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The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst review – a terrific queer coming-of-age debut

The delusions and desires of a precocious young boy are closely observed as he approaches his senior school years

The Guardian - UK

Mary and the Hyenas review – patchy ode to Wollstonecraft and women ‘howling at the world’

Snappy movement and a Billy Nomates score can’t make up for the lack of emotional range in this portrait of the 18th-century writer

The Guardian - UK

Fantasy fiction doesn’t need reclaiming for women – they already write and read it

Letters: Responding to an editorial about the surge in romantasy books, James Latimer writes that romance isn’t only for girls, and Yvonne Williams talks about the synergy of dragons and sex

The Guardian - UK

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Geraldine Brooks: ‘I felt like I was faking my life’

The Australian Pulitizer-prize winning author on love, grief and pretending to be normal while feeling anything but

The Guardian - AU

‘It changed my life’: Get Millie Black, the thrilling Caribbean crime drama shaking up TV

Booker prize winner Marlon James is breaking into television with his rave-reviewed cop show. Its creator and star talk wigs, unfinished business – and what it’s really like being queer in Jamaica today

The Guardian - UK

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer; The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths; Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito; The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha; The Weekenders by David F Ross

The Guardian - UK

Calum Nicholas: ‘I’m trying to inspire people from all backgrounds to look at F1’

‘It can be quite intimidating being the only black guy,’ the Red Bull mechanic, who is helping open up an overwhelmingly white business, tells Donald McRae

The Guardian - UK

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‘Let’s start a chapter of our own’: the couples who found love in bookshops

Lovers living out their Notting Hill fantasies, shy readers whose eyes met at a book club … readers give us a tour of the romance section for Valentine’s Day

The Guardian - UK

‘Important and beautiful’ 13th-century Bible returns to Salisbury

Sarum Master Bible to go on display at cathedral after being in private hands for almost 800 years

The Guardian - UK

Andrew McMillan: ‘As an atheist, the poetry of Mary Oliver is the closest I come to prayer’

The poet on his early love of horror and the transformative power of Thom Gunn

The Guardian - UK

After Revolution, Bangladesh Textbooks Rewrite History

Bangladeshi high schooler Laiba is being educated for the future, but what she learns has been determined by the latest chapter in her country's battle over its past.

International Business Times

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad review – a cathartic savaging of western hypocrisy over Gaza

The novelist and reporter delivers a passionate indictment of complacent liberal responses to Israel’s brutal campaign

The Guardian - UK

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico review: a self-skewering portrait of identikit hipsters

East London creatives (ELCs) are easy to spot. They wear carpenter’s trousers and Gore-tex to Columbia Road Flower Market, have weirdly strong opinions about tomato varieties and enjoy fiery debates about which Zone 2 pub serves the best Guinness. They might even have the Yves Klein blue cover of a…

Evening Standard

Spanish food without tomatoes and chilli? 14th-century cookbook shows you how

Recipes for offal and spice-heavy dishes in Book of Sent Sovi show how transatlantic travel reshaped cuisine

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Palestinian booksellers decry detention by Israeli police over ‘public disorder’

Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna remain under house arrest until Sunday, despite lack of evidence against them

The Independent UK

Interviewer who tried to stop knife attack on novelist Salman Rushdie initially thought it was a prank

Henry Reese, 75, had just sat down to interview Rushdie when the author was stabbed in a frenzied knife attack

The Guardian - UK

The Autobiography of a Cad review – Ian Hislop and Nick Newman retell a rotter’s political progress

The Private Eye duo adapt AG Macdonell’s satire showing how a privileged chancer in English public life gets away with it

Salon

"Ribbons of Rust" traces Beatles' roots

Robert Rodriguez and Jerry Hammack’s book traces The Beatles’ formative years, exploring what shaped their rise

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The Conversation

X has been used to represent love and kisses for centuries. But how did it start?

“1,000 Letters and 15,000 Kisses” screamed the headline in an 1898 edition of the English newspaper, the Halifax Evening Courier.

The Conversation

Eight of the most romantic poems to read to your love this Valentine’s Day

For many of us, the run-up to Valentine’s Day is spent seeking out the least cringe-worthy card in the shop to gift to our significant other, and show them how we really feel. But, unfortunately, Hallmark rhymes rarely mine the depths of love and desire.

The Guardian - AU

Somebody Down There Likes Me by Robert Lukins review – a dispiriting imitation of Succession

Yet another trendy tale of feckless, all-American cruelty, following a family of late-capitalist tropes whose empire is about to fall

The Independent UK

It's a publishing fairy tale. 'Hansel and Gretel' is reimagined by Stephen King and Maurice Sendak

An upcoming edition of “Hansel and Gretel” combines the dark and singular talents of two literary giants who apparently never met: Stephen King and the late Maurice Sendak

The Guardian - UK

Base Notes by Adelle Stripe review – an olfactory trip down memory lane

The novelist uses perfume to conjure scenes from a working-class upbringing in this funny, bleak memoir

The Guardian - UK

Ex-England manager Gareth Southgate to publish new book on leadership

Dear England: Lessons on Leadership, which ‘transcends football’ and offers advice on resilience and performance for individuals and organisations, will come out in October

The National (Scotland)

Alan Cumming to present free DJ set at Scottish literary festival

ALAN Cumming will present a DJ set at this year's Winter Words Festival in Pitlochry.

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