuses on Twain's enslaved character Jim, won the $10,000 prize

The Guardian - AU

That Time Solicitor General Fried Redacted The Word "Plenary" From a Printed SCOTUS Reply Brief With A Marker

A fascinating tidbit from the excellent new book, "The Meese Revolution"

Reason

A new stage adaptation of Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs is a delightful homage to theatrical storytelling

Jack Maggs is a delight and a homage to theatrical storytelling in Australia.

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Percival Everett and Jason De León win National Book Awards

Percival Everett’s “James” has won the National Book Award for fiction

The Independent UK

Captain Tom’s family personally benefited from charity they founded, report finds

Watchdog’s highly critical inquiry finds Hannah and Colin Ingram-Moore culpable of ‘serious and repeated’ misconduct

The Guardian - UK

Captain Tom Foundation inquiry: three key failings

A book deal, personal appearance and plans for a swimming pool were all criticised by the Charity Commission

The Guardian - UK

What are the findings of the report into the Captain Tom Foundation?

The 30-page document acknowledges that the foundation was created during the Covid-19 pandemic, ‘a period of global turmoil’.

The Independent UK

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Ingram-Moores ‘made more than £1m from family link to Captain Tom Foundation’

The Charity Commission began looking into the Captain Tom Foundation in March 2021.

The Independent UK

Cormac McCarthy’s secret ‘muse’ — who was 16 while he was in his 40s — reveals herself for the first time

Augusta Britt, who says she met the then-married author at a motel pool, is believed to have inspired several novels

The Independent UK

Famous Author Accused of Using Psychiatrist Wife's Confidential Patient Files as Basis for Award-Winning Novel

An author has been accused of using the confidential files of his psychiatrist wife's patient for his novel that won him the highest literacy award in France.

Latin Times

The right book can inspire the young readers in your life, from picture books to YA novels

It’s holiday season, but that doesn’t have to mean waiting in long lines for big sales to buy the hottest toy or newest game system for the kids in your life

The Independent UK

From fashion to sports, coffee table books are great holiday options

Hollywood to fashion, dogs to sports

The Independent UK

Cormac McCarthy had 16-year-old ‘muse’ when he was 42, Vanity Fair reports

Augusta Britt says relationship with then-married author, who died in 2023, began after they met at motel pool

The Guardian - UK

Riley Keough Opens Up About the Presley Family Curse as the Sole Heir of Graceland

"I think the word 'curse' is used because my family are looked at as this 'not real' mythology."

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The Guardian - UK

Author Kamel Daoud sued over claim he used life of wife’s patient in novel

Woman says French-Algerian writer’s prize-winning Houris uses her story as she told it to therapist Aicha Dehdouh

The Guardian - UK

‘I fly, I drive. We’re all complicit’: Richard Flanagan on vanishing species and refusing the Baillie Gifford prize money

The Australian’s book about his parents’ love and his father’s horrific experience of Burma’s Death Railway won the illustrious nonfiction award. Here he talks about finding beauty and hope in the age of extinction and despair

Marie Claire

Prince Harry has 'moved on' from royal rift, expert claims

Things are looking up

The Guardian - UK

Samantha Harvey’s Booker-winning Orbital tops UK bestseller list

The short novel narrating a day in the life of six astronauts on the International Space Station becomes the first book to top the charts in the week of its win

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Evening Standard

Baillie Gifford prize-winner Richard Flanagan delays £50,000 award money over fossil fuel ties

Richard Flanagan became the first person in history to win both the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

The Guardian - UK

Stay With Me by Hanne Ørstavik review – looking for love

The acclaimed Norwegian author explores the impact of childhood trauma in this portrait of a life lived in fear

The Guardian - UK

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller review – light in the darkness

Set during the Big Freeze of 1962-3, this story of two marriages brilliantly evokes the legacy of the second world war

International Business Times

Taliban Govt Clearing 'Un-Islamic' Books From Afghanistan Shelves

Checking imported books, removing texts from libraries and distributing lists of banned titles -- Taliban authorities are working to remove "un-Islamic" and anti-government literature from circulation.

The Independent UK

Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan adds Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize to his trophy shelf

Australian writer Richard Flanagan has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize, a decade after being awarded the Booker Prize for fiction

Evening Standard

Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan makes history securing Baillie Gifford gong

The author secured the non-fiction award for his memoir Question 7.

The Guardian - UK

Richard Flanagan wins Baillie Gifford prize and questions sponsor’s fossil fuel ties

Australian author says he will not accept £50,000 prize money until fund manager reduces its fossil fuel investments

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