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American Dirt author Jeanine Cummins: ‘I didn’t need to justify my right to write that book’

Five years after being vilified for exploiting the migrant experience in her bestseller, the author reveals how the backlash inspired her latest novel

The Guardian - UK

Never Flinch book review: Stephen King tries plotting and comes out plodding

Stephen King doesn’t do plotting. “Plot is,” he decreed in his memoir On Writing, “the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.” Instead, he likes to drop his characters into a situation, start writing and see where things go. If he gets stuck, he follows the advice of…

Evening Standard

Signing event to be held for acclaimed witch trial book

A chance to meet the women who have been campaigning for justice for Scotland’s “witches” is on offer this coming weekend

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Queen icon Freddie Mercury had a secret daughter, according to a new biography

Book claims Freddie Mercury had a close relationship with his secret "daughter" until his death in 1991

Louder

“Thought He Was Gay”: Freddie Mercury’s ‘Secret Child’ Speaks Out 30 Years After His Passing

"No one could have faked all this."

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Challenge use of ‘nefarious’ news sources, says environmentalist

Mike Berners-Lee tells Hay festival audience to make spread of political deceit more socially embarrassing

The Guardian - UK

Memory, movement, and marginality: Memoir of a tribal modernist

For a life that could possibly be best described as eventful, a slim memoir can often run out of breath in reliving its sweep. This sense of life outpacing memory isn't surprising for the Oxford-educated tribal leader from the Chotanagpur plateau in Jharkhand (then in undivided Bihar), who went on…

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Jennifer Dulos dreamed of the perfect life – and then everything fell apart: A new look into her life before she vanished

When Jennifer Dulos vanished on May 24, 2019, in the middle of a contentious custody battle, the story focused on her estranged husband Fotis Dulos and his socialite girlfriend Michelle Troconis. Journalist Rich Cohen tells Andrea Cavallier that his new book Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story delves…

The Independent UK

Freddie Mercury had secret child, new biography claims

Late rock star apparently gave his daughter 17 volumes of detailed personal journals

The Independent UK

Freddie Mercury 'had secret daughter from illicit affair', extraordinary new biography claims

The Queen frontman’s secret love child speaks out 48 years after her birth: 'He adored me and was devoted’

Evening Standard

Freddie Mercury had secret daughter, new biography claims

According to Love, Freddie, Queen frontman had close relationship with child conceived accidentally in 1976

The Guardian - UK

John Fletcher obituary

Other lives: Literary scholar and academic who had a long friendship and correspondence with the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett

The Guardian - UK

‘My legal work sows the seeds of my stories’: International Booker prize winner Banu Mushtaq

The author and activist, who was subject to a fatwa in 2000, has won the prestigious prize for translated fiction with her translator Deepa Bhasthi for her collection of short stories about the lives of Muslim women. They explain why Heart Lamp’s themes ‘are universal’

The Guardian - UK

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A girl with super strength; anarchic doughnuts on a mission to rule the world; boys in the Blitz; an Igbo YA fantasy and more

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Supreme Court ruling on sex 'misinterpreted', says former judge Lady Hale

THE Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of a woman has “been misinterpreted”, Lady Hale has said.

The Guardian - UK

Andrew Hunter Murray: ‘Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I find more jokes’

The author and podcaster on taking inspiration from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, welling up to Charles Dickens, and the enduring appeal of Jane Austen

The Guardian - AU

Michelle de Kretser wins Stella prize for book that ‘expands our notions of what a novel can be’

The two-time Miles Franklin winner adds the $60,000 prize for women and nonbinary writers to her accolades, for a novel that troubles the line between fiction and memoir

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Novel formula for interrupted tale claims Stella Prize

A novel exploring the "messiness of life found in the gap between theory and practice" has won the Stella Prize for one of Australia's most celebrated writers.

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The Guardian - UK

The Boys by Leo Robson review – a likeable debut with aimless charm

The critic turned author’s witty, eccentric novel follows a Londoner reading Susan Sontag and looking for love

The Texas Tribune

$8.5 billion school funding package passes Texas Senate

The legislation includes new pots of money for teacher raises and other school costs like insurance and transportation. It now heads to the House, where leaders say it will pass.

WhatToWatch

Black Dagger Brotherhood: release date, trailer, cast and everything we know about the Passionflix series

Black Dagger Brotherhood follows the events of J.R. Ward's bestselling vampire series. Here's everything we know about the Passionflix series.

The Guardian - UK

Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says

Speaking at book festival in east Sussex, former supreme court president says reaction to judgment ‘very binary’

The Independent UK

Bill Gates shares summer reading list for 2025 featuring Bono, Trevor Noah and more

The billionaire and philanthropist has revealed a list of books that inspired his recent memoir

International Business Times

Nicaraguan 'Dictatorship' Is Doomed, Says Exiled Author

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's "dictatorship" is doomed, exiled novelist Sergio Ramirez has told AFP, predicting the population will eventually rebel against the elderly ex-guerrilla.

The Independent UK

A wave of new owners brings fresh energy to independent bookselling

Amber Salazar is the kind of idealist you just knew would end up running a store like Banned Wagon Books

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