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Goncourt winner Kamel Daoud accused of exploiting war survivor’s story

Kamel Daoud, the Franco-Algerian author who recently won the Goncourt Prize for his novel Houris, is being accused by an Algerian civil war survivor of using her personal story without consent. The allegations, which include claims of breaching medical confidentiality, have sparked legal action in Algeria.

Radio France Internationale

Haruki Murakami: ‘My books have been criticised so much over the years, I don’t pay much attention’

As his new novel is published, the acclaimed author discusses complexity, writing female characters and meeting his fans

The Guardian - UK

Surrealism, cafes and lots (and lots) of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming

From tales of alienation to comforting novels set in bookshops, Japanese authors have written nearly half of this year’s bestselling translated novels in the UK. What’s their secret?

The Guardian - UK

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The Strangers by Ekow Eshun review – five Black pioneers

From Malcolm X to Justin Fashanu, Eshun uses historical figures to illuminate contemporary struggles – and his own alienation

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Lesley Manville and Daniel Mays’s super fun whodunnit

Moonflower Murders is a double-timeline murder mystery. Plus: Sally Phillips has a hoot as she celebrates 30 years of comedy. Here’s everything to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Anti-racism campaigner’s London book events cancelled amid threat of far-right violence

Freedom of speech groups alarmed after events to promote book by Hope Not Hate employee are called off

The Guardian - UK

Iconic brutalist building documented in new book following demolition announcement

A COMMUNITY’S relationship with one of Scotland’s most notorious brutalist structures at the heart of a town’s centre has been explored by a…

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Alarm In France Over Fate Of Detained French-Algerian Writer

Alarm grew in France on Friday over the fate of a prominent French-Algerian novelist detained in the country of his birth, with his publisher urging his immediate release and President Emmanuel Macron closely following the case.

International Business Times

TikTok owner ByteDance to publish print books

8th Note Press, an imprint launched by ByteDance, will print novels in genres popular on BookTok including YA and contemporary fiction and ‘romantasy’

The Guardian - UK

Pretentious, moi?: Josh Brolin’s poetry about Dune has landed, whether we like it or not

Brolin’s verses about Timothée Chalamet and Florence Pugh have now found their way into a London art gallery in the form of Dune: Exposures

The Guardian - UK

France 'concerned' over disappearance of writer Boualem Sansal in Algeria

France says it's "very concerned" about the disappearance of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who has not been heard from since he was reportedly taken into police custody upon his arrival in Algeria on Saturday. Sansal is a well-known critic of Algeria’s government and a vocal opponent of Islamic fundamentalism.

Radio France Internationale

People laughed at my interest in my grandson’s footy team - but I found it a source of strange bliss

I always knew football draws to the surface a whole well of emotion. What I didn’t know was I too contained such a well

The Guardian - AU

Graduate students explore America’s polarized landscape via train in this course

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

The Conversation

Shortlisted 4thWrite prize stories reveal ‘desire to connect’

The six entries in the running for the short story prize for unpublished writers of colour, share a common interest in ‘exploring interiority and the nature of human existence’

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You Are Here by David Nicholls audiobook review – a rain-soaked rural romcom

Narrators Lydia Leonard and Lee Ingleby capture the wit and wisdom at the heart of the One Day author’s story of a hike in the Lake District

The Guardian - US

Trump’s Pentagon pick Hegseth wrote of US military taking sides in ‘civil war’

Defense secretary pick said in 2020 that should Democrats win election the military ‘will be forced to make a choice’

GamesRadar

After 11 years, The Witcher series is getting a brand-new book and it sounds like everything Geralt's actor wants from The Witcher 4

The book goes back to Geralt's "teenage years"

The Guardian - UK

Tracy Chevalier: ‘Woolf’s The Waves will be like medicine – I won’t like it, but it will do me good’

The novelist on the comfort of Dodie Smith, how Anne Tyler made her want to be a writer – and why she doesn’t reread books

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Metal Hammer

“We go very deep into the struggles of starting the band, the impact of the tape-trading community back then, and loads of stories and interesting moments that led to the band being where we are today”: A Kreator biography is coming in 2025

Singer/guitarist Mille Petrozza has co-written a book about the thrash metal veterans’ first 10 years of service, expected next year

The Guardian - UK

Microsoft launches imprint that aims to be faster than traditional book publishing

Named after an Intel microprocessor, 8080 Books aims to ‘shorten the lag between the final manuscript and the book’s arrival in the marketplace’

Evening Standard

Queen congratulates teenage winners of Commonwealth essay competition

The awards ceremony was hosted at Buckingham Palace.

The Guardian - AU

Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – what should a novel look like?

The Miles Franklin winner’s most experimental book yet opens as fiction interrupted by a narrator who starts picking apart her life and feelings about writing

The Guardian - UK

Downfall by Nadine Dorries review – wild wild Westminster

The former culture secretary’s ‘real-life political thriller’ takes in sex parties and pasta plotters – but raises more questions than it answers

Texas Observer

Seeing the Unseen

"The perfect gardener leaves the yard looking as though it were nature itself. ... And thus, say I, are we."

Evening Standard

Neighbours react to critical report into running of Captain Tom Foundation

The charities watchdog found there had been repeated instances of misconduct by the veteran’s daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, and her husband Colin.

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