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Secrets of the Dick Francis mysteries

The horse-racing themed thrillers have lasted 60 years, thanks to the efforts of a talented lineage

Salon

Melvin Burgess: ‘The Norse myths are full of sex and violence’

The author of YA classic Junk on the eternal allure of baddies, being a trickster god – and his first book for adults

The Guardian - UK

TV star-turned-author Susannah Constantine to discuss memoirs with Kay Adams at Lanarkshire Bookface group meeting

There will be a 45-minute chat and Q&A session as well as the chance to choose from 400 books during 'sustainable swap'

Daily Record

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The Other Side of Prospect review: murder and injustice in New Haven

In telling the story of a monstrous Connecticut injustice, Nicholas Dawidoff achieves a novelistic power and intensity

The Guardian - US

We’ve never needed working-class stories like Shuggie Bain more

Douglas Stuart is adapting his Booker Prize-winning novel, set in a Glasgow scarred by Thatcherism, for the BBC. Thank heavens for that – the diet of wealth-obssessed TV like ‘The White Lotus’ and ‘The Crown’ is out of step with life in our cash-squeezed age, writes Jessie Thompson

The Independent UK

Cristiano Ronaldo is emulating Manchester United legend with controversial strategy

Man Utd are working with lawyers after Cristiano Ronaldo's explosive interview with Piers Morgan was released in full.

Manchester Evening News

Pinocchio review – a truly bold take on Carlo Collodi’s classic

Mosquitos, cats and smartly defined morals feature in a complex and well-crafted reimagining of the beloved tale

The Guardian - UK

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Biography of poet John Donne wins UK nonfiction book prize

A book that argues Elizabethan poet John Donne should rank alongside William Shakespeare as a literary genius has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book award

The Independent UK

Federal judge orders schools in Ga. county to allow profanity at meetings

ATLANTA — People who speak at school board meetings in Forsyth County can swear at board members but must keep it smut-free.

Tribune News Service

‘Taking life advice from John Donne would be disastrous’ – the roof-walking, trapeze-flying Baillie Gifford winner

Katherine Rundell has just become the youngest ever winner of the prestigious literary prize – for a biography of ‘poet of desire’ John Donne. Why is she giving the £50,000 away? Because, she says, no man is an island

The Guardian - UK

Karla Peterson: The FX adaptation of 'Fleishman Is in Trouble' will test your patience and reward it, too

Near the end of FX's TV adaptation of "Fleishman Is in Trouble," after the upscale lives of its privileged main characters have emerged from their slow-motion implosion, one character tells another character about the book she might write about the whole mess.

Tribune News Service

Where to start with: Marcel Proust

One hundred years after the French writer’s death, translator Lucy Raitz suggests some good ways into his work

The Guardian - UK

France's national library celebrates Proust 100 years after his death

France's Marcel Proust, who died 100 years ago this week, is regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time. To mark the anniversary, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France is hosting a major exhibition in Paris, where some of the secrets of Proust's 2,400-page novel "In Search of Lost…

Radio France Internationale

Scott Burns: Want to feel good about America? Take a look at the worldwide stock market

I’m sitting under the thatched roof at Austin’s Hula Hut restaurant. The day could not be better. The Hula Hut is perched over the water, upstream from Lady Bird Lake. It’s far from the traffic noise of downtown Austin, bathed in what must be generations of laidback light.

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Daily Mirror

'My aunt's death changed my life - I turned my life upside down'

Author Sarah Miller, who wrote 'Permission to be F***ing Happy' turned her life upside down and found happiness, after an unexpected death spurred her on

The Guardian - AU

Readers are hungry for stories about trauma. But what happens to the authors?

A scan of recent Australian memoirs suggests an appetite for stories about pain. But after telling their story, writers have to sell it – and that can come at a cost

Miami Herald

The Week Ahead: Writing the story of the important holiday spending season for investors

As he was starting his literary career, Charles Dickens was a journalist. Alas, he was not a business reporter — that would have been too appropriate for the son of a debtors’ prison inmate.

The Conversation

Why I teach a course connecting Taylor Swift's songs to the works of Shakespeare, Hitchcock and Plath

Unusual Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

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The Times of India

Delhi HC grants time to former hockey coach to file response to pleas against book publication

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Friday granted time to former Indian hockey team coach Sjoerd Marijne to file his response to lawsuits by two players and Hockey India against publication of his book.

The National (Scotland)

Edinburgh Book Festival to axe staff in 'heartbreaking' move

JOBS at what is thought to be the world's biggest books festival will be cut in a "heatbreaking" move caused by bleak economic conditions…

The Guardian - UK

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Book of the Most Precious Substance by Sara Gran; A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny; This Train by James Grady; Urgent Matters by Paula Rodríguez; Dalziel and Pascoe Hunt the Christmas Killer & Other Stories by Reginald Hill

Evening Standard

Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition winners meet Camilla and visit Standard’s new office

Buckingham Palace has hosted a reception for the winners of a global writing competition - who also enjoyed a tour of the Evening Standard’s new office.

The Independent UK

Book festival to scale back and cut jobs amid challenging economic climate

The Edinburgh International Book Festival has begun redundancy talks with 32 full-time staff.

Daily Mirror

Erotic book by Boris Johnson's former aide 'will feature sex scenes in Commons offices'

Cleo Watson, who served as Mr Johnson's head of Priorities and Campaigns until last year, is set to publish her first novel - which pals have likened to 50 Shades of Grey - in May

The Times of India

Prakash Jha and Ratan Jain to make film on Sunanda Pushkar book - Exclusive

Venus Films and Prakash Jha have come together to make a film on the late businesswoman and Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar. The film is based on a best seller titled Extraordinary Life and Death of Sunanda Pushkar written by Sunanda Mehta.

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