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Digested week: Taking it in turns, we’ve taught Mum how to WhatsApp

This Christmas week, a sobering realisation, realistic resolutions and the Gammons’ imperial dreams

The Guardian - UK

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A determined rodent’s search for nuts, a guide to Terry Pratchett’s witches and moving stories by adoptee authors

The Guardian - UK

Francis Spufford: ‘It was the sorrow of my life at age 10 that there wasn’t one more Narnia book to read’

The author on learning to read with JRR Tolkien, being in awe of Patricia Lockwood and the comforts of Katherine Addison

The Guardian - UK

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Author Calls Kate Middleton 'Strong-Willed' Despite 'Innocuous' Public Image

Royal author Valentine Low says the Princess of Wales is "prepared to fight for what she wants and what she thinks is right".

International Business Times UK

Earthly Delights by Jonathan Jones review – Renaissance mania

The Guardian’s art critic casts a meticulous and joyful eye over western art’s big bang

The Guardian - UK

Albums, tours and Oscar nominations: The Scottish band who have done it all

BEN Please and Beth Porter have just about done it all as musicians. They’ve released 13 studio albums, been on tour and performed

The National (Scotland)

Thatcher ‘utterly shattered’ by MI5 revelations in Spycatcher, files reveal

National Archives papers show prime minister tried in vain to avoid inquiry over Peter Wright’s memoirs

The Guardian - UK

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Behind Margaret Thatcher’s losing battle to stop Spycatcher publication

‘I am utterly shattered by the revelations in the book. The consequences of publication would be enormous,’ the then PM wrote in a handwritten note

The Independent UK

The tricky job of curating the best books of the year

Book editors need the perfect combination of instinct and information

The Hindu

Need A New Year's Resolution For 2024? Try Taking A Page Out Of Stephen King's Book

If you're looking for New Year's resolution ideas, give this one from Stephen King a whirl.

Cinemablend

The ultimate summer reading list: 15 novels about love, lust and sex to devour

From classic romance to steamy romps to lust and power, your beach reads are sorted courtesy of Guardian Australia’s staff and critics

The Guardian - AU

I used the KonMari method to declutter my house — and it changed everything

What is the KonMari method, how does it work and is it genuinely useful? We put it to the test to find out

Tom’s Guide

Luda by Grant Morrison review – dark arts and drag acts

A drag queen’s hallucinatory journey through a hyperreal version of Glasgow is extremely arch – and a lot of fun

The Guardian - UK

In Zimbabwe, a small publisher that helped launch big voices shuts down

In 25 years, the couple-run Harare-based Weaver Press published hundreds of Zimbabwean fiction and nonfiction titles.

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The Guardian - UK

My Friends by Hisham Matar review – the pain of exile

This delicate novel explores the bonds between three Libyan men living in London, far away from their homeland

The Guardian - UK

‘Historical reparation’: new bookshops in Europe give voice to female authors

Greta Livraria in Lisbon and Rare Birds in Edinburgh are among the new stores dedicated to women’s writing

Inverse

Medusa? 'Percy Jackson' Changes the Iconic Character in One Controversial Way

The Disney+ adaptation of Rick Riordan's beloved book series just rewrote a major Greek myth.

The Guardian - AU

Helen Garner, Diana Reid, Nam Le and others: Australian books to look forward to in 2024

Among next year’s highlights are debut fiction from Bri Lee, nonfiction from Peter Goldsworthy and a new novel from 2023 Miles Franklin winner Shankari Chandran

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The Guardian - US

‘History is not what happened’: Howell Raines on the civil war and memory

In his new book, Silent Cavalry, the former New York Times editor tells of loyalties long suppressed in his native Alabama

Woman & Home

King Charles is closer to Kate Middleton than son Prince William, claims insider

King Charles reportedly has a closer relationship with his daughter-in-law Catherine than Prince William

Woman & Home

The royal family feud will need 'more than one holiday celebration' to mend bridges, claims expert

The Conversation

Seamus Heaney: ten years after his death, the generosity and warmth of his rich poetic voice endures

The English war poet Wilfred Owen once wrote, “Celebrity is the last infirmity I desire.” Killed in France at the age of 25, unpublished and unknown, “celebrity” for Owen was a posthumous phenomenon. By contrast, celebrity status for the Irish poet Seamus Heaney – “Famous Seamus” – came early in…

The Guardian - UK

Normal Women by Ainslie Hogarth review – mother’s ruin

In this darkly satirical novel about 21st-century motherhood and women’s labour, the protagonist seeks liberation at a brothel-cum-yoga studio

Wallpaper

Dal Chodha’s new book is an ode to 1970s fashion bible ‘Cheap Chic’

Part fan letter, part cultural commentary, Dal Chodha’s ‘You gotta keep your head straight about clothes’ (Tenderbooks) is a unique testament to fostering a personal sense of style

International Business Times

Harry Potter Conjurer JK Rowling's Net Worth: Stuff Of Magical Realism Lore

J.K. Rowling, the British author who conjured up the hugely popular Harry Potter franchise, has made a billion-dollar fortune from seven novels translated into 80 languages, which sold 500 million copies, and eight blockbuster films made out of it.

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