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Gliff by Ali Smith review – reading the signs of crisis

Two children decode a dystopia, in a chilling and wistful novel that speaks to our times

The Guardian - UK

Chaumet’s new book celebrates its most memorable collaborations with photographers

'Chaumet: Photographers’ Gaze' unites jewellery editorials and campaigns captured by major photographers. Co-author Carol Woolton tells us of the ‘addictive' Chaumet archive

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King axes Andrew’s £1 million annual ‘living allowance’

The move will be seen as another step by Charles to publicly distance himself from his younger brother.

Evening Standard

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Tech of the Week: Rapha goes 'the extra mile' to celebrate its 20th anniversary, new threads from Universal Colours and Assos plus hybrid e-bikes from Cannondale

Iconic clothing brand marks time with a weighty tome, winter kit from Assos and Universal Colours plus Cannondale refreshes its electric hybrid line

Cycling Weekly

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman demonstrates the impact of ChatGPT on forensic linguistics

This article contains spoilers for We Solve Murders.

The Conversation

Emma Ríos's Anzuelo is a beautiful and surreal story of survival and the sea

The Pretty Deadly artist writes and draws the new graphic novel

GamesRadar

Jodi Picoult's 'Nineteen Minutes' tops PEN America of books banned in schools

Jodi Picoult's “Nineteen Minutes” has topped a list compiled by PEN America of the books most often pulled from school shelves

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On Bullfighting by AL Kennedy audiobook review – dances with death

The author confronts her own mortality with candour and crisp humour in this thoughtful exploration of bullfighting

The Guardian - UK

The best recent poetry – review roundup

An Arbitrary Light Bulb by Ian Duhig; What the Earth Seemed to Say by Marie Howe; Collected Poems by Mimi Khalvati; Ceremony for the Nameless by Theresa Lola; Girl by Ruth Padel

The Guardian - UK

IYKYK: When Novels Speak a Language Only Part of the Internet Gets

Every time the names of products or microcelebrities appear in a book, they prick us like a targeted ad

The Walrus

William Boyd: ‘Fantasy is a genre that I cannot abide any more’

The novelist on why he can’t read JRR Tolkien anymore, being hooked on Muriel Spark and obsessed with James Joyce

The Guardian - UK

Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton review – woman meets leveret

Burnt out by the London rat race, the writer retreats to the countryside where a chance encounter changes her life

The Guardian - UK

Shelf-sharing Seeks To Save Bookstores In Japan

"I'm holding an illustrated book of cheeses," says a delighted Tomoyo Ozumi, a customer at a growing kind of bookshop in Japan where anyone wanting to sell their tomes can rent a shelf.

International Business Times

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month

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Evening Standard

Gliff by Ali Smith review: a poetic, dystopian puzzlebox

“See what a simple line, a visible mark of the utmost simplicity and cheapness, can do to a populace?” In Ali Smith’s new novel, Gliff, that line is painted in crude bright red around the houses of those the state has deemed “unverified”. It means ostracisation, re-education and worse. It…

The Independent UK

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light – Who’s who in the cast of the new Hilary Mantel adaptation?

‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Succession’ stars join the cast for the new episodes of the BBC One historical drama

The Conversation

African publishing is being revolutionised – report explores trends in six countries

African book publishing is in a rare moment of transformation, according to a new report. It’s an industry that has historically survived at the mercy of multinational publishing houses and donor funding. These arrangements, subject to the dictates of capitalism or aid, have not been sustainable.

Total Film

Bond star Lashana Lynch explains why she was "actually quite happy" not to work closely with Eddie Redmayne in new cat-and-mouse thriller The Day of the Jackal

Exclusive: The Marvel actor, who executive produced the show, also opens up on the "strange similarities" between her MI6 agent and Redmayne's assassin

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The Guardian - UK

The Hotel by Daisy Johnson review – chilling tales for Halloween

There are shades of The Shining and Shirley Jackson in these atmospheric short stories set around a haunted hotel in the Fens

WhatToWatch

Netflix quietly adds violently funny crime series based on bestseller

Murder Mindfully sees a lawyer turn killer after going on a mindfulness course

The National (Scotland)

Women dominate fiction shortlist for Scotland’s National Book Awards

WOMEN writers dominate the fiction shortlist for Scotland’s National Book Awards, which organisers said showcase the “dazzling variety” of…

Evening Standard

Lee Child and Ozzy Osbourne among those standing against Israel writer boycotts

They signed a letter from Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) in ‘support of freedom of expression and against discriminatory boycotts’.

The Guardian - UK

Nobel and Pulitzer winners denounce ‘dangerous’ Israel cultural boycott

More than 1,000 well-known figures sign open letter in response to authors pledging to boycott Israeli cultural institutions over Gaza

The Conversation

Ali Smith’s new novel Gliff is a dystopian nightmare with flashes of fairytale enchantment

Ali Smith’s Gliff is set “once upon a time, not very far from now”. It is a kind of fairytale of the future in which two children, Briar and Rose, navigate a world which seems increasingly baffling and hostile.

The Guardian - UK

‘Sex writing feels less cringe now’: are we entering a new era of erotic literature?

As the Erotic Review is joined by dating app Feeld’s literary magazine and Gillian Anderson’s anthology of women’s fantasies, there seems to be a fresh appetite for writing about desire

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