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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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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’

Evening Standard

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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 - 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

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

The Guardian - US

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

The Guardian - UK

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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

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

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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

Salon

Book bans spiked 33% last school year

"Eating away at the foundations of our democracy"

Newsroom.co.nz

This week's bestselling books

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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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 Guardian - AU

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 - UK

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

The Independent UK

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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