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Holiday books: Fiction

“The Marriage Portrait,” by Maggie O’Farrell. (Knopf, $28.)

Tribune News Service

Poetry has a new editor — and now a new issue. It’s time to give a fresh look at this important Chicago magazine.

CHICAGO — The new editor of Poetry magazine, one of the city’s most important and influential publications, is Adrian Matejka, a great poet and a good guy.

Chicago Tribune

Holiday books: Nonfiction

“Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman,” edited by Alan Taylor. (Henry Holt, $32.)

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The 10 best books of 2022: A Mason-Dixon mission, ‘Rabbit Hutch’ and, oh yeah, Bob Dylan

It was a particularly good year for excellent books and 10 is way too few. In order of authors’ names:

Chicago Tribune

Review: 'War by Other Means,' by Daniel Akst

NONFICTION: The little-known story of pacifist activism during World War II, told through the lives of four people.

Tribune News Service

Review: 'A Dangerous Business,' by Jane Smiley

FICTION: Two Gold Rush-era working girls set out to solve some murders.

Tribune News Service

Harry Potter book could fetch £100,000 at auction after being found in loft

Chloe won the book 10 years ago

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5 new Christmas books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Snowed In For Christmas by Sarah Morgan and Jim’s Spectacular Christmas by Emma Thompson.

The Independent UK

Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy review – a slow-motion study of obliteration

The therapy sessions of a doomed maths genius – McCarthy’s first female protagonist in 50 years - make for a grim companion volume to The Passenger

The Guardian - UK

Northumberland's newest book and film festival set to host audience with Vera author Ann Cleeves and dinner with LJ Ross

The Alnwick Story Fest goes ahead in February 2023 with the aim of making it "the story town of the north" and there will be events in the Alnwick Castle and Alnwick Garden

Chronicle Live

‘Join the club’: Stephen King, Margaret Atwood and more reassure debut author after lonely book launch

Chelsea Banning tweeted about being ‘upset’ when only two friends showed up to her signing. Then some of the world’s biggest authors – and Flavor Flav – stepped in

The Guardian - AU

Madhya Pradesh orders arrest of author of controversial law book

INDORE: The Madhya Pradesh government ordered on Tuesday the arrest of Farhat Khan, whose book ‘Collective Violence and Criminal Justice System’ is the subject of a police probe, while she faces an FIR along with the Government Law College’s ex-principal Inamur Rahman, Prof Mirza Mojij and the publisher of the…

The Times of India

Meghan was a 'natural' but 'didn't understand' duty to Queen' - royal expert

Many royal experts have claimed that Meghan Markle did not fully understand her royal role and what was expected of her and that she struggled to "let go" of her American ideals

Irish Mirror

At the Table with Lynn Sweet

Lynn Sweet sat down with White House correspondent, April Ryan, to discuss her book, Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem. Plus, Republican strategist Eleni Demertzis; Democratic strategist Ron Holmes; WBEZ state politics reporter Dave McKinney and Sun-Times chief political reporter Tina…

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The Independent UK

Matt Hancock claims he worked from his children’s treehouse at height of Covid pandemic

Mr Hancock’s book is out just a week after he won £400k for coming third on I’m A Celebrity

Manchester Evening News

‘I hope this can help someone feel less alone’ – Elliot Page announces new memoir, Pageboy

The Umbrella Academy and Juno actor came out as a transgender man in 2020

The Independent UK

Neil Gaiman comforts debut author after two people show up to her book signing

‘I have sat lonely at a signing table many times only to have someone approach… and ask me where the bathroom is,’ commented author Jodi Picoult

Evening Standard

Salman Rushdie releases his first work since stabbing, an extract of his new novel

SALMAN Rushdie has released an extract from his new novel, his first new work since he was stabbed in the US this summer.

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Glasgow Live

The 12 venues in Glasgow every coffee fanatic needs to check out

These cafes have been named amongst Scotland's best in the Independent Coffee Guide 2022.

The Conversation

Swear words: we studied speakers of languages from Hindi to Hungarian to find out why obscenities sound the way they do

“Skalk,” I cursed in Kelvak. It’s my favourite language to curse in – there is nothing as satisfying as the harsh consonants and default imperatives of the primary Kelvaki language.

Evening Standard

Elliot Page shares release date of his new memoir, Pageboy

Page came out as a transgender man in December 2020

The Times of India

Some of my stories are actually my dreams: Ruskin Bond on his new book 'The Enchanted Cottage', writing, and more

The prolific writer from the hills, Ruskin Bond's new book 'The Enchanted Cottage' is out. "My new story book 'The Enchanted Cottage' is a long short story of mine and it has a supernatural element, a bit of philosophy-- not frightening but dramatic scenes. It is a ghost story, of…

The Guardian - UK

Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss review – portrait of the painter as a mystic

The Swedish abstract artist who conversed with the dead is described as a woman years ahead of her time in this scholarly, sympathetic study

Daily Mirror

Matt Hancock beams as he launches Pandemic Diaries book with girlfriend Gina Colangelo

The former Conservative Health Secretary attended the launch event for his new book, Pandemic Diaries, a memoir of his experiences during the coronavirus pandemic

Chicago Sun-Times

‘You fall, you get up, you carry on’: Michelle Obama shares tools she learned from her father promoting new book at Chicago Theatre

Former First Lady Michelle Obama discusses her book “The Light We Carry” and coping with the pandemic and polarization before a sold-out crowd at Chicago Theatre.

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