Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News on Books

Check out this real life puppet version of Mike Mignola's Pinocchio

Red Nose Studios has built a real life replica of Mike Mignola's take on Pinocchio.

GamesRadar

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 18, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2023 Circana.

Tribune News Service

This week's bestselling books

The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias.

Newsroom.co.nz

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

Mary Rayner obituary

Children’s author who devised the adventures of the Pig family and illustrated stories including Dick King-Smith’s The Sheep-Pig

The Guardian - UK

George, Charlotte and Louis were sent a hilarious pre-coronation gift

They must have laughed so much when they saw this

Marie Claire

Infinity Pool review: A luxury holiday leads to violence and orgies in this lurid Mia Goth thriller

The lines between victims and perpetrators is blurred in Cronenberg’s creepy and thought-provoking film about the filthy rich

The Independent UK

Resistance by Jacinta Halloran review – a perceptive novel about secrets and shame

Halloran’s fourth novel follows a therapist who becomes obsessed with her new clients, a family court-mandated to see her after a strange event

The Guardian - AU

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

Eric Brown, science fiction author and Guardian critic, dies aged 62

Writers, publishers and agents pay tribute to a warm, generous figure, author of more than 50 books ranging from SFF to crime to children’s literature

The Guardian - UK

Kate Middleton 'had to take a fertility test' before marrying Prince William, claims royal author

The controversial claim was made in a new book about the monarchy

Marie Claire

In Memoriam by Alice Winn review – an elegy for young love

Two young men journey from the classroom to the trenches in this tale of a forbidden relationship set against the first world war

The Guardian - UK

Library association reports record book ban attempts in 2022

A new report from the American Library Association says attempted book bannings and restrictions at school and public libraries continue to surge, setting a new record in 2022

The Independent UK

‘These are my stomping grounds’: the first Black-owned bookstore opens in Octavia Butler’s home town

Octavia’s Bookshelf promotes Black writers, culture and business in Pasadena, where the famed novelist lived and worked

The Guardian - US

Patrick French: the biographer of VS Naipaul was a generous collaborator with twinkling wit

The writer and historian, who has died aged 56, was not only widely respected for his writing on India but a kind and optimistic man, says fellow academic Maya Jasanoff

The Guardian - UK

Melania’s former adviser responds to claim she left Trump over Stormy Daniels scandal: ‘I was there!’

Ex-aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff denies Melania left White House for DC hotel as Stormy Affair came to light in 2018

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Dylan Thomas prize shortlist includes four debuts

Three British writers are among the six nominees including Saba Sams for her short story collection, Send Nudes, and Warsan Shire for Bless the Daughter Raised By a Voice in Her Head

The Guardian - UK

Plotters by Lizzie Dearden review – the terrorists who failed

From malfunctioning satnavs to dud bombs, the stories behind botched attacks on the UK

The Guardian - UK

To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher review – a pandemic masterclass

Hensher brilliantly explores the lockdown experience, and how to bear witness to it, in this fluid portrait of south London lives

The Guardian - US

Blood for money: my journey in the industry buying poor Americans’ plasma

The US is one of the few countries that allows donors – who are often struggling economically – to be paid for plasma

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Chicago Tribune

Illinois House OKs measure to allow the state to deny grants to libraries that ban books

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois House on Wednesday approved a measure that would allow the Illinois secretary of state’s office to deny grant funding to public and school libraries if they ban books or fail to devise policies against removing titles from their stacks.

The Independent UK

The poll comes weeks after it was reported that Harry and Meghan were invited to the King’s coronation

Daily Mirror

Prince Philip terrified President Obama's security with bold demand they couldn't refuse

The late Duke of Edinburgh was clearly intent on driving the high-profile guests to lunch himself when they arrived at Windsor Castle - even if it did terrify the security detail

The Conversation

The most expensive book of all time? What makes this $50 million Hebrew Bible so special?

In May, Sotheby’s headquarters in New York will be hosting the auction of what could be the most expensive book of all time: a bible estimated up to 50 million dollars. It is said to be one of the oldest in the world, an example of a book unlike any other.…

Salon

ACT UP slams new AIDS denialism book

ACT UP NY penned a letter to the publishing company, emphasizing the harm of HIV/AIDS misinformation and denialism

Newsroom.co.nz

Book of the Week: Terfs, and other haters

This week's anti-trans rally is straight out of the right-wing playbook

Irish Mirror

Norma Foley says it will not 'be acceptable' for primary schools to ask for voluntary contributions for book money

Education Minister Norma Foley has announced that funding worth €96 per child will be provided to every school to provide books, copy books and workbooks to all primary school children.

1 … 535 536 537 538

People

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

Organisations

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.