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Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker: a tumultuous examination of the impact of domestic abuse on motherhood

Clove is a young woman with a seemingly good life. She has an adoring husband, two healthy, happy children and a comfortable home in Portland, a pleasant US city. She is a perfectionist with an obsession with clean eating and super-health who has spent years building such “perfection”.

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Steve Biko, the South African struggle hero who was prepared to sacrifice his life for black liberation

What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of one’s commitment to one’s freedom? Jacob Dlamini explores this and other questions in his new book, Dying for Freedom: Political Martyrdom in South Africa. This edited extract, from the chapter Dead and Proud, focuses on Steve Biko’s attitude to martyrdom and…

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Opera Eucalyptus is a lush adaptation of Murray Bail’s novel – with a modern twist

My first curiosities about the new opera Eucalyptus, an adaptation of Murray Bail’s multi-award-winning 1998 novel, were regarding how Ellen and the many stories told to her by her ultimately successful suitor would be portrayed.

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‘A shell of the place it used to be’: readers on the importance of libraries - and their fragile future

As sources of inspiration, havens from noise or social support service, council-run libraries have had a positive impact on lives all over the UK

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Star Wars #50 ends the current era of Marvel's Star Wars comics with a confrontation between Luke Skywalker and Ben Solo

Star Wars #50 marks the end of an era for Marvel's Star Wars line

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"Secret Lesbian Sex Threesomes" Libel Lawsuit Against Kentucky 2022 Teacher of the Year

Here's the exchange, from defendant's declaration in Hart v. Carver (D. Md.): And here's the defendant's account of the facts (which is considerably more detail than the account in the plaintiffs' Complaint): I was a classroom teacher in Kentucky from 2013 through 2022, and was the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of…

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The beloved best-selling books on Amazon, from Colleen Hoover to ACOTAR

Keep up with the kids and delve into the current popular literature

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Fictional sleuth Sam Spade will be back on the job in upcoming novel by Max Allan Collins

The story of one of the great fictional sleuths, Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade, will be continued by prize-winning crime writer Max Allan Collins

The Independent UK

Netflix is Rebooting an Infamous Vampire Saga in a Surprising Way

Netflix and Lionsgate are teaming up for an animated 'Twilight' reboot, and it's just what the franchise needs.

Inverse

George R.R. Martin's 'House of the Dragon' Rant Gets One Crucial Detail Wrong

The author who gave us 'Game of Thrones' and its prequel may be an excellent storyteller, but he needs to accept that TV is an entirely different medium.

Inverse

Slow Horses: high drama and comedy abound in this gripping spy thriller about reject spooks

The slow horses are a group of MI5 rejects who have been condemned to Slough House (their name a pun on the building they work in) after messing up, but not enough to get fired. Here, this group of misfits grind though dull administrative tasks under the occasional verbal abuse…

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The First Friend review – one of history’s greatest monsters reimagined in jet-black satire

A toxic friendship between a Soviet despot and his chauffeur is the basis for a novel that channels Armando Iannucci with a laconically Australian twist

The Guardian - AU

Melania Trump promotes new ‘deeply personal’ memoir with dramatic video

Ex-First Lady says her forthcoming book will ‘clarify the facts’

The Independent UK

Five of the best books translated from Polish

The wide breadth of Polish humour and humanity is all here, from reportage and absurdist satire to historical epics and soulful poetry

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Nadine Dorries pledges to expose 'Westminster group sex parties' in bizarre book ad

FOR everyone that didn’t read Nadine Dorries’s first book about the shadowy figures plotting to bring down democracy in the UK, there is another…

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How Sigmund Freud attempted to solve the ‘riddle’ of Leonardo da Vinci’s genius

The idea that prowess in activities like playing chess or writing poetry might be “fuelled” by frustrated, unconscious sexual desire is fairly well known today. But writing more than a century ago, Sigmund Freud was considered radical in his explanation of how sexual impulses could be transformed into creative or…

The Guardian - AU

Melissa Lucashenko wins $30,000 prize for novel that ‘elevates our understanding of Queensland’s soul’

Edenglassie, about the colonisation of the place now called Brisbane, has won the highest accolade at the state’s 2024 literary awards

Inverse

90 Years Later, The Weirdest Lord of the Rings Character Just Got Even More Elusive

Tom Bombadil has made his long-awaited live action appearance in 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.' But do we know more or less about now than before?

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The Independent UK

What women fantasise about – according to Gillian Anderson’s unflinching new book

From doing it with Harry Potter characters to craving good old fashioned tenderness, it’s all there in this new collection of fantasies

The Guardian - UK

The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle review – hilarity and hard times

In the third Paula Spencer novel, set during lockdown, mother and daughter are haunted by a history of violence, but revel in some late-life freedom

The Guardian - UK

Salman Rushdie’s knife attack memoir longlisted for Baillie Gifford prize

Books by Richard Flanagan, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Rachel Cockerell and Jonathan Blitzer also in running for £50,000 nonfiction award

The Guardian - AU

‘Simpler is not better’: George RR Martin blasts House of the Dragon over plot changes

Game of Thrones author reveals he ‘argued against’ a character being removed entirely, saying other planned changes will result in ‘larger and more toxic’ complications

Woman & Home

Want by Gillian Anderson reveals 'women's deepest internal desires' – the thought-provoking read is hard to put down

The 'dear Gillian' project saw over 1800 women anonymously submit their deepest sexual fantasies

Salon

Stephen King on Fla. banning his books

Twenty-three of King's books have been banned in Florida school libraries

The Independent UK

George RR Martin complains House of the Dragon changes ‘weakened’ the story

Author also warned there are ‘larger and more toxic’ changes planned for seasons three and four

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