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International Literature Festival coming to Dublin this Spring

The festival is the perfect family friendly activity to kick start the summer season

Dublin Live

Indian opposition decries new schoolbook's omission of Hindu rage at Mahatma Gandhi

Indian opposition parties on Wednesday condemned the removal from some schoolbooks of references to how independence hero Mahatma Gandhi's pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity angered some Hindu extremists and led to his assassination.

Reuters

Alice Oseman reveals plans for sixth volume of Heartstopper graphic novels

Forthcoming fifth volume of the hit series was planned to be the last but writer says a sixth book will give characters ‘their final moment to shine’

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Daisy Jones And The Six's Best Original Songs, Ranked

Amazon Prime's Daisy Jones & The Six featured lots of original music for the fictional band and others. Here's my ranking of the best of them.

Cinemablend

Edinburgh social worker wrote 'disrespectful' book detailing experience with patients

The hearing with the Scottish Social Services Council detailed how Grey wrote and published the book to purchase on Amazon which detailed numerous experiences with individuals under her care as a social worker

Edinburgh Live

Where to start with: George Eliot

Her uplifting and melancholy masterpieces include Middlemarch – but you can enjoy funny, wise stories that are less than 800 pages long too

The Guardian - UK

As someone from the theatre and film scene I find writing quite liberating: Actor-author Vivaan Shah on his new novel 'The Forsaken Wilderness'

Bollywood actor Vivaan Shah is best-known for his roles in the films like '7 Khoon Maaf', 'Happy New Year', 'Bombay Velvet', and 'A Suitable Boy'. Not just that, he is also an author! Vivaan Shah's latest book 'The Forsaken Wilderness', a thrilling adventure and a horror novel, was published by…

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Top 10 first lines in fiction

The first words of a story have to do a lot of work in snaring the reader. Novelist Liz Nugent considers some of her favourites

The Guardian - UK

Amazon set to close its Book Depository online shop amid global job cuts

Gloucestershire-founded Book Depository was acquired by the retail giant in 2011

Birmingham Post

Liverpool's longest running writing festival returns for 23rd year

Celebrating and exploring people, culture and social issues at this year's festival

Liverpool Echo

Sarah Penner delivers a spirited mystery in ‘London Seance Society’

"The London Seance Society" by Sarah Penner; Park Row Books (352 pages, $30)

Tribune News Service

‘Great Discoveries in Medicine’ shows how modern advances are rooted in ancient methods

“Great Discoveries in Medicine: From Ayurveda to X-rays, Cancer to Covid” and edited by William and Helen Bynum; Thames & Hudson (352 pages, $16.95 paper)

Tribune News Service

Review: 'Half-Life of a Secret,' by Emily Strasser

NONFICTION: A writer delves into the life of her grandfather, who helped build the atomic bomb.

Tribune News Service

Baseball is back and Chicago’s Ira Berkow gives us dozens of tales about ‘Baseball’s Best Ever’

The crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd … the game of baseball, long part of the American landscape and firmly placed in the hearts of millions, is back.

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Serious Minneapolis author Curtis Sittenfeld writes a comedy, and it's LOL funny

The bestselling Minneapolis author realized that her next book needed to be fun. And it is.

Tribune News Service

Laurie Hertzel: Readers have a multitude of reasons why they keep the books they love

'Miles of individual, wonderful words'

The Independent UK

Book Depository customers hit out at Amazon as online seller closes after two decades

‘Delivering your favourite reads to you has been a pleasure’, says online retailer, shut down amid ongoing Amazon job cuts

The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Secrets Of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden and To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

'Min Al Katra'…Saudi Novel Inspired by Beauty of Asir

Dar Athar Publishing, Dammam, released a new novel entitled “Min al Katra” (“From the Window”) by Dr. Abdelaziz M. al-Qahtani. With a simple language and flowing narrative style, the book explores the ambiances in a village, in Asir region, where people live a modest and complication-free life. The novel also…

The Guardian - UK

The Home Child by Liz Berry review – a long injustice

Based on the life of the author’s great-aunt, this verse novel about forced child emigration from the UK to Canada is a profound act of witness

The Independent UK

Sarah Ferguson says royals ‘can’t have it both ways’ if they choose to leave

Exclusive: The Duchess of York speaks out amid fallout from Prince Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’

ABC News

Online retailer Book Depository closing after nearly 20 years, customers lament decision

The online book seller announces its closure on social media, saying it will still honour orders placed in the coming weeks.

The Guardian - US

Democrats bid to use censorship law against DeSantis and ban his book

Opponents say memoir The Courage to Be Free, published in February, violates law governor signed last year

GamesRadar

Ethan Sacks and his daughter Naomi tell a personal tale of mental health and healing in A Haunted Girl

Ethan and Naomi Sacks are telling a deeply personal tale of a family in crisis in A Haunted Girl

Space

In 'Star Wars: The High Republic' novel 'Cataclysm' the Path of the Open Hand strikes again

The new "Star Wars: The High Republic - Cataclysm" novel lands on April 4 from Random House Worlds, with Axel Greylark aiding the Jedi in this latest prequel adventure.

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