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Ban the ban, not the book? Giannoulias caps return with string of legislative wins, including anti-censorship law

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias told the Sun-Times he was “blown away” after reading about book bans across the country. “To me, this is a slippery slope, and it goes against what education is about,” he said.

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Queen Camilla almost misses important engagement as she arrives just in time to embrace Judi Dench

The Queen almost missed a crucial royal engagement this weekend as she was delayed on the roads while traveling to her own event

Woman & Home

Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy review – a mother’s confession after the fight of her life

An unnamed narrator shares the dislocating demands of early motherhood with her son in Kilroy’s astonishing new novel

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Northumberland author twins isolated areas of Kielder and Iceland in latest thriller

Mari Hannah's latest book Black Fell takes her protagonists Stone and Oliver to Iceland in the search for answers after skeletal remains wash up on the shores of Kielder Water

Chronicle Live

Bail hearing set for Utah woman accused of killing husband then writing grief book for kids

A Utah mother of three who authorities say fatally poisoned her husband then wrote a children’s book about grieving has been scheduled for a bail hearing

The Independent UK

King meets authors and actors at Hampton Court literary festival

The festival is a co-production between The Queen’s Reading Room and Historic Royal Palaces.

The Independent UK

Democrats need to wake up

Federal indictments against Trump are not a turning point.

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‘Places with good public healthcare controlled COVID better’

The Hindu

How Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis’ Nanny Will Shape Their Lives Deep into Adulthood

Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo has been with the Wales family for as long as all three kids can remember.

Marie Claire

In brief: Winkle; The Winding Stair; Act of Oblivion – review

A fascinating study of a wartime ace pilot, Jesse Norman’s debut historical novel and Robert Harris’s gripping tale of regicides on the run

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting: 'I won't apologise for being ambitious - but I'm loyal to Keir Starmer'

Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting tells the Mirror: 'If Rishi had had a background that was more like mine... he wouldn't have taken 20 quid off people in Universal Credit every week'

Daily Mirror

Rattlebone by Maxine Clair review – overlooked coming-of-age classic

Empathic and rich in human detail, this 1994 novel of Black life in 1950s Kansas deserves to reach a wider audience

The Guardian - UK

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck review – subtle insights into politics and passion

A love affair in 1980s Berlin mirrors the demise of the socialist dream in the German author’s absorbing fourth novel

The Guardian - UK

Dilemma for UK authors as Russia offers huge sums for escapist fiction

Writers are receiving enticing bids for foreign rights to their books this spring, but many feel they cannot accept the money while the war continues

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‘A voice from the past’: harp played by Jane Austen’s cousin sings again

Musician restores 250-year-old instrument of writer’s cousin, who is said to have inspired Mansfield Park character Mary Crawford

The Times of India

Sutapa Sikdar plans to pen a book on Irrfan Khan, wants it to be a funny journey

Irrfan Khan's wife, writer Sutapa Sikdar, says she wishes to pen a book exploring the funny side of the late actor's personality. With a career spanning over three decades, Irrfan was known for his performances in "Maqbool", "The Namesake", "Paan Singh Tomar", "Haider", "Piku" and "The Lunchbox". He died from…

The Guardian - UK

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain review – a fallen hero in the dock

Julian Jackson’s meticulous, engaging history of the collaborator general and his downfall is a gripping study of dishonour and denial

The Independent UK

Claudia Rankine shares discovery that gave her compassion for her mother

The poet says she and her mother became ‘women who shared something’ after the discovery

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The Independent UK

Claudia Rankine: Learning about my conception gave me compassion for my mother

Speaking on Desert Island Discs the US poet revealed she had been conceived ‘as a product of rape’.

Daily Mirror

'Cancer stories hit me differently now': Wes Streeting shares emotional story ahead of new book

The Labour Shadow Health Secretary's searingly honest book, One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up, charts his journey from the East End to Cambridge University and Westminster

Daily Record

Prince Harry leaves sweet gift for flight attendant as he dashes back to US

The Duke of Sussex gifted a copy of his memoir, Spare, to cabin crew Holden Pattern who worked on the American Airlines flight across the Atlantic.

The Guardian - UK

James Comey: ‘I’d like to take readers inside the White House’

The former FBI director, who was sacked by Donald Trump, on parallels between the ex-president and mafia bosses, why he would never run for office, and his new crime thriller

Belfast Live

A People Under Siege author warns of dangers of unionist apathy

Aaron Edwards says progressive unionism has been “eviscerated by Brexit”

Belfast Live

Margaret McGuckin's tribute as brother dies on day of book launch about their story of surviving abuse

"I was sort of going 'God help her, how did she get through that?' and I know I'm saying 'she', how did I go through that?"

Salon

Philip K. Dick's grim ChatGPT prediction

Dick's novel "The Penultimate Truth" already showed us how AI that writes according to prompt can be corrupted

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