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Kate Garraway announces new career move with Derek - but admits it has been 'so tough'

Good Morning Britain host Kate Garraway has announced a new project with a touching connection to her husband Derek Draper

Daily Mirror

Masterpieces and oddities: Cormac McCarthy’s bleak, bold and batty films

From the exemplary adaptation of No Country for Old Men to the offbeat screenplay for The Counselor, McCarthy’s sparse style lent itself to cinema

The Guardian - AU

Cormac McCarthy death: Revered author of The Road and No Country For Old Men dies aged 89

American author, known for novels ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’, died at his home in New Mexico

The Independent UK

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Stephen King leads tributes to The Road author Cormac McCarthy: ‘The greatest American novelist of my time’

US author remembered for novels including ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’

The Independent UK

Cormac McCarthy showed us America’s violent heart

With mordant wit and stark description, the literary great wove a tapestry of anger, humour, decency and bad behaviour – and of the perpetual terror of man

The Guardian - US

Cormac McCarthy only signed 250 copies of The Road so son could sell them and ‘go to Las Vegas’

US author was famously averse to promoting his own material

The Independent UK

Cormac McCarthy, ‘No Country for Old Men’ author, dies at 89

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian” and “All the Pretty Horses.”

Chicago Sun-Times

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Cormac McCarthy was the author of heavy books. In turn, those books inspired some very heavy music

Cormac McCarthy has died aged 89. The author of No Country For Old Men, The Road, Blood Meridian, his books struck a chord with Nick Cave, Clutch, Earth, Watain and more – why?

Metal Hammer

Elizabeth Gilbert criticized for 'wrongheaded' decision to pull Russia-set novel

The bestselling author of "Eat, Pray, Love" is pulling her forthcoming book from publication after facing online backlash, which is baffling the literary community.

Los Angeles Times

Cormac McCarthy, lauded author of 'The Road' and 'No Country for Old Men,' dies at 89

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of novels that included “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” has died

The Independent UK

Cormac McCarthy, dark genius of US literature, dies age 89

Cormac McCarthy, whose nihilistic tales of the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds led to awards, has died at the age of 89.

The New Daily

No Country For Old Men author Cormac McCarthy dies aged 89

McCarthy, known for his novels including The Road and No Country For Old Men, died of natural causes.

The Independent UK

A life in quotes: Cormac McCarthy

The renowned US author, whose work includes Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men, has died at the age of 89

The Guardian - US

‘The greatest American novelist of my time’: Stephen King leads tributes to The Road author Cormac McCarthy

US author remembered for novels including ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’

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Bangkok Post

Cormac McCarthy, revered American novelist, dies at 89

NEW YORK: Celebrated author Cormac McCarthy, an unflinching chronicler of America's bleak frontiers and grim underbelly, died on Tuesday aged 89, his publisher said.

Los Angeles Times

Cormac McCarthy, author of ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘Blood Meridian,’ dies at 89

Cormac McCarthy, the acclaimed fiction writer whose books were regarded as American masterpieces by critics and legions of fans but who refused to offer insight into what had inspired them or what they might mean, has died.

Tribune News Service

Michigan commission asks attorney general if book bans violate civil rights law

LANSING, Michigan — The Michigan Civil Rights Commission has asked Attorney General Dana Nessel's office for a formal opinion on whether the banning of books and LGBTQ pride flags within schools violates a state law against discrimination.

The Guardian - US

Cormac McCarthy, celebrated US novelist, dies aged 89

Author of Blood Meridian, The Road and No Country for Old Men died in his home of natural causes, publisher announces

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Daily Record

Rebus author Sir Ian Rankin 'thrilled' to be knighted at Buckingham Palace

Sir Ian, whose 26-books series on gritty Edinburgh detective John Rebus has been translated into 22 languages, was knighted for services to literature and charity on Tuesday.

The Walrus

Forgetting to Remember

In her sweeping, multi-generational debut novel, Jasmine Sealy weaves together broken family ties

The Independent UK

It was thrilling to be honoured with knighthood at Palace – Sir Ian Rankin

The creator of John Rebus and winner of several national and international awards has been knighted for services to literature and charity.

The Conversation

Why medieval manuscripts are full of doodles of snail fights

The doodles found in the margins of very old manuscripts are often just as interesting as the content of the manuscripts themselves. One such example is the frequently recurring – and extremely odd – image of knights warring against snails.

The Guardian - UK

Maggie O’Farrell leads sales ahead of Women’s prize for fiction announcement

Historical novel The Marriage Portrait has sold 72,819 copies – more than any other title on the 2023 Women’s prize shortlist

The Guardian - US

‘Eat, pray, pander’: mixed reactions after Elizabeth Gilbert pulls Russia-set novel

Author’s decision to remove The Snow Forest from publication because of Russia-Ukraine war sparks intense debate

The Hindu

Manjamma and her magic wand of Jogathi Nritya

Manjamma Jogathi is very clear about one thing. “It was my art, not activism, that took me from the pavement to the Padma Shri,” she reiterated several times at the recent launch of her autobiography From Manjunath to Manjamma.

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