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Five of the best books about fresh starts

A family escapes from drizzly England to Corfu and later life achievements are celebrated in these refreshing reads on new beginnings

The Guardian - UK

Luke Humphries to donate some of his prize money to Prostate Cancer UK

Paddy Power pledged to donate £1,000 every time a player hits 180 at the Alexandra Palace, with Humphries contributing 73 to a final total of 914.

The Independent UK

Ava Anna Ada by Ali Millar review – at the end of the world

Fraught themes of maternal ambivalence and ecological crisis are explored in this intense apocalypse story

The Guardian - UK

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Were the monks on drugs? How The Book of Kells went fully psychedelic

Spirited to Ireland to save it from the Vikings, this wild illumination of the New Testament, full of gilded curls and coils, is one of the most ecstatic artworks ever – and now it’s gone gloriously immersive

The Guardian - UK

The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli review – a tsar is born

The imagined life story of a shadowy Kremlin insider offers a chilling perspective on Putin’s Russia

The Guardian - UK

Meghan Markle Accused Of Feeding 'Endgame' Book Author Details About 'Racist' Royals

The Dutch version of "Endgame" mistakenly named the royals who allegedly raised concerns about Prince Archie's complexion.

International Business Times UK

The best non-fiction books to read in 2024

From candid memoirs to provocative essay collections, 2024’s forthcoming non-fiction is enticing. Jessie Thompson shares our guide to what you need on your reading pile

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Tamil writer Devibharathi on his Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel

Devibharathi's Neervazhi Padooum, winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2023, is a story of the people of Udayampalayam, their struggles & virtue.

The Hindu

'If we were more Bharat...': EAM on foreign policy towards China after Independence

S. Jaishankar examines India's foreign policy since Independence, using the epic Ramayana as the overarching perspective.

The Hindu

The Traitors season two, review: You’ll be staying faithful to your sofa for the rest of the month

The cloaks, the chaos and Claudia Winkleman are all back for a second season of the BBC’s runaway gameshow hit. Resistance is futile – just cancel all your January plans now

The Independent UK

Trial postponed for man charged with 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie

The New Jersey man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie is allowed to seek material related to Rushdie’s upcoming memoir about the 2022 attack before standing trial

The Independent UK

OPINION - Camila Batmanghelidjh was trying to solve London’s knife crime epidemic, shame on those who brought her down

Camila Batmanghelidjh, who founded the globally renowned, London-based and entirely besmirched — but ultimately exonerated — Kids Company died peacefully on New Year’s Day aged 61. It is my sincere belief that we Londoners will rue the day she suffered what she described to me as her “reputational assassination”, which…

Evening Standard

Trial of Salman Rushdie’s alleged attacker faces potential delay over author’s memoir

Salman Rushdie was stabbed around 12 times at the Chautauqua Institution after a man rushed on stage

The Independent UK

Britons gear up for ‘Sunshine Saturday’ as psychotherapist reveals WHY our brain ‘needs’ a holiday – and how many to take per year

Booking a holiday can alter our brain chemistry for the better

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Salman Rushdie memoir about stabbing could delay accused attacker’s trial

Judge says Hadi Matar, who pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charge after Rushdie was stabbed on stage in 2022, is entitled to see manuscript for trial preparation

The Independent UK

The best fiction books to read in 2024, from David Nicholls to Kiley Reid

Spend your 2024 getting lost in very good novels – there are plenty to choose from. Jessie Thompson shares our guide to the year’s unmissable fiction

The Independent UK

Trial of man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie may be delayed until author's memoir is published

Salman Rushdie’s plans to publish a book about a 2022 attempt on his life may delay the trial of his alleged attacker, which is scheduled to begin next week

The Guardian - UK

Christopher Hood obituary

Other lives: Author of comic novels and plays who later focused on singing for local blues bands and appearing in amateur dramatics

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The Independent UK

The Famous Five haven’t ‘gone woke’ – they’re just not as tedious as they used to be

With its anachronistic fashions, mixed-race lead and synthy score, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Famous Five reboot has been met with the usual moaning by ‘the anti-woke’ brigade. But it also has a zippiness and thrill that was always absent from Enid Blyton’s deeply uncool source material, writes Adam White

Marie Claire

King Charles Is Apparently Closer to Princess Kate Than He Is His Own Son, Prince William

Charles spoke of his “beloved daughter-in-law” during a recent royal tour.

GoodToKnow

Is there another ‘royal’ book on the way? - we share everything we know (and it could bring unheard details of Kate Middleton’s life into the spotlight)

Here's why unheard details of the Princess of Wales' life could soon be told...

The Conversation

Why Taylor Swift belongs on English literature degree courses

When I started my podcast, Studies in Taylor Swift, in the spring of 2021, I felt that I was simultaneously helping to invent, and trying to catch up to, the academic discipline of Taylor Swift studies. Though there wasn’t much published on reading Swift as literature, I had no trouble…

The Conversation

Coca-Cola in Africa: a long history full of unexpected twists and turns

A new book called Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African tells the story of how the world’s most famous carbonated drink conquered the continent. It’s a tale of marketing gumption and high politics and is the product of years of research by critical writing lecturer Sara Byala, who researches histories of…

The Guardian - UK

Richard Rampton obituary

Leading defamation barrister who led the courtroom case against the Holocaust denier David Irving in 2000

The Guardian - UK

New thriller from master of twists and turns Harlan Coben comes to Netflix

A new adaptation of the hugely successful crime writer’s book Fool Me Once comes to Netflix on New Year’s Day

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