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Outlander's Diana Gabaldon admits she gets paid more to write books than show scripts

The 71-year-old best-selling author also confessed she has had little involvement with the new season seven of the Starz show, having only been 'consulted' for the majority of episodes and scripted only one.

Daily Record

Times Litfest 2023: Arun Shourie and Barkha Dutt on politics, bureaucracy, and freedom of the press

In a candid session with fire-brand journalist Barkha Dutt at the Times Literature Festival 2023, on his recently published biography, 'The Commissioner for Lost Causes', former Union Minister Arun Shourie made some cutting revelations about Indian politics and the state of democratic affairs in the country. "Politics currently is in…

The Times of India

Beth Mead hosts fun football session to mark World Book Day

McDonald’s has committed to supporting families by providing access to over 10million free books and over 2million hours of free football coaching a year,

Wales Online

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When is World Book Day 2023? Where are the £1 vouchers accepted and what books are available?

World Book Day will be celebrated across the world as people gather to celebrate and share a love of reading

Chronicle Live

Meet the ‘toxic trauma’ expert interviewing Prince Harry

He’s treated his patients with psychedelic drugs and written books on ADHD, addiction and stress. Get to know Dr Gabor Maté, who is set to interview Prince Harry this weekend

Evening Standard

Meghan Markle despised being 'second-rate princess' to Kate Middleton, staff say in new book

The staff member says that one thing that Meghan didn't enjoy at all was being compared to Princess Kate.

Daily Record

‘We’ve rediscovered the joy of reading’: how customers are rescuing UK bookshops

A bookseller in Kent has gone viral after tweeting a picture of her empty shop. Here, other retailers explain how they are surviving – even thriving – when many people are counting every penny

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How Terry Pratchett fans can see lost short stories by sci-fi author

A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories will be published in October

Evening Standard

World Book Day 2023 costumes for girls and boys from B&M, Sainsbury's, Asda and more

Get some much-needed inspiration for a last minute World Book Day costumes including Horrid Henry, Spider Man, Mary Poppins, Peter Rabbit, Harry Potter and more

Liverpool Echo

Abortion was popular in the 19th century

Author Jennifer Wright on how abortionist Madame Restell got rich in the 1800s — before she was driven to suicide

Salon

World Book Day 2023: UK’s most popular children’s books revealed

Study uses Google data to analyse the number of searches for more than 370 popular books in 181 countries in the past year

Evening Standard

Courteney Cox responds to Prince Harry claim he did mushrooms at her 'wild' party

The actress, who features in the upcoming Scream movie, has responded to Prince Harry's claims in his tell-all memoir Spare - where he claimed to have done mushrooms at her mansion.

Edinburgh Live

Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yuval Noah Harari, Salman Rushdie, Rutger Bregman, Elif Shafak, Robin Sharma: Times Litfest 2023 had the biggest names ever at any Litfest!

After a two-year hiatus due to Corona, the Times Literature Festival re-emerged in its physical avatar with a bang this year. On February 11 and 12, 2023, the Times Literature Festival (TLF) was held at the Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi, and it witnessed the coming together of some…

The Times of India

New editions of Ian Fleming's James Bond books to be published with changes 70 years on from first release

Ian Fleming's family says new editions of the James Bond books feature "very small" changes inspired by a 1955 US edition of Live and Let Die which the author preferred.

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The Independent UK

Ian Fleming’s estate backs controversial James Bond edits: ‘It is something he would have wanted’

Author previously approved similar edits for the US publication of ‘Live and Let Die’

The Guardian - UK

We’re All Just Fine by Ana Penyas review – home truths in a tyrant’s reign

Rich in detail, this award-winning debut explores the evolution of Spanish womanhood through drudgery, dictatorship and liberation

Daily Mirror

Meghan Markle hated being 'second-rate princess' to Kate, say staff in new book

A Kensington Palace staff member has recalled Meghan Markle's reaction to royal life in Tom Quinn's new book, Gilded Youth An Intimate History of Growing Up in the Royal Family

Asharq Al-Awsat

Chirac Warned Bush against Overthrowing Saddam

French Diplomat Maurice Gourdault-Montagne's memoirs are unlike those of any regular ambassador that fill French libraries year after year. The author of “The Others Don’t Think Like Us” is no ordinary ambassador. Now retired, his long diplomatic career took him to Tokyo, Beijing, Berlin and London. He was France’s sherpa…

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‘Ruthless ambition and ego’: what it’s like being married to an author

In a meticulously researched new book, the lives of five literary wives are examined and the often abusive relationships they found themselves in

The Independent UK

Censoring Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming has nothing to do with ‘sensitivity’

Fleming and Dahl’s books are at the centre of a furore over censorship and outdated language. ‘Cancel-proofing’ makes sense from a cynical business perspective, writes Louis Chilton – but it lets everybody off the hook far too easily

The Guardian - UK

A greener Marx? Kohei Saito on connecting communism with the climate crisis

Author of surprise hit Capital in the Anthropocene has developed his arguments in a new study of Karl Marx’s ecological thinking

Daily Record

Scottish psychic discovered healing powers as child after racist bullying

Laura Tuach, known as Madre Palmistry, works with a host of celebrity clients including reality TV stars and footballers.

Miami Herald

Why the unwritten parts of DeSantis’ book are among its most interesting tidbits

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In his new book to be released on Tuesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis describes what he thinks it takes to govern America in an era of grievance politics and partisan polarization, but what the Florida governor leaves out of his 256-page telling is often as interesting as what…

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Tasmanian author finds own book listed on Amazon under different author's name

Imagine writing a 350-page children's book and having it published — only to find a duplicate copy for sale on Amazon with someone else's name attached. That's exactly what happened to Tasmanian writer Lian Tanner.

The Independent UK

Dilbert creator Scott Adams says publisher ‘canceled’ upcoming book after racism scandal

Comic creator called Black people ‘hate group’

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