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Edinburgh book festival to focus on hope with line-up including Kureishi and Sturgeon

Former footballer Ally McCoist also among guests as festival seeks to broaden its appeal

The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2025

TikTok grandmother Norma, 91, dies as legion of fans pay tribute to 'nation's Nana'

Norma’s family said they had lost “our rock” in a joint statement published on their TikTok page last night

Evening Standard · Jun 10, 2025

Frederick Forsyth obituary

Foreign correspondent who went on to become a hugely successful thriller writer best known for The Day of the Jackal

The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2025

Sex, grief and debauchery: Gráinne O’Hare on her blazing millennial novel Thirst Trap

INTERVIEW: As post-Sally Rooney Irish lit is booming, the 32-year-old writer talks to Ellie Harrison about her tale of a group of Belfast women stumbling through life and loss as they wave their twenties goodbye

The Independent UK · Jun 9, 2025

The Guardian view on coming-out tales: from A Boy’s Own Story to What It Feels Like for a Girl

Editorial: Groundbreaking memoirs continue to shape the history of LGBTQ+ rights

The Guardian - UK · Jun 8, 2025

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o obituary

Distinguished Kenyan novelist, poet and academic who championed writing in African languages rather than in English

The Guardian - UK · Jun 8, 2025

‘I’m here to open doors’: Bernardine Evaristo on success, controversy and why she plans to donate her £100k award

The Girl, Woman, Other author has this week been awarded a one-off Women’s prize award for her outstanding contribution. She talks about her long road to recognition, and using her profile to support other writers

The Guardian - UK · Jun 8, 2025

Finding Margaret by Andrew Pierce review: A moving tale of abandonment

Andrew Pierce’s moving memoir is dedicated “to Betty and George, my real mum and dad”. That puts the story that follows in perspective. It’s about his search for his birth mother. But we know at the start that it has a happy ending, because Betty and George were there for…

Evening Standard · Jun 8, 2025

Stephen King puts the Trump and Musk feud into perspective with one scathing question

‘The world actually has problems,’ complained the author when addressing the fallout between the pair

The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2025

Electric Spark by Frances Wilson review: Muriel is as intriguing as her novels

What is so fascinating about Muriel Spark? In the last decade before she died aged 88 in 2006, any interview with the Scottish author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie became an event. The excitement was firstly because she was an artist of the old school, famous not only…

Evening Standard · Jun 7, 2025