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Jess Kidd: ‘My older sister taught me to read with Mills & Boon’

The author on growing up with tales of swooning heroines, the thrill of Dylan Thomas and the genius of George Saunders

The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2025

Succession star Matthew Macfadyen to play George Smiley in fresh John le Carré adaptation

Actor will follow in the footsteps of Gary Oldman, Rupert Davis, Alec Guinness and Denholm Elliott

The Independent UK · Mar 14, 2025

The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – ‘It was like fresh air’

A fascinating, exciting history of how the agency smuggled subversive books across the iron curtain

The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2025

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Matthew Macfadyen to play George Smiley in new John le Carré TV show

Succession star lined up to play the famous spymaster in Legacy of Spies, a new small-screen adaptation that will draw on several of le Carré’s bestselling books

The Guardian - AU · Mar 14, 2025

Russell Brand sued for £220,000 by publishers after failing to write two books

The comedian and actor, who has denied claims of sexual misconduct by several women, had reportedly agreed a deal to write two books for Pan Macmillan

The Independent UK · Mar 13, 2025

John Feinstein, bestselling author and one of country's foremost sports writers, dies at 69

John Feinstein, one of the country’s foremost sports writers and the author of numerous bestselling books, died unexpectedly Thursday

The Independent UK · Mar 13, 2025

Sadiq Khan demands book exchanges reinstated in Tube stations amid fire safety row

TfL had ordered the libraries’ removal for fire safety reasons outlined by the LFB - but Mayor says he is hoping for ‘very swift announcement of a U-turn’

Evening Standard · Mar 13, 2025

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Brian Maidment obituary

Other lives: Academic expert on downmarket illustrated books, prints and ephemera of Georgian and Victorian eras

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2025

OPINION - Long live the book exchanges on the Tube: they're the best of London

Thank you Sadiq Khan, for seeing the light. Whatever your critics make of you, surely they can’t criticise you for this: stopping books being removed from tube stations.

Evening Standard · Mar 13, 2025

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams review – Zuckerberg and me

An eye-opening insider account of Facebook alleges a bizarre office culture and worrying political overreach

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2025

Signs of Damage by Diana Reid review – gripping thriller of unsolved mysteries

In her third book, the author of Love and Virtue slyly subverts the trauma plot to take aim at our impulse to reduce the messiness of life to a neat narrative

The Guardian - AU · Mar 13, 2025

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 · Mar 13, 2025

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 · Mar 13, 2025

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2025

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The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2025

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 Conversation · Mar 12, 2025

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 Independent UK · Mar 12, 2025

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

Who killed Donald Goines

Evening Standard · Mar 12, 2025

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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Bored Panda · Mar 12, 2025

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.

The Guardian - AU · Mar 12, 2025

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

Radio France Internationale · Mar 12, 2025

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.

The Guardian - AU · Mar 12, 2025

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 - US · Mar 12, 2025

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 - UK · Mar 12, 2025

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 - US · Mar 12, 2025

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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