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Poetry festival’s no holds barred approach is paying off

CREATED in the middle of the Covid pandemic, Scotland’s newest poetry festival was launched in a spirit of defiance.

The National (Scotland)

Samantha Harvey: ‘I like Alien as much as anybody else. But I see this novel as space pastoral’

The novelist who’s been likened to Virginia Woolf on her new book set on the International Space Station, how insomnia has changed the way she thinks – and her fascination with time and faith

The Guardian - UK

Bayard Rustin review: fine portrait of a giant of protest and politics

Michael G Long edits essays from 23 authors on the great civil rights advocate, newly in the spotlight thanks to the Obamas

The Guardian - US

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Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke review – an upper-class monster

A timely reissue for this gem from the archives, in which an ex-public schoolboy makes a gruesome fall from grace

The Guardian - UK

Hunt on for book containing Wilkie Collins’s criticism of friend Dickens

Collins’s notes on his collaborator’s ‘weakest book’ and ‘astonishingly bad’ work were sold at auction in 1890

The Guardian - UK

How common is plagiarism in the publishing industry?

The shadow chancellor’s new book has come under scrutiny for lifting passages of text from other sources without acknowledgment. Academic writers explore how this can happen

The Guardian - UK

Rangoli, kite flying, book release and much more to mark beginning of ‘Karnataka Sambhrama’

Drawing rangolis and flying kites in the Kannada flag colours of yellow and red, lighting ‘Kannada Jyothi’, releasing books, and organising various competitions will be part of the State government’s yearlong programmes that will commence on November 1, 2023, to mark the golden jubilee celebrations of the renaming the Mysuru…

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Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher: an incoherent mess of references that fails to honour Edgar Allan Poe

This article contains spoilers

The Conversation

The List by Yomi Adegoke audiobook review – a very public scandal

Sheila Atim and Arinzé Kene narrate this powerful tale about a couple torn apart by allegations of sexual assault circulated on social media

The Guardian - UK

Sarah Bernstein Breaks the Rules in Study for Obedience

The unnerving novel that earned two major prize nominations rattles expectations of how stories are often told

The Walrus

Nadine Dorries teases meaning behind title of book on Boris Johnson’s downfall

It will be published on November 9.

The Independent UK

British Library celebrates the surging popularity of fantasy fiction

Authors’ sketches, early editions and movie props all feature in a new exhibition exploring the long history of the genre

The Guardian - UK

Richard Armitage: ‘I used to stand on the Lord of the Rings to reach the top shelf in my wardrobe’

The actor and author on his love of fantasy fiction, the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, and why he doesn’t want a second bite of Proust

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October

Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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Jilly Cooper, 86, says she’s ‘forgotten’ how to write sex scenes

Novelist is known for her steamy output

The Independent UK

Sam Asghari reacts to Britney Spears calling him ‘a gift from God’ in her memoir

Spears’ memoir hit stores on Tuesday 24 October

The Independent UK

Stephen King praises new JK Rowling book despite past row over trans views

King praised ‘The Running Grave’, the latest novel in Rowling’s Cormoran Strike detective series

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A Bengali novel on Thoothukudi fishermen and Thanjavur devadasis

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Rachel Reeves ‘holds hands up’ on book mistakes amid allegations of plagiarism

The shadow chancellor admitted some sentences in her book were ‘not properly referenced in the bibliography’.

Evening Standard

The Let It Go journal generated over £100,000 in TikTok sales in just three months

Here’s why users are raving about the Let It Go journal

The Conversation

Five works of Welsh gothic literature you should read this Halloween

Wales has sought to rediscover its identity and autonomy since the devolution referendum of 1997. Authors and publishers have embraced the gothic genre as a means of exploring Welsh language, culture and heritage – reflecting on the anxieties Welsh society has experienced since becoming a devolved nation.

Newsroom.co.nz

This week's bestselling books

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

The Guardian - AU

Green Dot by Madeleine Gray review – a sassy love story with a bleak worldview

Debut novel is carried by the self-aware snark of the besotted protagonist – an endearingly messy twentysomething ensnared by insecurities

The Independent UK

South Korean scholar acquitted of defaming sexual slavery victims during Japan colonial rule

South Korea’s top court has cleared a scholar of charges that she defamed Korean sexual slavery victims during the Japanese colonial rule in her contentious book published in 2013

The Conversation

To better understand addiction, students in this course take a close look at liquor in literature

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

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