Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News on Books

Ruth Weiss, journalist who fought apartheid, finally honoured in South Africa

A prophet has no honour in their homeland, goes the biblical adage. But of the many places that journalist, author and activist Ruth Weiss has lived – Germany (where she was born), South Africa, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Britain, Zambia and Denmark – which is her home? On 28 April,…

The Conversation

Gogglebox: 'Nutty' and 'adored' Giles and Mary tease a big change

"I have been exiled these past three decades"

Bristol Post

‘Are You There, God?’ movie captures all the sweetness of Judy Blume’s enduring novel

A 11-year-old girl’s coming-of-age is handled with grace and tenderness in near-perfect adaptation

Chicago Sun-Times

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Rare Winnie-the-Pooh first edition to be auctioned at University of Queensland Alumni Book Fair

Prince Harry reportedly gifted his nephew Prince Louis a similar first edition copy of Winne-the-Pooh as a christening present.

ABC News

Book by runner who secretly wrote on bus to work going on sale

Chris Carse Wilson wrote as he was travelling on the bus to work at the V&A Dundee museum.

The Independent UK

Book of the Week: Ardern's kindness regime in fiction

"The Pākehā was Mr Nasty and the Māori Mr Nice": a lockdown novel that tests the rules

Newsroom.co.nz

Barry Humphries’ bargain book buys

Brief letters: Bibliophilia | Tories’ declaration of independence | Prepayment meters | School report language | A file on ‘Prince, Charles’

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023: the novelists and their books in the running

From stories about the US opioid crisis, to novels set in 16th century Italy, this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist has something for everyone

Evening Standard

‘She was my first’: Matthieu Blazy pays tribute to Kate Moss with new Bottega Veneta fanzine

Bottega Veneta creative director Matthieu Blazy looks back to his teenage adoration of Kate Moss with a new book of photographs and collages of the British supermodel

Wallpaper

The Color Purple musical: release date, cast, plot and everything we know about the movie

Get ready to unwrap The Color Purple musical as it makes its Christmas debut. Here's everything we know about the film.

WhatToWatch

In cookbook, Miranda Lambert reveals recipes that fed her

Country music star Miranda Lambert is dishing on the recipes from her family and friends in East Texas

The Independent UK

Kimmel on Trump’s new book: ‘It will probably be taught in Florida schools’

Late-night hosts discuss Trump’s new book of letters, Tucker Carlson’s ouster from Fox News and Biden’s re-election campaign announcement

The Guardian - US

Woman finds touching note inside book charity shop book - and is searching for owner

Rose Farmer, from Gilbert in Arizona, America, came across a handwritten note tucked into a copy of 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter' by Carson McCullers at Goodwill - and is now trying to track down its rightful owner

Daily Mirror

The Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist is proof success doesn’t have to happen at an early age

Whatever your goals are, age doesn’t have to be a barrier to success. By Abi Jackson.

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

‘I just saw the hand of God!’: Marylise Vigneau’s best photograph

‘Lahore suffers daily power outages and it felt like I’d found the culprit. The way the fingers seem to be interfering with overhead wires is what makes the shot work’

Inverse

'Dune 2' Could Fill In The Biggest Missing Piece From The Book

Footage of 'Dune: Part Two,' screened at CinemaCon 2023, might mean one time jump from the book could be filled in. Here's why that footage and comments from Denis Villeneuve in Vanity Fair could shake up the book's timeline.

Liverpool Echo

Liverpool Everyman Theatre tells story of stolen body cells that changed the course of medical history

Family Tree is a play about a woman's body cells taken without her consent or knowledge

Daily Record

Boswell Book Festival shares two refugees' stories to raise funds for Ukrainian crisis

The festival is returning this year to the magnificent Dumfries House with a variety of events, including a fundraiser for the Rotary Club Ukrainian Crisis Taskforce.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Jules and Jim review – an affecting love triangle but no match for Truffaut

While there is compassion and curiosity in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s adaptation, this production lacks the whirlwind quality of Roché’s novel and the film

The Independent UK

Toilet paper and advising public: Archives reveal coronation planners’ concerns

The National Archives highlighted documents relating to coronations of times gone by.

The Conversation

The invasion of Iraq defined US' foreign relations – but in popular Iraqi literature, the war is just a piece of the country's complex history

It’s been just over 20 years since the United States invaded Iraq. Some Americans have largely forgotten about the invasion, despite the fact the Sept. 11 attacks that precipitated it still loom large in U.S. national memory. Even during the heart of the war in 2006, most young Americans could…

Evening Standard

Why charity shops are the romantic heroes of the high street

From the slow experience to stories that lurk on every shelf (plus Gucci to be found!) — author, debut novelist and charity shop volunteer Lauren Bravo on the timeless thrill of thrifting in the capital

WhatToWatch

Tom Jones — release date, cast, plot, trailer, interview and all we know about the period drama

Tom Jones — Solly McLeod heads a star-studded cast in a colorful adaptation of the novel about an 18th-century lothario.

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 aunts in fiction

So often defying the conventions of their age, these inspiring figures are also dependable boons for nephews and nieces in books by authors from Jane Austen to JK Rowling

The Walrus

In the Internet Archive Lawsuit, a Win for Publishers May Come at a Cost for Readers Everywhere

The US court’s decision means that digital lending has become a pressing question for libraries and readers

1 … 492 493 494 495

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the National Archives

149 stories

Ayrshire Post

112 stories

the University of Queensland

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.