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In Japan, book criticising trans ‘craze’ sparks rare culture-war skirmish

Backlash against publishers of controversial book highlights blurring of national borders in the social media age.

Al Jazeera

Maureen Roffey obituary

Other lives: Children’s book illustrator who also produced work for magazines and the fashion designer Mary Quant

The Guardian - UK

Russia’s book police: Anti-gay law opens new chapter as censors target literature

A new “council of experts” set up in Russia is leveraging a decade-old law against gay “propaganda” to censure books. The move marks a new stage in the Kremlin’s control of information by targeting a broad array of literature, a cultural domain that has long enjoyed a special latitude in…

France 24

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More than a quarter of readers of YA are over the age of 28 research shows

Report commissioned by HarperCollins shows that uptake in YA fiction in older readers is due to behavioural changes described as ‘emerging adulthood’ or delaying ‘adult’ life

The Guardian - UK

Swearing, snogging and spying: Cherub’s cool teenage secret agents hit 20

Robert Muchamore’s series of novels about young undercover intelligence operatives with troubled lives shook up the sanitised world of early noughties YA literature

The Guardian - UK

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new chapter books

Lauren Child brings a light touch to big issues, Elle McNicoll explores autism – and a secret society is at work in Paris’s sewers

The Guardian - UK

TEST YOURSELF: Double agent drama

New spy drama The Sympathizer is worth watching

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Kristi Noem’s story of killing her dog points to class two misdemeanor

South Dakota governor’s account of family dog Cricket killing neighbor’s chickens may be an offence, according to state law

The Guardian - US

Proof that teaching’s going down the pan

Brief letters: Teacher troubles | Global Britain | Bald all over | Life-changing app | Books for free

The Guardian - UK

Turtles All the Way Down review – Isabela Merced leads winning yet uneven YA film

The Max adaptation of John Green’s 2017 novel ably handles the interior struggles of OCD, if not the threads of its plot

The Guardian - US

CJ Sansom obituary

Lawyer turned novelist who enjoyed huge success with his bestselling Shardlake historical mysteries

The Guardian - UK

CJ Sansom, author of the Shardlake novels, dies aged 71

The creator of the highly successful crime series, set in Tudor England, was a private person who ‘preferred to be known through his novels’

The Guardian - UK

Enlightenment by Sarah Perry – a tale of cosmic beauty on the Essex marshes

The Essex Serpent author’s fourth novel, about a newspaper columnist who lives a double life, mixes themes of faith and physics to powerful effect

The Guardian - UK

A new start after 60: after a decade of rejections, I got my first novel published. Now I’ve got my dream, I won’t stop!

After a successful career as a talent agent – representing Michael Parkinson, Ulrika Jonsson and Adam Ant – Melanie Cantor became disillusioned with TV. So she took up writing – and refused to give up on her passion.

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Met police to pay ‘five-figure sum’ to French publisher arrested under anti-terror laws

Ernest Moret was held en route to a book fair amid fears police are using counter-terrorism powers to target activists

Newslaundry

The Cooking of Books: Ram Guha’s love letter to the peculiarity of editors

In the preface of his book The Cooking of Books, the story of his relationship with his reticent editor Rukun Advani, Ramachandra Guha writes that he presumes readers will interpret it in different ways.

Evening Standard

Shardlake on Disney+ review: Arthur Hughes is magnetic in this Tudor murder mystery

Move over Wolf Hall, there’s a new Tudor drama in town

The Guardian - US

Kristi Noem defends killing dog: ‘Cricket had shown aggressive behavior’

South Dakota governor says she ‘understands why some people are upset’ about story of shooting family puppy but points to state law

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A page-turner: how to get your reading groove back

Letters: Readers share their tips on discovering new authors and reading more widely

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Shutting the door on free movement of young people is a mistake

Letters: Axel Scheffler, the illustrator of The Gruffalo, on the government’s rejection of a youth mobility scheme with the EU. Plus a letter from Ray Kirtley

The Guardian - UK

The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing review – an Eden project of her own

While a cast of literary heavyweights grace Laing’s account of her garden restoration, the real joys lie in her detailed description of the pruning and the planting and the soothing effect on her state of mind

The Hindu

First true copy of Ravi Varma’s Indulekha to be unveiled on Monday

Unveiling of Raja Ravi Varma's Indulekha painting copy at Kilimanoor Palace on his 176th birth anniversary.

The Guardian - UK

England Is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee review – a searing indictment of factionalism

The lives of two east London teenagers become fatally entwined in an assured debut novel addressing themes of masculinity and marginalisation

The Guardian - UK

It’s hard being black in France, says Omar Sy after Aya Nakamura racism row

Star of Lupin says notions of justice, equality and fraternity have been shaken along with his optimism

The Guardian - UK

‘Nervous of its own boldness’: the (almost) radical rebirth of King’s Cross

The two-decade transformation of the industrial site north of King’s Cross station in London, once notorious, now a pleasant enclave of offices, homes, shops, bars and boulevards, is essentially complete. It’s a huge success – and yet is there something missing?

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