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Martha Mills young writers’ prize 2025 opens for entries

This year’s competition for 11- to 14-year-olds, in memory of the budding writer who died aged 13, is on the theme of A New World

The Guardian - UK

From sleeping in doorways to reporting on homelessness: the journalist chronicling an American crisis

Kevin Fagan, who spent decades at the San Francisco Chronicle, argues in a new book that ‘atrociously unforgivable’ US poverty must be addressed

The Guardian - US

Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted by Ben Okri review – a slender fable

The magical healing power of a masked costume ball hangs in the balance in this whimsical tale of transformation

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Universality by Natasha Brown review – clever satire of identity politics

Slyly investigating language and bias in media culture, this follow-up to Assembly confirms Brown as one of the most intelligent voices writing today

The Guardian - UK

Many families may not feel welcome at library storytimes – here’s how to ensure everyone benefits from them

Research shows that children who have books in their home and who talk about stories or learn letters with their families, are more likely to do well at school – not only in literacy but across the board. And these effects are crucial and long-lasting: they can still be seen…

The Conversation

Group is producing documentary on life and death of Detroit urban fiction legend Donald Goines

Who killed Donald Goines

The Independent UK

Anger as TfL drops free book libraries from Tube stations due to 'fire risk'

Book lovers said that TfL had removed ‘the one bit of joy in a commute’

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People Share One Book That Makes Them Judge People Who Have It

People share the books they'd judge you for proudly displaying, and some of them might surprise you The post People Share One Book That Makes Them Judge People Who Have It first appeared on Bored Panda.

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I am an anti-domestic abuse advocate – but I failed to recognise it happening to me and my family

We may recognise coercive control in other relationships, even be experts in the space, and still fail to see the signs in our own lives. But it’s never too late to break free

The Guardian - AU

French MPs unanimously vote to publish Yellow Vests' 2019 public grievance log books

France's parliament – the National Assembly – on Tuesday voted unanimously on a resolution calling for the publication of the public complaints log books that were compiled in response to the "Yellow Vest" protests in 2018-2019.

Radio France Internationale

Sydney writers’ festival 2025: tallying authors’ views on Israel-Gaza ‘tokenistic and unfortunate’, organisers say

After the shock resignation of the festival’s chair, the Sydney writers’ festival unveils its starry 2025 program in ‘an incredibly polarised environment’

The Guardian - AU

Torrey Peters on life after a hit novel: ‘It had a very chilling effect on my writing’

Author of Detransition, Baby found success and pushback she never anticipated and now returns with a provocative collection of stories

The Guardian - US

Once the Deed Is Done by Rachel Seiffert review – mystery in the aftermath of the Third Reich

This fine novel investigates the fate of displaced people in the hazardous, dirty backwash of the second world war

The Guardian - UK

Checking out early: who is going to die in this season of The White Lotus?

The third season of Mike White’s delicious resort-set comedy drama has teased yet another murder but we don’t yet know the whos or the whys

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The Independent UK

‘Heinous amounts of butter and cheese!’ – Poppy O’Toole’s new cookbook is a spud-fuelled fever dream

Dubbed the ‘High Priestess of Potato’ by Nigella Lawson, Poppy O’Toole has built a career on her love of spuds. Now, with ‘The Potato Book’, the TikTok star is taking her obsession to decadent new heights – with a little help from an outrageous amount of butter, says Ella Walker

The Independent UK

‘Detransition Baby’ author Torrey Peters: ‘Being trans is a particular constellation of feelings that we all have’

INTERVIEW : The Women’s Prize-nominated author Torrey Peters speaks to Hannah Ewens about horny lumberjacks, creating work for a dark political future in the US and why she won’t stop writing from the trans female perspective

The Guardian - UK

Israeli police raid Palestinian bookshop in East Jerusalem twice in a month

Books about Banksy and by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé were removed, and one of the owners detained

Total Film

Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has a new update on The Winds of Winter: "I wish it would come faster"

The book was meant to be published in 2016

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Lauren Child in running for repeat Carnegie medal after 25 years

Former children’s laureate joins shortlists for prestigious children’s book prizes that ‘highlight the diversity and high quality’ in British work

The Conversation

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new book Dream Count explores love in all its complicated messiness

Award-winning Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel Dream Count has landed. It’s been over a decade since Adichie published her previous novel, Americanah, following on global successes for Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus.

Evening Standard

All you need to know about London Book Fair 2025 as thousands head to Kensington for annual event

Essential trade fair returns for 2025 with events and seminars

The Independent UK

Hay Festival 2025: ‘Carnival of ideas’ returns with new events programme

Annual literary event has become a prominent occasion in British culture and boasts a star-studded lineup with over 600 events

The Guardian - UK

William S Burroughs’s art: ‘He said, I killed the only woman I loved. Then broke down sobbing’

Notorious for his drug-fuelled literary experiments and the fact that he shot his partner, beat writer Burroughs also made art inspired by the climate crisis

The Guardian - UK

The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits review – a triumphant twist on the great American road novel

Fleeing a failing marriage and culture war battles, a man drives away from the wreckage of his past

The Guardian - UK

Carrion Crow by Heather Parry review – a stomach-clenching contender for awards

A woman is confined to the attic by her mother in a thrillingly told novel that revels in squalor

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