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Dune star Rebecca Ferguson's hit sci-fi show has received high praise from a very important person, calling season 2 "one of the best things I've ever seen"

A new season 2 release date has also been teased...

Total Film · May 1, 2024

‘Getting a book idea feels like a buzz in the head’: Paul Auster – a life in quotes

The author of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan and 4 3 2 1 has died at the age of 77. Here are some of the most memorable quotes from interviews he gave throughout his life

The Guardian - UK · May 1, 2024

The Buddha of Suburbia review – playful spin through Hanif Kureishi’s novel

Emma Rice directs an ebullient RSC version of the landmark 1990 story of sex, music, class and racism

The Guardian - UK · May 1, 2024

US Novelist Paul Auster Dies Aged 77

Paul Auster, the prolific American novelist whose works included "The New York Trilogy," has died of complications from lung cancer, a friend of the novelist told AFP. He was 77.

International Business Times · May 1, 2024

Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77

The writer of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan and 4 3 2 1 – known for his stylised postmodernist fiction – has died from complications of lung cancer

The Guardian - UK · May 1, 2024

In Japan, book criticising trans ‘craze’ sparks rare culture-war skirmish

Backlash against publishers of controversial book highlights blurring of national borders in the social media age.

Al Jazeera · May 1, 2024

Maureen Roffey obituary

Other lives: Children’s book illustrator who also produced work for magazines and the fashion designer Mary Quant

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2024

Russia’s book police: Anti-gay law opens new chapter as censors target literature

A new “council of experts” set up in Russia is leveraging a decade-old law against gay “propaganda” to censure books. The move marks a new stage in the Kremlin’s control of information by targeting a broad array of literature, a cultural domain that has long enjoyed a special latitude in…

France 24 · Apr 30, 2024

More than a quarter of readers of YA are over the age of 28 research shows

Report commissioned by HarperCollins shows that uptake in YA fiction in older readers is due to behavioural changes described as ‘emerging adulthood’ or delaying ‘adult’ life

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2024

Swearing, snogging and spying: Cherub’s cool teenage secret agents hit 20

Robert Muchamore’s series of novels about young undercover intelligence operatives with troubled lives shook up the sanitised world of early noughties YA literature

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2024