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Author and playwright David Benedictus dies aged 85

The writer was best known for books including Return To The Hundred Acre Wood.

The Independent UK · Oct 9, 2023

Alabama flags children’s book for censorship because author’s name is ‘Gay’

Read Me a Story Stella has no sexual content – and is in fact about two siblings spending the day reading and building a fort

The Independent UK · Oct 9, 2023

Nicola Sturgeon paid first £75,000 instalment for 'personal and revealing' memoirs

NICOLA Sturgeon has been paid the first £75,000 of four installments for her memoirs.

The National (Scotland) · Oct 9, 2023

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‘Upending the genre’: the children’s author rewriting the rules of sex ed

A new trio of books for kids focuses on consent, kindness and curiosity. Author Cory Silverberg explains why we need to rethink talking with young people about sex

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2023

Monica by Daniel Clowes review – pitch-perfect portraits of an ever scarier US

A prickly misfit connects nine dark tales in this sad and sharply funny new book from the author of Ghost World

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2023

David Walliams ‘locked in Italian prison cell for seven hours’ during Venice trip

‘Little Britain’ star told onlookers at Henley Literary Festival 2023 that he was recently apprehended at an airport in Venice

The Independent UK · Oct 9, 2023

Publishing industry faces ‘huge problem’ as thousands of students illegally download texts

There were 300,000 searches made to piracy sites that allowed downloading text from books in September, Perlego says

The Independent UK · Oct 9, 2023

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Publishing industry faces billions in costs as students illegally download texts

There were 300,000 searches made to piracy sites that allow you to download text from books in September, Perlego said.

The Independent UK · Oct 8, 2023

A timely escape into sports history

Rich Cohen calls the 1987-88 NBA season the greatest ever.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 8, 2023

Music, history and courageous journalism: Baillie Gifford prize shortlist announced

Judges praise the final six ‘exquisite and ambitious’ works in contention for the £50,000 award for nonfiction

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2023

Shortlist for Baillie Gifford Non-Fiction Prize 2023 unveiled

The winner will be announced during a ceremony on November 16.

The Independent UK · Oct 8, 2023

Where are the works on British black urban films?

UCL professor Clive Nwonka says genre should stand with traditions such as the French new wave and British social realism in terms of academic study

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2023

A Bird in Winter by Louise Doughty review – effortless entertainment

The Apple Tree Yard author and staple of TV drama returns with another addictive thriller about a woman on the run

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2023

Judy Murray rallies against ‘elitist image’ of tennis during talk at Henley Literary Festival

Murray’s new book is set among the ‘Haves’ and ‘Have-nots’ in the world of tennis

The Independent UK · Oct 8, 2023

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The Independent UK · Oct 8, 2023

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin author Louis de Bernières says Nicolas Cage had ‘horrendous’ time during film adaptation

Author was being interviewed onstage by The Independent’s chief books critic Martin Chilton for an event at Henley Literary Festival 2023

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2023

Sweden’s ‘queen of Noir’ Camilla Läckberg accused of using a ghostwriter

Crime novelist has been forced to deny claims that she tricked readers into buying books she didn’t write herself

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2023

Triggered Literature by John Sutherland review – a cautious approach

The academic treads a little too carefully in his wry but passionless history of books deemed harmful to a reader’s state of mind

The Hindu · Oct 8, 2023

P.S. Sreedharan Pillai — a Governor in his literary labyrinth

As Goa Governor, P.S. Sreedharan Pillai takes full advantage of his bully pulpit, speaking about, and disseminating his passion for reading and literature. He has authored more than 200 books which traverse an astonishing range of subjects – from history, politics, law to poetry and economy, being possibly the only…

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The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2023

The Pole and Other Stories by JM Coetzee review – lessons in beauty

With his bravura new novella, one of six stories in this collection, the Nobel prize winner proves once again that he is a master of his craft

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2023

Marriage is back, it seems, but it’s still OK to say ‘I don’t’

Increasing pressure to marry is political – so if it looks inviting, ask yourself whether what you really want is a big dress

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2023

Want to find fulfilment? Here’s what my years as an agony aunt have taught me

Philippa Perry, psychotherapist and writer of the Observer’s hugely popular problem page, shares what she’s learned about our search for contentment

The National (Scotland) · Oct 8, 2023

Tales of an icon: Stories, drama, adventures of the great Forth Rail Bridge

I STARE into the darkness through the train window. Glens and Bens may fly by, but I wouldn’t know. Eventually, the morning light reveals a dreich…

The Guardian - AU · Oct 7, 2023

‘I just wasn’t being honest’: a true crime author confronts the NT justice system and himself

When journalist Dan Box began looking into a murder case, his goal was to win a Walkley. But a friendship and a tragedy put him at the centre of the story

The Hindu · Oct 7, 2023

Ambai | Feminist without compromise

The Tamil publishing world believes Ambai to be the language’s first (and abiding) feminist writer, constantly challenging social gender normatives and sometimes, rewriting them.

Zenger · Oct 7, 2023

Canadian Book Exposes Anti-Semitic Past: ‘None Is Too Many’

New edition of influential book sheds light on Canada's troubling immigration policies during the Holocaust

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