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Sheep’s Clothing by Celia Dale review – deft tale of female scammers

First published in 1988, the late crime writer’s final novel highlights her sly humour and vivid characterisation

The Guardian - UK

Jobs for the Girls by Ysenda Maxtone Graham review – how the other half worked

Accounts of women’s working lives from the 1950s onwards highlight the upper classes and the eccentric. It’s wonderfully mad, but also irritating

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li review – dialogues with death

Sudden losses are everywhere in the Chinese American writer’s controlled, contemplative stories

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Let’s hear it for England’s royals – and centuries of incompetence, criminality and failure

We’re often told the current crop lack the dignity that monarchy deserves. But what about the losers, adulterers and delusional brutes who came before?

The Guardian - UK

The Times review: how the newspaper of record survived – and thrived

Adam Nagourney’s rigorous reporting shines, though he misses chances to illuminate less well-known parts of the story

The Guardian - US

The big picture: a moment of intimacy for women in prison

Jane Evelyn Atwood spent a decade photographing the life of female inmates, from childbirth to conjugal visits

The Guardian - UK

Inside the secretive Tory 1922 committee which ‘slays leaders'

IT’S a secretive body of Tory backbenchers which hit the headlines as MPs plotted the downfall of Boris Johnson.

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On gripping narratives

Each is a powerful experience and we need to be explicitly weaned away every time from this world of suspended disbelief

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Cassidy Hutchinson calls Trump ‘dangerous’ and ‘un-American’ and describes fleeing DC after testimony

Former Trump administration aide has emerged as whistleblower

The Independent UK

Readable in one sitting — and other issues

Yet, it is not fashionable, nor is it popular with publishers who think it falls into a chasm between the short story and the novel. Mathematical definitions are not of much help – a novella could be anywhere from ten thousand to forty thousand words. Edgar Allan Poe caught the…

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‘Reading is resistance’: students and parents take on DeSantis’s book bans

Florida governor’s constant attacks on the education system have led to an increasing backlash from a wide range of people

The Guardian - US

On my radar: Rebecca F Kuang’s cultural highlights

The bestselling author of Yellowface on prepping for Christopher Nolan films, a touring Mozart biopic and the swaggering young stars of Italian rock

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Susie Dent: ‘English has always evolved by mistake’

The queen of Countdown’s dictionary corner on the power of positive language and finding joy in ‘mubble fubbles’

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The Glutton by AK Blakemore review – the man who ate everything

Based on the real-life story of a peasant in revolutionary France, this hallucinatory tale is set to be one of the most remarkable novels of the year

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Jailhouse letter adds wrinkle in case of mom accused of killing husband, then writing kids' book

Jailhouse writings by a Utah mother accused of killing her husband, then writing a children’s book about death, have led prosecutors to accuse her of trying to tamper with witnesses

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Lost Letter By Dr. Samuel Johnson Fetches Four Times Estimated Value

Rediscovered after 250 years, the rare letter surprises at auction, selling for £30,000

The Guardian - US

New York Times writer draws ire for blaming Biden’s economy for $78 airport meal

After David Brooks posted a photo of his burger and whiskey, many pointed out the cost of the drink probably pushed up the tab

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‘Eating away at democracy’: book bans in US public schools rise by a third in a year

According to a new study by Pen America, there were 3,362 instances of book bans in school classrooms and libraries – with more than 40% of all cases occurring in Florida

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Cartoonists create colouring book for refugees in rebuff to UK government

Welcome to Britain produced after minister ordered mural at Kent migrant centre to be painted over

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Finishing every Booker Prize novel is ‘impossible’ says judge Robert Webb

‘You finish as many as you can and the other ones you put to one side after a respectable but undisclosed fraction has been read’

The Guardian - UK

Tiger Work by Ben Okri audiobook review – dispatches on a post-apocalyptic world

Ashley Zhangazha narrates a collection of essays, poems and short stories that rail against human inaction in the face of environmental catastrophe

The Guardian - UK

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

A joyful picture-book account of family life; a magical fantasy series begins; an addictive epistolary friendship; fast-paced feminist YA; and more

The Guardian - US

Unknown Truman Capote story that was penciled in notebook published for first time

Exclusive: newly discovered story by Breakfast at Tiffany’s author is about an American living in Sicily

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Jo Nesbø: ‘Tom Sawyer was my first murder mystery’

The Norwegian crime writer talks about his early influences, changing tastes and the age-limit for enjoying Hemingway

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The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith review – a riveting race against time

JK Rowling’s will they/won’t they detective duo return in a hefty but immersive tale of an attempted rescue from a cult

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