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Is Colleen Hoover Retiring? Silence Amid Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's Lawsuit Sparks Rumours

Bestselling author Colleen Hoover is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Hoover recently deactivated her Instagram, sparking speculation that she may retire from writing for life.

International Business Times UK · Jan 30, 2025

The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride review – brilliantly rule-breaking fiction

The couple from The Lesser Bohemians return in this innovative tale of two lovers and of London, in all its sadness and grunginess and grandeur

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2025

Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story review – engaging study of a life less ordinary

One of Ireland’s most important novelists and a woman of fierce intelligence and bravery is celebrated in Sinéad O’Shea’s thoroughly enjoyable documentary

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2025

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Netflix announces Little House On The Prairie reboot after original’s streaming resurgence

The original series was based on the best-selling books by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Independent UK · Jan 29, 2025

William E. Leuchtenburg, eminent presidential historian and Ken Burns consultant, dies at 102

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The Independent UK · Jan 29, 2025

BBC confirms fate of Lesley Manville's murder mystery drama

The adventure isn't over for book editor turned super sleuth Susan

WhatToWatch · Jan 29, 2025

South African poetry has a new digital archive – what’s behind the project

South African poetry, rich with history, has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country’s cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is helping change that.

The Conversation · Jan 29, 2025

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Dan Brown’s next thriller ‘The Secret of Secrets’ gets release date

Brown’s new novel begins with Langdon, the Harvard symbologist, in Prague

The Independent UK · Jan 29, 2025

How 19th-century melodrama turned the sweet music of gothic into something dark and sinister

In 1764, Horace Walpole published the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, set in a labyrinthine castle surrounded by woods. The novel features the supernatural, with a dark secret from the past at its core. Today, 260 years later, gothic is still with us in the form of “contemporary…

The Conversation · Jan 29, 2025

Northern Ballet: Three Short Ballets review – star-crossed lovers, a sunny party and a 20th-century classic

Mthuthuzeli November expertly fuses ballet, contemporary and South African dance in Fools. Plus five minutes of fun from Kristen McNally and Rudi van Dantzig’s Four Last Songs

The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2025

Greatest of All Time by Alex Allison review – desire on the football pitch

The story of a secret relationship between two Premier League teammates explores power and homophobia

The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2025

A Training School for Elephants by Sophy Roberts review – the haunting story of a doomed expedition

History and travelogue combine wonderfully in this tale of colonial plunder and hubris

The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2025

Deviants by Santanu Bhattacharya review – gay life in India

An epic tale of love across three generations explores changing attitudes towards sexuality in India

The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2025

‘I was told books don’t sell here. I knew that wasn’t true’: the English teacher shaking up Nigeria’s publishing scene

After a brush with death pushed Othuke Ominiabohs to self-publish his novels, he realised there was a gap in the market for fresh African writing

The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2025

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The National (Scotland) · Jan 28, 2025

'Not in that weight class' - I wanted to invest in Rangers but it'd take up to $50m

Businessman Scott Galloway - who wanted to invest in Rangers - has claimed it would cost between $10m to $50m to become a "legitimate…

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2025

Paul Holmes obituary

Other lives: Child and adolescent psychiatrist who specialised in psychodrama

Antony Blinken To Release Book On Diplomatic Challenges

Antony Blinken's upcoming book will provide insights into global crises during his tenure as Secretary of State under President Biden.

Marie Claire · Jan 28, 2025

The 25 Best Romance Novels of 2025

We're obsessed with these new books from Abby Jimenez, Emily Henry, and Jasmine Guillory.

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Evening Standard · Jan 28, 2025

OPINION - Rachel Johnson: I broke the Neil Gaiman story, but I never wanted him cancelled like this

When I got first an Instagram message, then a long email, from a young Kiwi called Scarlett back in October 2023, alleging an unnamed British author was a “predator “and “despot”, only one man’s name came to mind.

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2025

I’ve Never Wanted Anyone More review – Goethe’s Werther remade as charming contempo romcom

An 18th-century love triangle relocated to the well-to-do of modern Toronto is big on banter and farce even if real passion is sometimes lacking

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2025

Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line by Elizabeth Lovatt – a heartfelt history of the gay community

The British author’s remarkable debut uses a gay telephone helpline’s logs as the jumping-off point for a moving and inclusive fusion of personal memoir and cultural document

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2025

TV tonight: Aubrey Gordon’s candid look at the way society treats ‘fatness’

The author and activist argues for a shift in the way we view size. Plus: the life and legacy of Emily Brontë. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - US · Jan 27, 2025

‘Civil rights fight of our time’: new film explores the battle over US libraries

A Sarah Jessica Parker-produced documentary on the brave librarians fighting a wave of rightwing book bans has sparked conversation at Sundance

The Independent UK · Jan 27, 2025

Neil Gaiman, facing multiple allegations of sexual abuse, is dropped by Dark Horse Comics

One of Neil Gaiman’s publishers has dropped him as the British author faces multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment

The Conversation · Jan 27, 2025

Atonement by Ian McEwan is a meditation on creativity in later life

In Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001), aspiring writer 13-year-old Briony Tallis glimpses a world of opaque “adult emotion”. Holding a pen and blank paper before her, she feels a powerful impulse to write in order to impose order and meaning on adulthood’s slippery uncertainties.

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