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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

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Millie Bobby Brown has come under fire over her ghostwriter. We need to relax about this

Some people are cross because the Stranger Things star has one, some are cross because the ghost’s name’s not on the front...

Evening Standard

Novels from Canada, Ireland, US, UK finalists for Booker Prize for fiction

Shortlist announced for annual Booker literature prize includes two first-time novels among the six finalists.

Al Jazeera

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A rare Truman Capote story from the early 1950s is being published for the first time

This week, a Truman Capote story from early in his career will be published for the first time

The Independent UK

Booker Prize 2023: Six shortlisted authors tackle immigration, identity and the climate crisis

All six authors are shortlisted for the prestigious award for the first time, with their work exploring themes of sisterhood, immigration, conflict and change

The Independent UK

Half of authors on newly revealed Booker Prize 2023 shortlist called Paul

The judges chose the final six novels from a longlist of 13 titles.

Evening Standard

Just one British writer makes the Booker prize shortlist

Chetna Maroo’s ‘mesmerising’ Western Lane has been chosen for inclusion on a male-dominated list

The Guardian - UK

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‘Portraits of what it means to be alive today’: how we chose the 2023 Booker prize shortlist

From Sarah Bernstein’s absurdist novel to Jonathan Escoffery’s astonishingly assured debut, this year’s novels offered a full range of lived experience and made for an exciting shortlist

The Guardian - UK

Book bans spiked 33% last school year

"Eating away at the foundations of our democracy"

Salon

This week's bestselling books

The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias

Newsroom.co.nz

New guidelines urge UK libraries not to avoid controversial books and ideas

‘In [a] polarised world, it is important our sector is clear in its opposition to censorship’ says the Cilip report, published as services increasingly asked to remove books

The Guardian - UK

How BookTok trends are influencing what you read – whether you use TikTok or not

If you’ve been in a bookshop recently, you may have seen references to BookTok – whether it’s stickers on books or whole tables dedicated to “BookTok favourites”.

The Conversation

Body Friend by Katherine Brabon review – poetic reflections on living with chronic pain

Three women inhabit the space between illness and recovery in a novel that moves with a syrupy slowness, refusing our thirst for plot

The Guardian - AU

Heavy metal and macho writers: how Germany’s #MeToo moment is finally taking off

Until now, women here have struggled to be heard on harassment and abuse. But two controversies are changing that, says Guardian columnist Fatma Aydemir

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Coleen Rooney announces new autobiography that promises ‘inside story’ into Wagatha Christie trial

‘My Account’ will give readers insight into Rooney’s legal battle with Rebekah Vardy and a ‘full account’ of her life to date

Evening Standard

Cartoonists defy government with drawing book for refugee children

The Home Office painted over a Mickey Mouse mural earlier this year

The Walrus

In Daughter, Claudia Dey Explores the Ugly Side of the Great Literary Male

The wry, furious novel gives the overlooked daughter of an egotistical writer a voice

The Guardian - UK

Ghost writing, the voice of Beep the Meep and shrinkflation – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

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The Guardian - UK

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff review – a survival story

A servant girl is deep in the woods and on the run, in this exhilarating fable set in an embryonic America

The Independent UK

Grief author accused of killing husband with fentanyl cocktail claims damning letter is merely a book excerpt

Kouri Richins, 33, is accused of slipping a lethal dose of fentanyl into a Moscow Mule her husband drank

The Guardian - US

Key takeaways from Michael Wolff’s book on Murdoch, Fox and US politics

Here’s what we’ve learned so far from the eagerly awaited book The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty

The Independent UK

Amir Khan was never dull – but will he ever be truly loved?

Khan’s autobiography, Fight For Your Life, covers the boxer’s rapid rise to fame during the Athens Olympics, his world-title wins, and numerous personal controversies

The Guardian - UK

The Variations by Patrick Langley review – hearing the voices of the dead

There’s a Nabokovian intrigue to this thrilling tale of a composer and her grandson with the same mysterious gift

The National (Scotland)

What makes Scottish architecture Scottish? New book aims to answer question

AN architectural historian has released a new book tracing the history of Scottish architecture ...

The Independent UK

Cassidy Hutchinson claims Rudy Giuliani sexually assaulted her on Jan 6 in new book

‘I fight against the tension in my muscles and recoil from Rudy’s grip … filled with rage, I storm through the tent, on yet another quest for Mark,’ 27-year-old writes

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