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Apples Never Fall: release date, trailer, cast and everything we know about the drama

Apples Never Fall is a new limited series from the author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers. Here’s everything we know about it.

WhatToWatch · Jan 29, 2024

British Graphic Novelist Delighted To 'Infiltrate' Cartoon Boys' Club

Posy Simmonds is only the fifth woman and the first Briton to win the grand prix at France's prestigious Angouleme comics festival, an honour she is thrilled with -- even if toothache prevented her from collecting it in person.

International Business Times · Jan 29, 2024

Top Draw: Artist Michael McGregor on his new book Room Service and love of hotel stationery

Hotel note paper is not just for scribbling your room service order on, says the LA artist

Evening Standard · Jan 29, 2024

Victoria’s Robinsons Bookshop apologises after owner’s call for more ‘white kids’ on book covers

Susanne Horman’s comments have been ‘taken out of context’ and ‘misrepresented’, business says

The Guardian - AU · Jan 29, 2024

Literature a strong medium to unite society: CM

The International Literature Festival of Kerala celebrates humanity through literature, featuring writers from around the world.

The Hindu · Jan 28, 2024

Does having babies really make women more productive? I felt as if I had been dismantled

Well done, all the new mothers who cram a full day’s work into their child’s nap time. But, writes Emma Beddington, let’s not pretend it’s easy

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2024

Day by Michael Cunningham; The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez review – tales from the Covid era

Two New York novels – one a melodrama of familial tension, the other musings from an unlucky housesitter – investigate life during the pandemic

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2024

My son is impressed that my book can be read in Estonian

But to him, some aspects of book writing are still lost in translation, says Séamas O’Reilly

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2024

Best short novels for a classic quick read in 2024

Ingenious storytelling in 300 pages or less

Evening Standard · Jan 28, 2024

For the record

Billy Smyth | Axel Scheffler / The Gruffalo’s Child | Argylle / Todd Boehly | Castanheiro hotel, Madeira | Mary, Queen of Scots

The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2024