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My local bookshop has hit on an incredible business strategy: be nice to customers

It’s weird more high-street shops don’t behave like this. Friendliness is one of the few things they have going for them in the war against the machines, writes Joel Snape

The Guardian - UK

30Th Annual Audie Awards Nominees Announced

Explore the diverse nominees for the 30th Audie Awards, featuring renowned narrators and a wide range of audiobook genres.

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The kindness of strangers: I lost my Kindle – and the person who found it loved my book collection

We exchanged emails and arranged to meet. One friend quipped that if we got married it’d make a magnificent story

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D.H. Lawrence’s final days were marked by medical scepticism

As the NHS enters its annual winter crisis, we are encouraged to think carefully before ringing 111, 999 or going to A&E. Quite when to relinquish our bodies to the experts and accept all the accompanying anxieties of waiting for test results or treatment can be a problem, as it…

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Sweat by Emma Healey review – from trauma to treadmill

A personal trainer puts her abusive ex-boyfriend through his paces in a revenge tale from the author of Elizabeth Is Missing

The Guardian - UK

13 Fantasy Books to Read When You Need an Escape

If you need a bit of escapism, these #BookTok-obsessed series and enchanting novels will do the trick.

Marie Claire

“We have made the collective decision that 2025 will be our last year.” UK metal favourites Orange Goblin to break up after 2025 tour

The London metal crew will play in Europe and the US in spring and summer, and then… that’s all, folks!

Metal Hammer

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The Book of George by Kate Greathead review – male misadventures

This wryly comic tale follows the lives of a stunted antihero and his long-suffering girlfriend

The Guardian - UK

The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White review – a glorious celebration of queer love

In frank and hilarious style, the author recounts the significant encounters that helped make him who he is

The Guardian - UK

Australian independent publishing stalwart Text acquired by global giant Penguin Random House

Local publishing house says it will ‘retain creative control’ and no redundancies are planned for Melbourne office

The Guardian - AU

Children facing a ‘happiness recession’ says laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Author will highlight the ‘enormous disadvantage’ handed to children without access to books, and call on government to improve early-years literacy

The Guardian - UK

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has memoir coming out in June

Two years after her shocking decision to resign as prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern is set to publish a memoir about her eventful time in office

The Independent UK

Jacinda Ardern says upcoming memoir aimed at ‘anyone who has ever doubted themselves’

New Zealand former prime minister says A Different Kind of Power promotes her belief in ‘empathetic leadership’ and will be released in June

The Guardian - AU

Children’s Laureate Cottrell-Boyce warns early years reading at ‘crisis point’

Author Frank Cottrell-Boyce wants the Government to address the ‘invisible privilege and inequality’ of ‘more and more children’ falling behind.

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Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer, dies at 95

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer Jules Feiffer has died

Marie Claire

Why Princess Margaret Felt a "Deep Sense of Hurt and Betrayal" Because of Princess Diana

"She also made it clear to her children that she did not want them fraternizing with the enemy."

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Onyx Storm: Empyrean unabridged audiobook is out now and $41 off with 3 months of Audible

Out today, Onyx Storm: Empyrean is cheap on Audible for a limited time

GamesRadar

Hellboy creator Mike Mignola introduces a new folk horror shared world in Bowling With Corpses that will "Take inspiration from old stories and make them our own"

Interview | The legendary Hellboy creator on his new comics universe

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A Passage to India: how global pandemics shaped E.M. Forster’s final novel

E.M. Forster’s final novel and masterpiece, A Passage to India, celebrated its centenary in 2024. It tells the story of Adela Quested, who arrives in the city of Chandrapore with Mrs Moore, the mother of her fiancé, hoping to see “the real India”.

The Guardian - UK

Orgies, vampires and jewel-laden tortoises: it’s time we buried the myths of decadence in art

Is western civilisation being destroyed by its own decadence? Was the Roman empire? And does a preference for Lord of the Rings over The Matrix indicate that we are all doomed? Our critic tries to sift fact from fiction …

The Guardian - UK

Crime and thrillers of the month – review

Nicci French’s latest gem; an unsettling brainteaser from Japanese enigma Uketsu; the tensions that mar the maiden voyage of an airship; and a sojourn on a scary Scottish island

The Independent UK

12 comforting books to chase away the January blues

THE LIST: Battling a severe case of the January blues? These uplifting and inspiring books might just help to take the edge off, says Katie Inglis

Evening Standard

Third Thursday Murder Club book reaches platinum sales status for Richard Osman

The Last Devil To Die, the fourth book in the murder mystery series, was among five titles honoured at the annual Bestseller Awards.

The Guardian - UK

Richard Rathbone obituary

Other lives: Professor of African history at Soas who delighted in his membership of a local choir in Wales

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Mike Mignola says his new graphic novel is "entirely made of the stuff I love"

The Hellboy creator's new comic book, Bowling With Corpses, is steeped in myth and folklore.

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