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The journey continues for Lanarkshire author with launch of latest book

Businessman Paul Veverka is looking forward to his book launch this weekend.

Daily Record · Nov 20, 2022

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama review – a guide for life from the former first lady

Obama’s ‘disarmingly honest’ follow-up to the powerful autobiography Becoming shares her strategies for overcoming adversity

The Guardian - UK · Nov 20, 2022

Lanarkshire author releases memoir taking her from Shotts to Costa del Sol

Lazara Canton also described how she learned to see her tragic circumstances as opportunities to turn her life around.

Daily Record · Nov 20, 2022

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Kyiv's mayor: Extraordinary, in extraordinarily tough times

Once a boxing champion, Kyiv's mayor is up against a challenge bigger than any he faced in the ring: keeping Ukraine’s capital functioning during a war

The Independent UK · Nov 20, 2022

The writers using literature to help change story of the climate crisis

A SAINT Andrew’s Day event is to look at the light literature can shed on the current climate crisis.

The National (Scotland) · Nov 20, 2022

Upcoming centenary of Christopher Murray Grieve's first work deserves recognition

NEXT year – 2023 – will mark a century since the publication of Christopher Murray Grieve’s first book, Annals of the Five Senses.

The National (Scotland) · Nov 20, 2022

Stand-out young adult romance is hilarious tale of blossoming love in Indonesia

Well, That Was Unexpected by Jesse Q Sutanto

The National (Scotland) · Nov 20, 2022

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One deadly, humid day that changed Australia's Vietnam War

The bloody Battle of Long Tan continues to resonate.

Newcastle Herald · Nov 20, 2022

Secrets of the Dick Francis mysteries

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

Salon · Nov 19, 2022

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 · Nov 19, 2022

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 · Nov 19, 2022

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 · Nov 19, 2022

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 · Nov 19, 2022

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 · Nov 19, 2022

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The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2022

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 Independent UK · Nov 18, 2022

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

Tribune News Service · Nov 18, 2022

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.

The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2022

‘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

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Tribune News Service · Nov 18, 2022

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.

The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2022

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

Radio France Internationale · Nov 18, 2022

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…

Tribune News Service · Nov 18, 2022

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.

Daily Mirror · Nov 18, 2022

'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 · Nov 18, 2022

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 · Nov 18, 2022

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.

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