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Pensioner has lived in a converted lorry for 30 years and spends just £25 a week

Mike Leaver, 70, spends his days writing novels from his converted lorry that has been parked in the exact spot it broke down for 20 years - he spent the previous years travelling 10 years

Daily Mirror

Bob Odenkirk continues his lucky streak

The actor returns to comedy, and fans following him may not miss Slipping Jimmy as much as they'd think

Salon

Pope Benedict XVI's aide acknowledges criticism over memoir

The longtime secretary to Pope Benedict XVI has acknowledged that his tell-all memoir has been criticized for casting Pope Francis in an unfavorable light

The Independent UK

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King Charles "punished" Prince Harry and Andrew with royal evictions, author claims

Royal biographer Christopher Andersen claims King Charles requested Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave Frogmore Cottage and Prince Andrew to vacate Royal Lodge to 'economise' but also 'punish' them.

Daily Record

In brief: The English Actor; Cursed Bread; The Restless Republic – reviews

A woolly history of stage acting; a sensuous tale of deadly obsession in a French town; and a seminal exploration of Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate

The Guardian - UK

Does it pay to be a top author?

How hard is it for New Zealand authors to make a living from their craft?

Newsroom.co.nz

How to sell 30,000 copies of a self-published debut novel

The amazing success story of a Takapuna writer

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Cuddy by Benjamin Myers review – a polyphonic hymn to the north-east

The novelist’s afterlife of St Cuthbert spans centuries and volumes, making for a vibrant alternative history of the region

The Guardian - UK

Mary Beard: ‘Everyone is policing everything, and the left are just as bad as the right’

The classicist on life on the culture wars’ frontline, what she owes her mother – and how pizza shaped her TV career

The Guardian - UK

Run, Rebel review – issues-led adaptation of Manjeet Mann’s YA novel

Jessica Kaur captivates as a talented teenage runner trying to escape her father’s expectations and violence in a vivid, if overlong production

The Guardian - UK

Tomás Nevinson by Javier Marías review – seductive and inescapably poignant

The Spanish novelist’s final book is a twisting espionage tale shot through with slantwise humour

The Guardian - UK

A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told collaborator

Thomas Hertog worked with cosmologist on a new book after he shared his doubts about A Brief History of Time

The Guardian - UK

The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life review – one from the heart

Feminist philosopher Clare Carlisle illuminates George Elliot’s love life as well as the nightmarish marriages in her novels

The Guardian - UK

A Stranger in Your Own City by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad review – 20 years of frustration and fury in Iraq

The architects of the 2003 invasion promised change and democracy. This book shatters western assumptions, shows the effect on Iraqis of cycles of violence – and offers cautious hope

The Guardian - UK

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The Times of India

AutHer Awards 2023 winners announced at a gala event in New Delhi

It was an exciting evening at Taj Palace, New Delhi this Sunday as the audience witnessed a heart-warming celebration of Indian women writers on the occasion of AutHer Awards 2023 winner announcements. The AutHer Awards, a joint venture between The Times of India and JK Paper, celebrates women authors who…

The National (Scotland)

The dusty old box labelled 'Dracula' that was almost binned – but held a treasure

MARKED “DRACULA”, the dusty old box lay in Louise Fyfe’s attic in her Ayrshire home for years.

The Guardian - AU

I believed readers only wanted trauma stories from writers of colour. Then I became an author

For so long, it seemed that readers were only interested in the experiences of people like me if we were traumatised, not triumphant – and I internalised this as an indisputable fact

The Independent UK

Michael Rosen echoes Gary Lineker comment during speech outside Downing Street

The former children’s laureate cited Lineker during a speech to hundreds of anti-racism protesters in Whitehall.

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The Guardian - UK

Richard Milward: ‘I hid my writing like a secret vice’

The novelist on his latest book, a Charles Manson-inspired work written in slang, his love of the band Mogwai and the trials of sorting post for Royal Mail

The Guardian - UK

Imagine a time when Shakespeare played a very second fiddle to Ben Jonson

Richard Cohen’s Making History returned me to the childhood ecstasy of leafing through my first encyclopaedia

The Independent UK

Bible of priest who smuggled Charles II out of England to go under the hammer

The book, which could have been present at the monarch’s death, could be sold for upwards of £2,000.

Newslaundry

Vineet Gill’s book on Nirmal Verma is a reader’s tribute to reading

In what seems like a modern indictment of the race for instant literary labelling, Nirmal Verma’s writings defied the trappings of casual reading. There are many ways leading to his wide-ranging body of work but none of them is an easy route. To a large extent, that means that any…

Chicago Sun-Times

I’m grateful I could return to India before more changes take hold

The devastation of the pandemic and lockdown only heightened the feeling that we don’t get to see our loved ones overseas enough, and left us wondering if flying to India would ever be possible again.

The Guardian - UK

Graham Potter at Chelsea is lovely PR – but is it misdirection before the big plot twist?

The European Super League project never went away and England’s two refuseniks now have cause to change their minds

The Guardian - UK

Man-Eating Typewriter by Richard Milward review – homage to 60s gay counterculture

Studded with Polari, this bold novel is a dazzling entertainment of sexual and linguistic transgression

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