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Bold Street is a special place but could be in danger of losing its soul

The city centre street has long been an enclave of much-loved independent businesses

Liverpool Echo

Book bans are soaring in US schools, fueled largely by new laws in Republican-led states

Fearing criminal penalties, public schools throughout Missouri removed hundreds of books from their libraries after state lawmakers last year made it illegal to provide students with “sexually explicit” material — a new law that carried punishment of up to a year in prison.

Los Angeles Times

Underdogs Brighton triumphing in the most rigged casino game of all

Trust, courage, brains and a process: Sunday’s FA Cup semi-finalists have defied all the odds under Tony Bloom

The Guardian - UK

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Penguin to publish 'I'm a Climate Optimist' by activist Aakash Ranison

On World Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22 globally, Penguin Random House India announced the acquisition of a new non-fiction book on the environment by climate change activist Aakash Ranison. Titled 'I'm a Climate Optimist', the book will be released on World Environment Day, which will be marked…

The Times of India

Novelist Celeste Ng: ‘There was a period when I thought I’d never write again’

The award-winning author on how Trump, Covid and anti-Asian rhetoric inspired her latest novel, digging her way out of ‘post-book fatigue’, and learning to touch type using Ulysses

The Guardian - UK

Former police officer makes £500,000 a year from writing zombie thriller novels

Richard Haywood was on £38,000 a year as a police constable but now makes around half a million pounds a year from his highly successful book zombie book series, writing under the name RR Haywood

Daily Mirror

Prince William ‘has no interest’ in speaking to Prince Harry before King’s coronation

William is reportedly ‘still upset’ about Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’

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Ruby Wax reveals she was admitted to mental institution after depression 'snuck up' on her

Ruby Wax has released a new book called I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was as she talks about her mental health

Daily Mirror

‘Childbirth is not an aesthetic’: Meghan Trainor opens up about being influenced by pregnancy content

Trainor recently announced she’s expecting her second child with husband Daryl Sabara

The Independent UK

Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson review – voice of a generation

A collection of the radical poet’s writing charts a groundbreaking career chronicling the black British experience

The Guardian - UK

Bestselling author Pip Williams returns with The Bookbinder of Jericho, a companion novel to her hit The Dictionary of Lost Words

In The Bookbinder of Jericho, Pip Williams tells the stories of working-class women in World War I that are too often missing from the official historical archive.

ABC News

Evil dad raped daughter and wanted her to be his wife

Carol Higgins, 54, reported the abuse to police in 1985 but an investigation was not launched until 2015.

Daily Record

The Guardian view on Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists: why we love a list

Editorial: Yes, they are marketing tools – but cataloguing culture says much about the society we live in

The Guardian - UK

Johnny Marr has a new book coming out that documents his epic guitar collection and the most significant instruments from his career

Marr's Guitars available to pre-order in deluxe hardback, shipping October, and features the photography of Pat Graham and the stories behind the guitars from Marr himself

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Bill Dusinberre obituary

Other lives: Reader in history at Warwick University who specialised in writing about American slavery

Woman & Home

Princess Catherine's idea that Meghan Markle found very difficult

Princess Catherine 'didn't want to have any regrets' - but Meghan struggled with the idea

The Guardian - UK

When climate despair spills over into righteous violence, can that ever be right?

How to Blow Up a Pipeline makes a case for sabotage, but hope remains that we can build rather than destroy, says campaigner Natasha Walter

Total Film

The Power's Toheeb Jimoh on the show's urgent exploration of toxic masculinity

Total Film speaks to Toheeb Jimoh about playing a journalist in a newfound matriarchy on Amazon's The Power

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‘It feels worse’: Britons on race issues since Stephen Lawrence murder

Thirty years after the teenager’s death, people are asking how much the country has really changed

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Hexham Book Festival is under way with big name authors and children's Storyland to come

Guests to annual literary festival, running until April 30, include Robert Hardman, Susannah Constantine, David Dimbleby, Simon Armitage and Alexander McCall Smith

The Independent UK

Judy Blume, on top of the world (and her Key West bookstore)

In a lifetime of amazing plot twists, Judy Blume is enjoying another at age 85

Manchester Evening News

Gruffalo fans rejoice! FREE exhibition celebrating the works of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler coming to Salford

The new landmark exhibition will include lots of fun opportunities for children to be creative themselves

The Guardian - UK

Dancer Edward Watson: ‘Get the wind machine, get my clothes off and get out there’

The performer talks us through the photographers who documented his shapeshifting career with the Royal Ballet

The Conversation

Black students in Washington state played key role in the Civil Rights Movement, new book states

When it comes to civil rights history, the focus is often on the marches, boycotts, sit-ins and other protests that took place in the South. In “Washington State Rising,” Marc Arsell Robinson, assistant professor of African American history at California State University, San Bernardino, takes a look at the civil…

The Independent UK

Our weekend arts and culture picks, from Paramore to Derren Brown

The Independent’s team of critics and editors pick the best of the weekend’s cultural possibilities

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