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No Kindle? No problem: 5 places to buy DRM-free e-books

If you don't own a Kindle you can't really get e-books from Amazon for your e-reader, but that doesn't mean you're out of luck. Here are some tips on how to get great ebooks for any e-reader, so you're not yoked to buying Kindles forever.

Tom’s Guide

The Great When by Alan Moore review – a riotous tour of occult London

With bravura brilliance, the Watchmen author conjures up a hyperreal fugitive city, populated by rogues and reprobates

The Guardian - UK

New memoir from Russian dissident Alexei Navalny reveals he knew he would die in prison

Excerpts of a memoir written by late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny revealed he believed he would die in prison, an event which finally occurred on February 16 at age 47. The New Yorker magazine published excerpts from the book, "Patriot", on Friday, ahead of its release on October 22.

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Queen Elizabeth Said She Hated One Thing About Meeting "Tourists"

The late monarch expressed a desire to go back to the good old days of royal visits.

Marie Claire

The Guardian view on Han Kang: a bold outsider has been rewarded

Editorial: This year’s winner of the Nobel prize for literature is another triumph for South Korean culture

The Guardian - UK

Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’ and ‘most dangerous person to this country,’ new book says

General Mark Milley expressed his concerns about Trump to author Bob Woodward in March 2023

The Independent UK

Sarah Ferguson releases new children’s book with environmental message

Fergie said the title was inspired by ‘how I brought my girls up’

The Independent UK

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Trump's unpredictability makes us nervous, says Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov

In this episode we take a look at life, war and politics in Ukraine, through the eyes of its most celebrated writer. Andrey Kurkov rose to international fame with "Death and the Penguin" more than 20 years ago, but he has many other novels to his name, including "The Silver…

France 24

Han Kang’s books sell out as South Korea celebrates her Nobel prize in literature

Nine of the Top 10 bestsellers in Korea’s largest bookstore chain are works by Han with her win being honoured by politicians, authors, readers and the entire country

The Guardian - UK

All of the bizarre celebrity encounters in Boris Johnson's memoir Unleashed

From mayoral meetings with Lily Allen to bathroom trips with Leonardo DiCaprio, Boris Johnson has had his fair share of odd celebrity run-ins. Claudia Cockerell on the strangest ones to grace the pages of Unleashed, his new book

Evening Standard

How to put your phone down and get back into habit of reading books

After an English academic at Oxford complained about students’ attention spans, we get experts’ tips on enjoying the written word

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Of course Camilla scorned a fish knife — could anything be more middle class?

There is something cheering about a world in which we can argue about fish knives. Anne Glenconner, once lady in waiting to Princess Margaret, raised the issue this week at the Cheltenham Literary Festival where she was promoting her book on picnics. She recalled having lunch with Camilla and her…

Evening Standard

May Day by Jackie Kay audiobook review – family, love and activism

The Scottish author and poet is a warm, wry companion in an autobiographical collection of poems, written in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths

The Guardian - UK

Stephen King: ‘I loved Lord of the Flies the way kids love Harry Potter’

The horror author on Dr Seuss, the radicalism of Earl Thompson, and the perfect whodunnit

The Guardian - UK

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Han Kang's Books Sell Out In South Korea After Nobel Win

Major South Korean bookstores sold out of author Han Kang's books Friday, as sales skyrocketed and the share price of local publishers soared following her historic Nobel Prize win.

The Guardian - UK

The Book of Abba by Jan Gradvall review – dark backstories and new revelations

From Himmler to herring, a Swedish journalist offers unexpected angles on the 70s supergroup

The Guardian - UK

Disclaimer review – only Cate Blanchett could deal with a script this abominable

Alfonso Cuarón’s new drama about a wife whose secrets are exposed looks beautiful. Sadly, it’s also slow, turgid and – despite stars like Kevin Kline – so bad it needs to be pureed into mush

The Guardian - UK

Sweetpea review – Ella Purnell’s deathly dull serial killer show reeks of cowardly decision-making

This insipid, humourless adaptation of CJ Skuse’s blackly comic Sweetpea books has been stripped of everything good. It seems to drag on forever

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The Guardian - UK

Imprisoned British-Egyptian activist named PEN writer of courage 2024

Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who is still in jail in Egypt despite completing his five-year sentence, was selected by PEN Pinter winner Arundhati Roy

The Guardian - UK

Nuclear war rehearsal and Gauguin biography make shortlist for Baillie Gifford prize

Books by Rachel Clarke, Richard Flanagan and Viet Thanh Nguyen are among the six competing for the nonfiction award

Evening Standard

The man behind Meghan Markle’s anti-stress patch

The Duchess of Sussex was spotted last year with a blue sticker on her wrist. Will Hosie talks to the man who sold it to her

The Conversation

Female Nazi concentration camp guards: the true horror lies in their similarities to ourselves

Between 1939 and 1945, around 10% of concentration camp guards were women, yet these Aufseherinnen (overseers) as they were known, barely feature in Holocaust history or literature. On the few occasions they do appear, it is most commonly as a masculinised sadist when the reality was much more complex.

The Guardian - UK

Han Kang’s Nobel win is testament to importance of small press publishing

Literature in translation has long been reliant on indie presses to bring work such as the South Korean author’s to wider audiences

Salon

"Three Women" expands our view of desire

"Everybody should feel important enough to tell their story," Taddeo says on the desired effect of the adaptation

The Guardian - AU

Some people bring drive and passion to their careers but I am more satisfied with conducting errands with aplomb

Though I have unfortunately had a career, my abiding love still remains the little job, the kind that divides the unbearable wash of our days into neat little segments

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