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Nicola Sturgeon says it's her dream to write a novel after quitting as first minister

The ex-FM says it's her "dream" to write a novel – and hinted that a memoir could be in the works.

Daily Record

Nicola Sturgeon: My dream now is to write a novel

The former first minister told an audience at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall she dreamed of writing a novel after stepping down from the role in March

The Independent UK

Texas parents fret over Winnie the Pooh being used to teach kids about school shootings

The Dallas school district has apologized for not giving parents any warning or guidance before it sent elementary school students home with a Winnie the Pooh-themed book about what to do in the event of a school shooting

The Independent UK

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What History Wants You to Know About Its ‘FDR’ Docuseries

Programming SVP Mary Donohue says 32nd president’s substantial legacy offers takeaways relevant to today

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When Newcastle was a two-club football city - new book explores club's forerunners

Latest book from football historian Paul Joannou lates

Chronicle Live

Latest GOP 2024 hopeful DeSantis 'blazing a trail' on book bans in Republican-controlled states

As he vies for the Republican presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is touting a series of measures he has pushed that have led to an upswing in banned or restricted books — not just in Florida schools but in an increasing number of other conservative states

The Independent UK

Chamber of horrors: the best and worst Westminster insider novels

Whips by Cleo Watson is nothing new – politicos have forever tried their hand at fiction. We take a referendum on the good, the bad and the scandalous

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May literary meet in Vijayapura from today

Eminent writers and activists will inaugurate in Vijayapura on Saturday the May Sahitya Sammelan, a Kannada literary festival, organised by writers.

The Hindu

Prince Harry's relationship with William 'destroyed by one simple word'

Royal commentator Daniela Elser claims that the chances of a reconciliation between the two brothers is very slim.

Daily Record

I waited tables for 13 years. Each unhappy customer is different and I learned from all of them

The waitress-customer dynamic is delicate. Naima Brown learned to parse entitlement without emotion – and seek revenge later, in fiction

The Guardian - AU

Lady Colin Campbell: Prince Harry contacted divorce lawyers 'months ago'

The 73-year-old said Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had been having 'problems in the marriage supposedly for some time'.

Daily Record

Shane Meadows on his newfound love of period drama: ‘It’ll resonate with people in a way we didn’t even intend’

He made his name with violence-peppered working-class realism, but now the This is England creator is doing historical drama. We step inside his take on a brutal 18th-century gang

The Guardian - UK

Your Friday night playlist curated by Ivor Novello Award-winner Kamille

She’s the fourth woman ever to win the Ivor Novello Award and written smash singles for Dua Lipa and Stormzy, all whilst juggling a newborn baby. It’s Kamille curating this week’s Friday night playlist…

Evening Standard

Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood audiobook review – reflections on a world in crisis

Atwood ranges across topics from the global heating to The Handmaid’s Tale, with actors Ciarán Hinds and Ann Dowd among the narrators

The Guardian - UK

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Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A concrete garden; a funny, uncompromising portrait of disability; an epic of ancient Greece; and the pick of new YA fiction

The Week

Martin Amis: literary wunderkind who ‘blazed like a rocket’

A “blazing, once-in-a-generation talent”, Martin Amis “provoked, inspired and outraged readers ... across a literary career that set off like a rocket, and went on to dazzle, streak and burn for almost 50 years”, said Boyd Tonkin in The Guardian.

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: Netflix ends password-sharing – but I’m close to bailing anyway

Plus, reflections on Martin Amis’s later years, and Jude Law’s disgusting new cologne

The Independent UK

Parliament full of ‘nooks and crannies’ for MPs to have sex in, Boris Johnson ex-aide says

Cleo Watson has recently written her first novel which includes a scene depicting a couple in ‘flagrante’ at Chequers

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Kamila Shamsie: ‘There’s nothing more comforting than Seinfeld scripts’

The novelist on the dangerous allure of Gone With the Wind, taking comfort in comedy and discovering George Eliot’s Middlemarch

The Hindu

Why did Butterfingers, the character created by Khyrunissa A, go to Texas in the new comic, Adventures in Texas and Other Stories

Why did Butterfingers character created by Khyrunissa A go to Texas in a new comic book

The Hindu

Brides descending from the moon to Sholay style rescues, wedding planner uncovers the world of the big fat Indian wedding

The Hindu

ISRO chief Somnath hails role of Sanskrit in India becoming knowledge society since Vedic times

India’s vedic knowledge came back to the country several thousand years later as discoveries by Western scientists, says ISRO hairman S. Somnath

Tribune News Service

African American English Dictionary gives first look at 10 words, including ‘bussin’ and ‘old school’

A dictionary comprised of words created or redefined by Black people released a list of 10 words that will appear when the book is published in March 2025.

The Guardian - UK

Travis Alabanza and Danielle Jawando win 2023 Jhalak prizes for writers of colour

Judges described None of the Above, Alabanza’s memoir about being genderqueer, as ‘desperately important’, and said every teenager should read Jawando’s young adult novel When Our Worlds Collided

Tribune News Service

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 20, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2023 Circana.

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