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Poet Safiya Sinclair: ‘As a girl I felt small within Rastafari’

The Jamaican poet on her new memoir chronicling life with an authoritarian father, reconfiguring the postcard image of her homeland and her love of Marvel comic books

The Guardian - UK

The characters in my book are flawed, broken people: Actress-producer Koel Purie Rinchet on writing 'Clearly Invisible in Paris'

Actress-producer Koel Purie Rinchet has now turned an author with her debut novel 'Clearly Invisible in Paris', which was published recently. Set in modern day Paris, 'Clearly Invisible in Paris' follows four women as they navigate love, life and relationships. In an interview, Koel Purie Rinchet tells us more about…

The Times of India

David Walliams says he was ‘locked in Italian prison cell for seven hours’ during recent trip to Venice

‘Little Britain’ star told onlookers at Henley Literary Festival 2023 that he was recently apprehended at an airport in Venice

The Independent UK

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On my radar: Orhan Pamuk’s cultural highlights

The Nobel prize-winning novelist on the wonders of the Louvre, a powerful film adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s memoir and being mesmerised by Tacita Dean

The Guardian - UK

Amazon's Most Ambitious New Sci-Fi Movie Had One Major Hurdle

With 'Foe,' writer-director Garth Davis turns a cerebral sci-fi thriller into an environmental fable.

Inverse

Historic Torah Scroll Displayed At Riyadh Book Fair In Israel-Saudi Détente

Rare 16th-century manuscript highlights growing ecumenicalism between former adversaries.

Zenger

Pratchett power: from lost stories to new adaptations, how the late Discworld author lives on

It’s 40 years since The Colour of Magic hit the shelves. As newly unearthed short stories are published, fans and friends celebrate the late author’s enduring legacy

The Guardian - UK

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Orwellian nightmares: What I learned about today’s rage culture from rewriting 1984

‘Orwellian’ is an accusation increasingly levelled by both right and left but what does it mean, asks author Sandra Newman, who has reimagined Orwell’s novel – and why does Orwell’s dystopian classic speak so powerfully to our current moment?

The Guardian - UK

Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford review – fabulously rich noir

The Golden Hill author turns his hand to the detective genre in a multilayered reimagining of 1920s America

The Guardian - UK

Collision of Power review: Marty Baron on Bezos, the Post and Trump

The great editor has tales to tell and a message to deliver: the US press must be ready to hold the line once again

The Guardian - US

Katie Piper’s Infinite Digital Book Raises Awareness For Children’s Digital Connectivity

Katie Piper authors 'infinite' digital book for children, highlighting the importance of digital connectivity.

Zenger

Against the odds, tiny town bookshop spreads the love

Bricks-and-mortar stores like Nice Stack of Books in the town of Meeniyan, Victoria - population 840 - are helping people re-discover the magic of book shops.

AAP

The unpopularity contest staged at the Conservative party conference

Letters: Readers reflect on the Tories’ performance and decisions made during their party conference

The Guardian - UK

The history of the Yellow Book – the 19th century journal that celebrated women writers

In the middle of the final decade of the 19th century, Britain was the most powerful and richest nation on earth, with the largest empire ever known. The nation might be thought to have had nothing of which to be frightened, yet frightened it was.

The Conversation

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The Guardian - UK

‘An extraordinary ethereal force’: readers react to the work of Jon Fosse

The author finally achieved global recognition with his Nobel prize in literature, but he has been winning fans with his mesmerising prose and elemental plays for years

The Guardian - UK

‘Libraries are the heart of community’: children’s laureate Joseph Coelho on inspiring the next generation of writers

Since his first anthology in 2014, Coelho has become a prolific author for children and YA readers – and it all started, he says, in a vital community space

The Guardian - AU

Charlotte Wood: ‘It was like I had acid poured on my whole life … but in a good way’

As Charlotte Wood was writing her latest book, she got cancer. As did her two sisters. But the acclaimed novelist is determined that her work is not despairing

Radio France Internationale

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy on trial for witness tampering

A Paris court on Friday placed former French president Nicolas Sarkozy under formal investigation for alleged witness tampering and fraud as part of a probe into the funding of his successful 2007 election campaign.

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Evening Standard

Madonna review: This 800-page biography is a turkey — and dry as one too

You wouldn’t have thought it would be possible to write a dull book about such a rich life as Madonna’s, but Mary Gabriel manages it. She also spends 800 pages managing it, which compounds the achievement.

The Independent UK

A Hong Kong man gets 4 months in prison for importing children's books deemed to be seditious

A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to four months in prison after he pleaded guilty to importing children’s books deemed to be “seditious publications.”

The Conversation

20 years after the publication of 'Purple Hibiscus,' a generation of African writers have followed in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's footsteps

Twenty years ago, in October 2003, 26-year-old Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the North American publishing scene with her debut novel,“ Purple Hibiscus.”

Reason

Records of Library Removal Requests, Like Other Library User Records, Are Exempt from State Public Records Law

The case stemmed from user challenges asking that a public library remove Gender Queer: A Memoir, or at least keep children from getting it.

The Times of India

'From the Village to the World': An inspiring story for entrepreneurs

A new book titled 'From the Village to the World' about the inspiring story of an Indian who came from a village in Gujarat and how he built a business of USD 250 million was published recently. It’s not one of the usual rags to riches stories, or one of…

The Guardian - UK

‘A secret no one talked about’: Michael Morpurgo on discovering his real father – and hating Spielberg’s War Horse

As he turns 80, the prolific children’s author takes us on a tour of his Devon village, to talk about family bombshells, the burning of Joan of Arc – and finally getting a film adaptation he likes

Evening Standard

Masters of the Air: incredible first-look images released for Band of Brothers spin-off show

The upcoming Apple TV+ show sees the award-winning team of Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman reunite for another thrilling World War Two drama and this time they’re taking to the skies

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