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‘Radical’, ‘a headrush’, ‘insanely clever’: the best Australian books out in July

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

The Guardian - AU

End of Summer: release date, cast, plot and everything we know

End of Summer is a Swedish crime drama...

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My Lady Jane season 2: everything we know

Will My Lady Jane season 2 be riding on to our screens in the future?

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As a Harry Potter fan I visited the bookshop in Porto that 'inspired' JK Rowling — here's what I discovered

Livraria Lello in Porto is known as the most beautiful bookshop in the world — but it is also surrounded by an urban myth.

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Georgia lawsuit challenges anti-LGBTQ+ book bans over ‘real harms’

Lawsuit says student and youth groups hurt after teacher was fired for reading My Shadow is Purple to students

The Guardian - US

“Creativity can be spontaneous”: Designer David Airey shares a career’s worth of insights

In his book Identity Designed: The Process, David Airey offers up lessons he’s learned through his career to guide designers through navigating their own work.

Creative Bloq

Cannabis will likely soon be legally classified as medicine. But medicine for what?

Experts say the DEA’s rescheduling of cannabis as a medication will be ‘a little bit incoherent’

The Guardian - US

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I Will Crash by Rebecca Watson review – a unique take on sibling torment

A woman is haunted by her abusive relationship with her brother in this experimental novel of family trauma and memory

The Guardian - UK

What was the 'first American novel'? On this Independence Day, a look at what it started

Critics have long debated which books qualify as a ‘Great American Novel

The Independent UK

Single And Proud: S. Korean YouTuber's Viral Embrace Of Solo Life

South Korea has declared its super-low birthrate a "national emergency" and poured billions into encouraging citizens to marry and reproduce, but one YouTuber has found happiness and success promoting the opposite ideal.

International Business Times

Who plays who in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder: from Emma Myers to Zain Iqbal

The TV adaptation is finally about to land on screens

Evening Standard

The Road to the Country: novelist Chigozie Obioma on Nigeria’s brutal civil war, love and redemption

Chigozie Obioma is the Nigerian author of the novels The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for their unique, folkloric tales of Nigerian life in decades past. Like them, his 2024 novel The Road to the Country is “tinged with fable and…

The Conversation

‘Reading’s in danger’: Frank Cottrell-Boyce on books, kids – and the explosive power of Heidi

He has written hit films like 24 Hour Party People and cooked up the Queen’s Olympic skydive. But now, having been crowned Children’s Laureate, he’s on a mission to show kids that books will change their lives

The Guardian - UK

‘The power of fiction’: San Francisco store sends LGBTQ+ books to states that ban them

Since launching, Fabulosa Books’ Books Not Bans program has sent more than 700 books to states across the US

The Guardian - US

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Author Alexander McCall Smith knighted by King Charles at Holyrood

Author Sir Alexander McCall Smith has said his knighthood is a “wonderful thing” and that his famous fictional detective Mma Precious Ramotswe…

The Guardian - UK

Frank Cottrell-Boyce chosen as new children’s laureate

The children’s author and screenwriter, who takes over from Joseph Coelho, pledged to address ‘invisible privilege and inequality’

The Guardian - UK

Book festivals previously sponsored by Baillie Gifford seek donations

Partnerships ended over the investment firm’s ties to fossil fuel and Israel, leaving nine book festivals including Hay, Edinburgh and Cheltenham in need of funding

The Guardian - US

Brazil’s unparalleled spate of book bans is a page out of US culture wars

A series of bans on volumes with race, gender and LGBTQ+ themes have proliferated in recent years

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The Guardian - UK

Why Are You Shouting? by James Womack review – tales of the metropolis

This rich fourth collection by James Womack ponders the fraught relationship between place and dweller – and our craving for connection

The Guardian - UK

Bonding by Mariel Franklin review – a comprehensive vision of a devastated society

Populated by tech and pharma hustlers, this bold and highly impressive debut novel has its thumb right over the sore spots of modern life

The Guardian - UK

Ismail Kadare obituary

One of Albania’s greatest writers who explored the ugliness and dignity of this ancient and long-oppressed nation

WhatToWatch

Interview with the Vampire season 3: teaser and everything we know so far

Lestat takes center stage in Interview with the Vampire season 3. Here's everything we know about the new season so far.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Can France hold back the march of Le Pen and the hard-right?

Please let me be.

The Guardian - UK

A life in quotes: Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare, the Albanian writer who explored Balkan history and culture in poetry and fiction, has died aged 88. Here are some of the most memorable quotes from interviews he gave throughout his life

Marie Claire

Former Palace Press Secretary Recalls Princess Diana Frantically Calling Him at 5 a.m. the Day Andrew Morton’s Bombshell Biography About Her Came Out, Seemingly Questioning Her Decision to Participate In the Project

“I told her it couldn’t be undone now,” Dickie Arbiter said of the infamous 1992 tell-all.

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