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The best fiction of 2023

From Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting to Zadie Smith’s The Fraud, and a companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four – this year’s fiction highlights

The Guardian - UK

I found the best Christmas present for people who love the Great Outdoors

Weird Walk is a bizarrely wonderful compendium of mystical places to visit on foot in the UK

Omid Scobie finally admits early Endgame manuscript named ‘Royal racists’

The author had previously denied ever writing the two names in the English manuscript, while the Dutch publisher initially chalked the blunder down to a ‘translation error’

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Endgame author Omid Scobie appears to admit naming race row royals in early draft

Royal reporter says Dutch publisher was sent 'early and uncleared text'

Evening Standard

Danger Sound Klaxon! wins oddest book title award

Matthew Jordan’s horn history beat Dry Humping: A Guide to Dating, Relating, and Hooking Up Without the Booze and I Fart in your General Direction: Flatulence in Popular Culture

The Guardian - UK

2023 in books: Protests, bannings and the rise of AI helped shape the story of publishing

The publishing world made plenty of news in 2023, but not only because of the books themselves

The Independent UK

Bhutanese author Tshering Tashi conferred with Sahitya Akademi’s Premchand Fellowship

Noted Bhutanese author Tshering Tashi was conferred with the Sahitya Akademi's 'Premchand Fellowship' on December 8. He is known for his works in creative non-fiction and is co-director of Bhutan Echoes Literary Festival. He has written numerous books on Bhutan and contributes articles to newspapers and journals. After the conferment,…

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Night People is a "transgressive and terrifying" neon noir thriller

The comic is based on a novel by David Lynch collaborator Barry Gifford

GamesRadar

‘The drugs were good, the music was good, the sex was good’ – cult French writer Ann Scott on her techno years

She ran away to punk London at 12, becoming a drummer, a skinhead and a model. Then she wrote Superstars, about the hard-raving 90s. Now the writer is back – with a novel about a Marvel movie composer relocating to the coast

The Guardian - UK

Isabel Allende, Yung Pueblo in The Latin Times List of Top 5 Latin Books of 2023

From memoirs to novels, these are the Latin Times' top 5 Latin Books of 2023

Latin Times

Nile Rodgers, Justin Hawkins, Katie Melua and more advice on how to deal with life on the road

Bonafide been-there-done-that stars plus many 'proper' experts deliver top advice on how to keep your head while touring

MusicRadar

Five of the best translated novels of 2023

Javier Marías’s final book, a love affair in 1980s East Berlin, reincarnation in France, a story of obsession and a South Korean romp

The Guardian - UK

Top writers honoured as Scottish National Book Award winners announced

The winners of Scotland’s National Book Awards have been announced.

The National (Scotland)

Trump marks Pearl Harbor anniversary years after claim he didn’t know what it was

In 2020, a book by two Washington Post reporters claimed that Trump had limited knowledge of Pearl Harbor attack

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Smothered review – this fresh twist on a romcom is utterly lovely

Don’t expect histrionics from this comedy about the practicalities of love. It’s a sweet, deeply nice take on romance that is extremely watchable

Marie Claire

Kaia Gerber's "Off-Duty Librarian" Look Is a Win for All Nerds Everywhere

Bookworms, this one is for you.

Evening Standard

Best dystopian novels of all time that are must-read classics

Stranger than fiction no longer applies

The Guardian - UK

Benjamin Zephaniah obituary

Poet, performer and actor hailed as one of Britain’s most outspoken and original literary voices

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'Ohmigod': George R.R. Martin Just Commented On House Of The Dragon’s Season 2 Episodes (And Winds Of Winter) And Now I’m Even More Pumped

Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin gives an update on the long-anticipated Winds of Winter and Season 2 of House of the Dragon.

The Conversation

The Peasants: this oil-painted film of Władysław Reymont's novel is a visual masterpiece

The Peasants tells the story of a beautiful young Polish girl, Jagna (Kamila Urzędowska), who was sold into a marriage to the richest man in the village – an older widower named Boryna (Mirosław Baka). The price is high – six acres of Boryna’s best land – but then, as…

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Miss Austen: US release date, full season guide: plot, cast, interview and more

Miss Austen is a lavish period drama starring Keeley Hawes and Rose Leslie.

The Independent UK

Prince Harry ‘refused’ invite to Duke of Westminster’s wedding amid ‘snub’ claims

It was earlier claimed Hugh Grosvenor, one of Harry’s oldest friends, had ‘excluded’ him from the wedding

The Conversation

How I identified a probable pen name of Louisa May Alcott

Before Louisa May Alcott published the bestselling “Little Women” in two volumes – the first in 1868, the second in 1869 – she wrote melodramatic thrillers, selling these short stories to magazines to bring in cash for her impoverished family.

The Guardian - UK

Benjamin Zephaniah, British poet and campaigner, dies aged 65

The dub poet and author of collections including Talking Turkeys has died of a brain tumour

The Guardian - UK

The best memoirs and biographies of 2023

The rise of Madonna, Barbra Streisand in her own words, plus the stormy relationship of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are among this year’s highlights

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