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Crux by Gabriel Tallent review – a passionate portrait of teenage climbers

The follow-up to My Absolute Darling, this tale of best friends who dream of a better life features exquisite sports writing and a lovable heroine – but the plotting is unconvincing

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Palestinian author to appear at rebel literary event

Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah will appear at a last-minute alternative to the now-cancelled Adelaide Writers' Week.

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Author 'gobsmacked' by peak body funding crisis

A peak body for writers may have to close after missing out on state government funding, and one author says she's "gobsmacked" by the situation.

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Brandon Sanderson Responds To Fans Worried He’ll Pull A George R.R. Martin With Mistborn And Stormlight Archive Adaptations

Here's what things stand.

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The Rat Trap at the Park Theatre: a must-see for Noel Coward completists

3/5 Bill Rosenfield has finessed Noel Coward’s teenage play, where radical social ideas bubble beneath brittle humour

Evening Standard

Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’, to publish book from prison

Unbroken: In Pursuit of Freedom for Palestine is a collection of writings by the Palestinian political leader, who has been held in Israeli prisons since 2002

The Guardian - UK

J.K. Rowling Breaks Her Silence On Jeffrey Epstein Accusations

J.K. Rowling responded to a message that said she was “sending invitations” to Jeffrey Epstein “10 years after he was convicted.”

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Jilly Cooper made everyone feel special – and her memorial was the perfect tribute

It featured the queen, Rupert Everett and horses paying their respects, amid a combination of romance, absurdity and delight at Southwark Cathedral last week, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

White River Crossing by Ian McGuire review – colonial greed drives a doomed hunt for gold

The author of The North Water vividly captures bleak beauty and brutish appetites on an 18th-century expedition into the frozen wilds of Canada

The Guardian - UK

The Good Society by Kate Pickett review – the Spirit Level author takes stock

A whistle-stop tour of the greatest hits of progressive policy fails to take account of a central conundrum

The Guardian - UK

From moorland to Margot: what 179 years of Wuthering Heights covers can teach designers today

Experts discuss what we can learn.

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Debunking the myth of the toxic ‘Infinite Jest bro’

COMMENT: Thirty years after publication, David Foster Wallace’s 1996 opus remains a seismic literary achievement, writes Louis Chilton. Anyone complaining about its readership is fixating on the wrong thing

The Independent UK

Stormzy calls reading a ‘superpower’ as he backs accessible books campaign

The musician is championing the annual Quick Reads initiative, which will release six short, digestible titles for ‘nonreaders and lapsed readers’ in April for £1 each

The Guardian - UK

Neil Gaiman claims sexual assault allegations are result of ‘smear campaign’

Author says accusations ‘spread and amplified’ by people more interested in ‘outrage and getting clicks’

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The "Sudden, Appalling, and Unexpected Tragedy" That Pushed Queen Elizabeth II Into a New "Era"

"The overwrought crowds had wanted more of the monarch, not less," one historian shared.

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One Royal's Parents Thought Her Spouse Was "Rough, Ill-Mannered," and Would "Probably" Cheat on Her

They allegedly called him "uneducated."

Marie Claire

Royal Author Says Queen Elizabeth "Was the Keeper of Many Secrets" and She Disliked "Emotional Incontinence"

"She never leaked."

The Independent UK

XJ Kennedy, prize-winning poet and educator, dies at 96

Award-winning poet, author, translator and educator X

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Queen Elizabeth "Never Saw Herself as a Celebrity" and Once Suggested She Spent Too Much "Time Conversing With Total Strangers"

"She did not care what other people thought about her," one royal historian revealed.

The Guardian - UK

Diane Munday obituary

Pioneering abortion campaigner whose beliefs were underpinned by humanism

Marie Claire

One Hobby Gave Queen Elizabeth "Another Life" and Distracted Her From the "Pressures and Demands" of Being the Monarch, Says Royal Historian

"She could behave with them in ways that were not allowed in public."

The Guardian - AU

Inside the idyllic studio of Alison Lester: ‘Everything I do looks a bit like a stuffed toy’

The doyenne of Australian picture books talks about her creative process, the ‘wild and woolly’ place that inspired Magic Beach – and how a favourite idea was sketched on an aeroplane sick bag

Woman & Home

‘If I gave up work, what would I do?’ – Kathy Lette says she's not ready to retire yet

'At 66, I don’t feel I’ve passed my amuse-by date' says woman&home's witty columnist

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Rahul Gandhi stopped from reading out Caravan article in Parliament

The Lok Sabha ground to a halt on Monday after Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi attempted to read out a Caravan article that cited an as-yet-unpublished book by former Army chief General Manoj Naravane.

The Guardian - UK

Rebel English Academy by Mohammed Hanif review – a sure-fire Booker contender

This funny and subversive novel reckons with life under martial law in late-70s Pakistan

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