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William Boyd will never win the Nobel ... but it’s not because he wants for talent

READING a William Boyd book is like devouring a Willard Price adventure for adults. Willard who? Bear with me: this is high praise. Price…

The National (Scotland)

Malorie Blackman: ‘Thank God that’s done!’

The former children’s laureate on the end of the Noughts & Crosses series, why her memoir is the hardest book she’s written, and her soft spot for murder detective games

The Guardian - UK

'Don't Look Back': Refugee, plant worker writes of survival

When hundreds of Achut Deng's colleagues at a South Dakota meatpacking plant were sickened by COVID-19, Deng spoke out to tell of the fear gripping the Sioux Falls workforce

The Independent UK

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‘Girlhood,’ Interrupted

In a new memoir, a mother recounts the trauma of being investigated for supporting her transgender daughter.

Texas Observer

Peter Robinson obituary

Author of the Inspector Alan Banks series and welcome presence at crime fiction festivals around the world

The Guardian - UK

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer; Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths; Queen High by CJ Carey; Blue Water by Leonora Nattrass; Silverweed Road by Simon Crook

The Guardian - UK

Asbestos victims share stories of substance's devastating impact in new book

VICTIMS of asbestos-related disease have shared their stories in a new book to highlight the devastating impact of the toxic substance.

The National (Scotland)

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The Guardian view on Goodnight Moon: a classic for a reason

Editorial: Margaret Wise Brown made a point of listening to children, and trying to see the world as they saw it. She has been rewarded by decades of loyalty

The Guardian - UK

Kerry Katona says late husband was obsessed with black magic and put spells on her

In her new book Whole Again: Love, Life and Me, Kerry Katona opens up about living with her late husband George Kay, who died in 2019 following a drug overdose

Daily Mirror

Review: The Color Purple at The Lowry Salford

If you want to feel uplifted, inspired and thoroughly entertained then this production won't disappoint

Manchester Evening News

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë and the truth about the 'real-life Heathcliff'

When Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, outraged Victorian critics deemed it savage, indecent and immoral. One described it as “a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors”.

The Conversation

Policy of secrecy leaves authors with ‘no inkling’ works are being set for NSW’s year 12 exams

Delia Falconer and Nikki Gemmell latest writers to find out their works were selected for the HSC – after the exams

The Guardian - AU

George Saunders: ‘This capitalism thing has got limits’

After winning the Booker Prize for debut novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’, the author returns to the short-story form with new collection ‘Liberation Day’. He talks to Kevin E G Perry about his fascination with Custer’s Last Stand, what John Steinbeck taught him about socialism and learning to embrace uncertainty

The Independent UK

Is Netflix’s Luckiest Girl Alive based on a true story?

The number one film on the streamer follows Mila Kunis as a writer who experienced a school shooting as a teenager

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Minka Kelly memoir 'Tell Me Everything' coming out May 2023

Minka Kelly wants her fans to know that her life is not just a story of success

Newsroom.co.nz

In praise of middlebrow women's fiction

Catherine Robertson on novels women want to read (and write)

The Conversation

Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the 'unauthorized' biography

“The agents of reticence,” wrote the English poet Ian Hamilton in “Keepers of the Flame,” “have no truck with the agents of disclosure.”

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 road novels

Quests across continents, journeys into the past, family holiday disasters or wild dreams of a new life – here are your escape routes

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How to read The Wheel of Time books in order

Here's how you can read the Wheel of Time books in order as the fantasy series has landed on Prime Video.

The Guardian - UK

Trainspotting Live review – ferocious drama plunges you into world of Irvine Welsh

An exhilarating production shifts Renton, Sick Boy and pals into the acid house era – and is even more visceral than the book

Tribune News Service

In Celeste Ng's dark new novel 'Our Missing Hearts,' libraries shine a light

Celeste Ng wishes she could call it a dystopia. That's how she used to think about the dark world she was crafting in her new novel, "Our Missing Hearts."

Tribune News Service

Review: 'Departure Stories': A moving memoir by a Minnesota native about her complicated childhood, and her complicated mother

In the acknowledgments of her thoughtful and moving memoir, "Departure Stories," Elisa Bernick thanks a mentor who counseled her not to turn her story into a novel. Readers, too, will want to thank this person, because the originality of the approach taken here is a big part of the book's…

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Review: 'Dinosaurs': A trust-fund orphan tries to do good in a world out of whack, from the finalist for the 2020 National Book Award

I heard Lydia Millet asked once, in an interview, why she'd left the literary world of New York, where she clearly thrived, and she said that it was too easy to be mean there, and she'd rather be nice — or words to that effect. And niceness is not generally…

The Orange County Register

‘L.A. Weather’ author María Amparo Escandón wants to upend Latino stereotypes

LOS ANGELES -- Never mind these autumn temperatures: Call this the spring of María Amparo Escandón’s novel, “L.A. Weather.”

The Guardian - US

‘Never seen anything like it’: how Colleen Hoover’s normcore thrillers made her America’s bestselling author

‘CoHo’ began as a self-published writer. Now she’s sold 20m books worldwide – and has legions of TikTok fans

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