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Music, history and courageous journalism: Baillie Gifford prize shortlist announced

Judges praise the final six ‘exquisite and ambitious’ works in contention for the £50,000 award for nonfiction

The Guardian - UK

Shortlist for Baillie Gifford Non-Fiction Prize 2023 unveiled

The winner will be announced during a ceremony on November 16.

The Independent UK

Where are the works on British black urban films?

UCL professor Clive Nwonka says genre should stand with traditions such as the French new wave and British social realism in terms of academic study

The Guardian - UK

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A Bird in Winter by Louise Doughty review – effortless entertainment

The Apple Tree Yard author and staple of TV drama returns with another addictive thriller about a woman on the run

The Guardian - UK

Judy Murray rallies against ‘elitist image’ of tennis during talk at Henley Literary Festival

Murray’s new book is set among the ‘Haves’ and ‘Have-nots’ in the world of tennis

The Independent UK

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin author Louis de Bernières says Nicolas Cage had ‘horrendous’ time during film adaptation

Author was being interviewed onstage by The Independent’s chief books critic Martin Chilton for an event at Henley Literary Festival 2023

The Independent UK

Sweden’s ‘queen of Noir’ Camilla Läckberg accused of using a ghostwriter

Crime novelist has been forced to deny claims that she tricked readers into buying books she didn’t write herself

The Guardian - UK

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Triggered Literature by John Sutherland review – a cautious approach

The academic treads a little too carefully in his wry but passionless history of books deemed harmful to a reader’s state of mind

The Guardian - UK

P.S. Sreedharan Pillai — a Governor in his literary labyrinth

As Goa Governor, P.S. Sreedharan Pillai takes full advantage of his bully pulpit, speaking about, and disseminating his passion for reading and literature. He has authored more than 200 books which traverse an astonishing range of subjects – from history, politics, law to poetry and economy, being possibly the only…

The Hindu

The Pole and Other Stories by JM Coetzee review – lessons in beauty

With his bravura new novella, one of six stories in this collection, the Nobel prize winner proves once again that he is a master of his craft

The Guardian - UK

Marriage is back, it seems, but it’s still OK to say ‘I don’t’

Increasing pressure to marry is political – so if it looks inviting, ask yourself whether what you really want is a big dress

The Guardian - UK

Want to find fulfilment? Here’s what my years as an agony aunt have taught me

Philippa Perry, psychotherapist and writer of the Observer’s hugely popular problem page, shares what she’s learned about our search for contentment

The Guardian - UK

Tales of an icon: Stories, drama, adventures of the great Forth Rail Bridge

I STARE into the darkness through the train window. Glens and Bens may fly by, but I wouldn’t know. Eventually, the morning light reveals a dreich…

The National (Scotland)

‘I just wasn’t being honest’: a true crime author confronts the NT justice system and himself

When journalist Dan Box began looking into a murder case, his goal was to win a Walkley. But a friendship and a tragedy put him at the centre of the story

The Guardian - AU

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Ambai | Feminist without compromise

The Tamil publishing world believes Ambai to be the language’s first (and abiding) feminist writer, constantly challenging social gender normatives and sometimes, rewriting them.

Zenger

Canadian Book Exposes Anti-Semitic Past: ‘None Is Too Many’

New edition of influential book sheds light on Canada's troubling immigration policies during the Holocaust

The Guardian - UK

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 Times of India

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…

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The Independent UK

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 Guardian - UK

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

Inverse

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.

Zenger

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

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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

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