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Paris Photo fair focuses on photo books and their publishers

The 27th annual Paris Photo, the world’s largest photography fair, began on 7 November at the Grand Palais. The event, this year, showcased 45 publishers presenting everything from best-selling editions to experimental Japanese "object books", and highlighting the growing, albeit niche, market for photography publications.

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Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey favourites to win 2024 Booker prize

American author Everett and British writer Harvey have been given the shortest odds of winning the £50,000 literary prize but Ladbrokes say the ‘race is wide-open’

The Guardian - UK

The Twistiest Sci-Fi Epic of 2024 Falls Short of Its Massive Ambitions

Who could’ve foretold that a Dune prequel without the dune would’ve been so boring?

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Handmaid's Tale, 1984 book sales rise

Dystopian fare isn't the only politically inspired reading material that's flying off the shelves

Salon

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light review – six hours of utter TV magic

The final instalment of Hilary Mantel’s masterpiece is the most intricate television you are ever likely to see. It is so beautifully made it’s breathtaking

The Guardian - UK

'You bloody beauty': Peter FitzSimons to launch new war book at Hamilton

Albert Jacka was 'Australia's greatest frontline soldier'.

Newcastle Herald

Paul Bailey obituary

Writer best known for the novel Gabriel’s Lament and a sympathetic biography of the brothel madam Cynthia Payne

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Her Lotus Year by Paul French review – Wallis Simpson’s Shanghai story

A new account of the months Simpson spent in China debunks the well-worn gossip about sexual adventures and opium addiction and even invites admiration for a ‘buccaneering’ woman

The Guardian - UK

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami review – a lack of magic and meaning

Murakami’s 15th novel retreads a form of magical realism that hasn’t evolved

The Guardian - UK

Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse review – the Nobel laureate’s mystical account of where we begin and end

In this republished novella from 2000 about a fisherman and his son, the Norwegian writer captures the puzzlement and wonder of the human condition

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Who Owns Football?; The Caretaker; The Land in Winter

A deep dive into football’s puppet masters; an evocative slice of Americana; and another tour de force from Pure author Andrew Miller

The Guardian - UK

Booker prize 2024: and the winner is... you, the reader

The judges have a hard task at this week’s Booker prize ceremony with five of the six shortlisted books worthy winners, though Percival Everett’s James – a retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn – is the title to put your money on

The Guardian - UK

Radical struggles and revolution: The book unearthing the subversive history of Paradise Lost

THE READING LIST: Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes Claire Allfree

The Independent UK

Iconic Scottish band singer opens up on diagnosed health condition in latest book

IN the late 1980s, Stuart Murdoch was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), known as chronic fatigue syndrome. It was a difficult period in…

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Carrying book of remembrance was ‘unbelievable’, says Army veteran

Alex Lowe carried the book on stage with medic Hayley Lawrence, who helped treat him in Afghanistan.

The Guardian - UK

Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing: ‘Working while grieving was consoling’

The editor and author on completing the memoir by her late friend, Swedish writer Johanna Ekström, where she stands on the assisted dying bill and what she’s reading

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Monty Don’s cultural highlights

The Gardeners’ World presenter on being a sucker for spy stories, pub nights in the early 70s, and having his prejudices challenged by a gigantic floral dog

The Guardian - UK

‘It will renew your faith in humanity’: books to bring comfort in dark times

The best literary comfort reads rebuild our strength so we can face reality, argues novelist Francesca Segal. She picks her ultimate reading list – with help from Nick Hornby, Sathnam Sanghera and Naomi Alderman

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India's ban on Salman Rushdie 'The Satanic Verses' may end — thanks to missing paperwork

The decadeslong ban of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” in his native India is now in doubt

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The Goddamn Tragedy is a gruesome horror western with "an atmosphere like The Shining" inspired by the infamous Donner Party

The new one-shot is by Chris Condon and Shawn Kuruneru

The Guardian - UK

Long Island by Colm Tóibín review – Jessie Buckley shines voicing the sequel to Brooklyn

The Irish actor’s nuanced narration captures the conflicting emotions in Tóibín’s tale of infidelity, homecoming and the roads not taken

The Guardian - UK

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

Blood Over Bright Haven by ML Wang; Jackal by Erin E Adams; The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis; Curdle Creek by Yvonne Battle-Felton; The Incubations by Ramsey Campbell

The Guardian - UK

Indian import ban on Rushdie’s Satanic Verses to end as no official order found

Government unable to produce ‘untraceable’ notification against 1988 novel when citizen brought matter to court

The Independent UK

Handmaid’s Tale soars 400 places to third place on bestseller charts after Trump win

Other dystopian titles have seen up to a 30,000 per cent surge in sales

The Guardian - US

Project 2025 chief’s book urges ‘burning’ of FBI, New York Times and Boy Scouts

Revealed: new book by far-right Kevin Roberts calls for conservatives to ‘burn away the rot’ of US institutions

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