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Sally Rooney says success of Normal People felt like ‘too much’

Irish author says she felt overwhelmed by the frenzy sparked by her book and the BBC’s 2020 adaptation starring Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones

The Independent UK

Sally Rooney is her own harshest critic – but that could be a good thing

The release of the Irish author’s latest novel, ‘Intermezzo’, is one of the biggest literary events of 2024, but Rooney is a writer who seems increasingly ill at ease with her ‘voice of a generation’ status, says Katie Rosseinsky

The Independent UK

Chris Brookmyre named as winner of major crime writing festival prize

Chris Brookmyre has been declared this year’s winner of the McIlvanney Prize for his latest crime thriller, The Cracked Mirror ...

The National (Scotland)

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Markus Zusak: ‘Yes, I swear at home and call my dog a bastard – that’s how we all live’

The global bestselling writer on the wildness, love and sorrow that defines life with dogs

The Guardian - AU

Netflix Just Quietly Released the Most Outdated Sci-Fi Thriller of 2024

This YA dystopian adaptation has been in production for three years, but it feels more like 13.

Inverse

My Friends by Hisham Matar audiobook review – life in exile

Three Libyan friends navigate life in London, separated from their families, in a meditative book steeped in the author’s own experience

The Guardian - UK

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera; Withered Hill by David Barnett; Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud; The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei; The Specimens by Hana Gammon

The Guardian - UK

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Bernardine Evaristo: ‘I’ve gone from being a raging ranter in my 20s to a radical reasoner in my 60s’

The Booker-winning author on the impact of Audre Lorde’s essays, being entranced by Dylan Thomas, and finding her poetic voice with Derek Walcott

The Guardian - UK

Yavuz Ekinci terrorist propaganda charges in Turkey are ‘bogus’, says PEN International

The writer could face up to seven-and-a-half years in prison for charges relating to his 2014 book about a Kurdish man who flees Turkey, which was banned there last year

The Guardian - UK

The name’s Bond... ‘Biffy’ Bond? The real-life sailor, spy and friend of Ian Fleming who ‘inspired 007’

The Bond-like adventures of Biffy began in 1916 in Russia and appear straight from the pages of 007 thrillers

The Independent UK

Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq review – the failure of politics

The chaos element of the populist right disrupts France’s weary liberal regime, in a novel of sadness and eerie serenity that marks a new direction

The Guardian - UK

Florida school district must restore books with LGBTQ+ content under settlement

A school district in northeast Florida must put back in libraries three dozen books as part of a settlement with students and parents

The Independent UK

NYPD ignores 100s of misconduct cases

The department has killed more than 400 substantiated cases of alleged misconduct this year

Salon

OPINION - Men don't read any more — what happened?

Why don’t men read? Oh, I know dear male Standard readers do, those urbane, literary, poised and secretly perverted doyens of good taste. But those other men, they are not reading fiction. Oh sure, they read Sir Alex Ferguson’s book, Lewis Hamilton’s book, books about cage fighters and career criminals,…

Evening Standard

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Total Film

First trailer for new Stephen King adaptation Salem's Lot is a mix between Midnight Mass and 30 Days of Night

He has risen...

Wallpaper

Fashion’s favourite bookstore, Climax, opens a ‘sexy, angry’ New York outpost

Wallpaper* catches up with Isabella Burley, founder of Climax, as she inaugurates a New York outpost of the cult bookstore and showcases a playful new collaboration with fashion label Chopova Lowena

The Guardian - AU

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty review – interesting premise, disappointing result

The Big Little Lies author imagines what would happen if a mysterious woman on a flight began predicting the deaths of her fellow passengers

The Guardian - UK

Early version of Lord of the Flies with different beginning to go on display

Manuscript that begins with boys evacuated amid nuclear war is part of exhibition marking 70 years since novel’s publication

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The Conversation

Johannesburg’s underbelly is explored in Niq Mhlongo’s fresh new novel about a messy break-up

Niq Mhlongo was born in Soweto, Johannesburg in 1973 and grew up under apartheid, South Africa’s institutionalised racial segregation under white minority rule. He graduated in political studies and African literature in 1996 and then studied law, but dropped out in his final year to become a writer instead.

The Guardian - UK

Five of the best books about female friendship

Sally Rooney, Alice Walker and Nancy Mitford are among the writers who have charted complex and profound bonds that can last a lifetime

The Guardian - UK

‘These books captured our hearts’: Jacqueline Wilson’s Girls series is back – and millennials are rejoicing

The beloved children’s author reunites readers with Ellie, Magda and Nadine, now 40 and grappling with parenthood, sex and divorce

The Guardian - AU

Prime Minister’s Literary awards 2024: Andre Dao wins $80,000 for debut novel Anam

Judges praise book as ‘profoundly relevant’, with Daniel Browning, Amy Crutchfield and Will Kostakis also winning in their categories

AAP

Dao's 'Anam' takes out PM's Literary Award for fiction

André Dao's novel Anam has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction, while a biography of Donald Horne by Ryan Cropp took out the prize for history.

The Guardian - UK

That’s me, Mum! The Nigerian author who wrote a book about her children … and joined a publishing revolution

Simone, 8, has Down’s syndrome. Unable to find stories that reflected her modern African family, her mother decided to fill the gap, then publishers came knocking

The Guardian - UK

What a Way to Go by Bella Mackie review – Succession-style satire

A vile multimillionaire dies in mysterious circumstances in this entertaining follow-up to How to Kill Your Family

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