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James Middleton's cosy coffee corner with Emma Bridgewater mug and rustic wooden table have got us excited for slow autumnal mornings

James Middleton shared a glimpse at his coffee table set-up and the 'rustic' and 'homely' style is something we'll be copying this season

Woman & Home

Wuthering Heights: Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi's casting has not pleased fans

Fans of Emily Bronte’s classic novel have asked whether the filmmakers have even read the book

Evening Standard

Lost in Austin: Climate Change, Displacement, and Race in the Texas Capital

The story of Rainey Street is Austin gentrification in microcosm.

Texas Observer

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Sally Rooney’s new novel, Intermezzo, is her longest and best consideration of ‘idiotic desire and love’ yet

On the level of theme, the Irish writer Sally Rooney is firmly in her wheelhouse in her new novel Intermezzo. We find Peter and Ivan Koubek having just lost their father and trying to forge a life through and past this bereavement by way of intimate relationships.

The Conversation

People Support Menendez Brothers After Erik’s Stepdaughter Says She Hopes Kim Kardashian Will Help

“You never know what someone’s true motive is behind them wanting to speak with my dad.” The post People Support Menendez Brothers After Erik’s Stepdaughter Says She Hopes Kim Kardashian Will Help first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Jacqueline Wilson shares the dark Tracy Beaker plot publishers asked her to cut

Exclusive: Author said she was warned that children might be inspired to experiment with inhalants

The Independent UK

Dorset ‘Stonehenge’ under Thomas Hardy’s home given protected status

Enclosure found under late novelist’s garden is older than Salisbury monument and wins national recognition

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What to know about Banned Books Week

From September 22-28, the American Library Association will hold its annual effort to combat challenges to books

Salon

Jonathan Coe and Kit de Waal among 35 writers of ‘protest zine’ defending threatened Birmingham libraries

Launched by poet Liz Berry and novelist Catherine O’Flynn, pieces for each of the city’s 35 branch libraries speak against a ‘tidal wave of market forces’

The Guardian - UK

Kate Middleton's Brother, James, Says He Received $1 Million Hollywood Deal After Reading at the Prince and Princess of Wales' Wedding

“They even ventured that members of my wider family might like to take part.”

Marie Claire

‘I think Tom Cruise was annoyed with Nicole Kidman that night’: Jonathan Becker on photographing the world’s biggest stars

He has captured Cruise and Kidman partying, the ‘charm’ of Trump, a disgruntled Bowie, and a deathly Mapplethorpe. As the ex New York cabbie releases a book of his extraordinary pictures, he recalls a bygone age when ‘the Kardashians would be laughed off the planet’

The Guardian - UK

The graphic novel adaptation of post-apocalyptic classic The Road is one of the most frightening and beautiful comics you will read this year

Interview | Artist and writer Manu Larcenet on adapting Cormac McCarthy's famous novel

GamesRadar

Novelist Rebecca Watson: ‘What are siblings: twisted reflections of ourselves? Allies? Enemies?’

The author of I Will Crash, about an estranged brother and sister, looks at other books on difficult sibling relationships, from authors including Sally Rooney and Julia Armfield

The Guardian - UK

112 Years Later, the Most Misunderstood Sci-Fi Classic Is Getting a Huge Upgrade

'John Carter of Mars' is about to become a new radio series, and the cast is perfect.

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Sally Rooney reveals why she hasn’t accepted any offers to adapt third novel into TV series

‘I felt that world was not where I belonged’ said the bestselling author

The Guardian - US

US public schools banned 10,000 books in most recent academic year

Survey by PEN America suggests bans nearly tripled nationwide from previous year’s figure

The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: Llyfr Geirfa fy Nhad / My Father’s Vocabulary Book by Gwyneth Lewis

A daughter remembers her father through his dogged work to learn the Welsh language, and his leaving of it

The Independent UK

William Boyd: ‘Ulysses is the novel to end all novels’

The ‘Gabriel’s Moon’ author on which of his 18 novels means the most to him, and the book he once loved obsessively

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‘Moneypenny with more power’: book celebrates UK’s forgotten female spies

Dr Claire Hubbard-Hall reveals contribution of Kathleen Pettigrew, most senior secretary in MI6 and inspiration for Ian Fleming, and others in new title

Evening Standard

Wolfson History Prize shortlist unveiled including books on NHS and Winnie and Nelson Mandela's marriage

The winner of the £50,000 first prize will be announced on 2 December at a ceremony in London

The Guardian - UK

The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle review – his best yet

In the third outing for Paula Spencer – mother, alcoholic, domestic abuse survivor – Doyle captures her strength and vulnerability in prose that radiates energy and life

Reason

Prof. Paul Robinson & Jeffrey Seaman Guest-Blogging About "Confronting Failures of Justice: Getting Away with Murder and Rape"

I'm delighted to report that Prof. Paul Robinson (Penn) and Jeffrey Seaman will be guest-blogging this coming week about their new book. Here's the publisher's summary: Most murderers and rapists escape justice, a horrifying fact that has gone largely unexamined until now. This groundbreaking book tours nearly the entire criminal…

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Apples Never Fall fans praise BBC drama as 'better than The Perfect Couple'

Comparisons have been drawn between BBC's Apples Never Fall and Netflix's The Perfect Couple

The Guardian - UK

A Kid from Marlboro Road by Edward Burns review – the most Irish-American novel of the year

A 12-year-old New Yorker records his childhood memories and family anecdotes in the film-maker’s vivid and tender first book

The Guardian - UK

All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles review – poignant meditation on masculinity and alienation

A working-class writer rails against the corporate world and small-mindedness in a striking debut novel written as a monologue

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