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Spandau Ballet’s Martin Kemp has written a novel about a 1980s pop star

The musician and former EastEnders star’s debut novel is due out this winter.

The Independent UK · May 19, 2023

The Imposters by Tom Rachman review – novelists writ large

The story of Dora, an ageing writer, is told in observant fragments that form a ‘punishing self-portrait’

The Guardian - UK · May 19, 2023

Salman Rushdie accepts PEN America award in first appearance since stabbing

Salman Rushdie made an emotional and unexpected return to public life Thursday night, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event’s final speech as he accepted a special prize, the PEN Centenary Courage Award, just nine months being after being stabbed repeatedly and hospitalized.

France 24 · May 19, 2023

Utah kids' book author accused in husband's death changed life insurance policies, prosecutors say

Updated charging documents say a Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband’s death and was later arrested for killing him had made changes to her husband’s life insurance years before when she is accused of fatally poisoning him

The Independent UK · May 19, 2023

Bleak Expectations at the Criterion Theatre review: mediocre Dickens parody chunters along

To borrow one of the show’s parodic lines: please sir, could we have some less

Evening Standard · May 18, 2023

GCSE students say 100-year 'error' in history exam question put them off

An exam board has apologised after pupils said the hundred-year difference was fundamental to understanding the question

Wales Online · May 18, 2023

Harry Potter superfan who has model Hogwarts in her garden admits she's 'not as big a fan' anymore

Megan Mackin was so obsessed with the books as a child, her dad built the impressive structure at their home

Belfast Live · May 18, 2023

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 13, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2023 Circana.

Tribune News Service · May 18, 2023

South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world. Are the social issues impacting women to blame?

The South Korean government is offering cash incentives to boost its record low fertility rate. But these experts say it ignores the real issues.

ABC News · May 18, 2023

Jill Longmate obituary

Other lives: Writer who chronicled the lives of contemporary lesbians

The Guardian - UK · May 18, 2023