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Review: 'Wandering Souls,' by Cecile Pin

FICTION: Three orphaned Vietnamese children are forced to make a new life in England.

Tribune News Service

How the ghost and the words of Chicago writer Nelson Algren are being kept alive

CHICAGO — Nelson Algren will not go away. Although he moved from Chicago in 1975 and died in 1981, he has managed to remain a frequent visitor, in the form of his famous novels, of course, but also in other ways that have given him a strange form of immortality.

Chicago Tribune

Review: 'Dust Child,' by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

FICTION: In her second English-language novel, an acclaimed Vietnamese author gives voice to the forgotten children of war.

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Moira Macdonald on what new books to read this April

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A ghost in Kansas City: After years of writing for others, author now has a book of his own

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If you ever meet Tim Vandehey, resist the urge.

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‘There I was, a tiny speck in a vast universe’ … How awe made my life worth living again

I spent my adult life pushing away my sense of enchantment. Illness taught me how much I needed it

The Guardian - UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of I Will Find You by Harlan Coben and Cuddy by Benjamin Myers.

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Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead at the Barbican review: a loyal but innovative adaptation

The production wonderfully brings to life the dry comedy and compelling strangeness of the original text

Evening Standard

Private island in Queensland deserted by buyer put back on market for under $1m

A week out from settling sale, businessman who had signed contract and paid $5,000 deposit is nowhere to be found

The Guardian - AU

Biography of X by Catherine Lacey review – who is this mysterious artist?

An impressive and enchantingly strange novel plays with genre, identity and politics in an alternate America

The Guardian - UK

SoS head to Madrid as Craig Houston talks grassroots and Rangers legend Andy Goram

IT is an interview of just less than 30 minutes in a meeting of more than three hours. Four words from Craig Houston sum up his dedication and…

The National (Scotland)

Building good reading habits

Following the success of last year's event, the Publishers and Booksellers Association of Thailand (PUBAT) have brought the 51st edition of the National Book Fair back to Queen Sirikit National Convention Center from tomorrow until April 9, with extended hours until midnight on the first three days.

Bangkok Post

Man imprisoned for 16 years after being falsely accused of rape is awarded $5.5m in settlement

‘I hope and pray that others in my situation can achieve the same measure of justice. We all suffer from destroyed lives,’ Anthony Broadwater says

The Independent UK

FBI offers $10K reward for info on Roy McGrath, now an ‘international flight risk’

The FBI has determined Roy McGrath is an “international flight risk” and is offering a $10,000 reward for information about his whereabouts.

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Daisy Jones and the Six: Differences between the book and series, explained

Daisy Jones & The Six has a fair few differences between the book and series

Chicago Tribune

Author Bill Zehme, whose subjects included Sinatra, Hugh Hefner, Leno and Andy Kaufman, is dead at 64

CHICAGO — Name a star or celebrity of the last 40 years and it’s likely that person was the subject of Bill Zehme’s keen mind and artful writing, in such magazines as Rolling Stone, Playboy, Vanity Fair and Esquire, and in bestselling books in collaboration with Jay Leno and Regis…

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Grant Morrison shares plot details for the abandoned final volume of Seaguy

The Multiversity writer also addresses whether the series might one day return

Woman & Home

Is The Night Agent based on a book, and will there be a season 2?

Everything you need to know about the story behind The Night Agent, and whether there will be a second season of this hit show

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Irish Mirror

Children in Ireland to be allocated almost €100 each under newly announced scheme

The aim of this boost is to cover the cost of all school books, workbooks, and copybooks, in order to ease the pressure parents face each year

Evening Standard

‘Women writers aren’t credited with the same powers of intellect as men’

As our judging panel prepare to begin their search for this year’s Stories Competition winner, we catch up with two of the judges, best-selling authors Monica Ali and Beth O’Leary

The Guardian - UK

Points mean pages: why I’ve embraced the world of online reading challenges

I’ve set a goal of reading 50 books this year, and logging my progress is strangely satisfying. Some might not approve of turning reading into a game, but if it works for you, why not?

Daily Record

Harry and Meghan 'expected' to attend coronation as speculation mounts one could go solo

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle look set to attend the Coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla despite a widening rift in the Royal family - but William Hill reckon there is more chance of one going alone than the other

Evening Standard

Politicos are passing around copies of a steamy new Westminster novel

And: is Nadine Dorries writing some political fiction too?

The Independent UK

Man falsely jailed for 16 years over rape of writer Alice Sebold to get $5.5m compensation

‘We all suffer from destroyed lives’

The Guardian - UK

Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad review – drama in the West Bank

An actor returns to Palestine and joins a local production of Hamlet in this richly layered and elegant examination of memories and oppression

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