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‘There’s a savage beauty to the place’: the dark mystery of Ireland’s Connemara region

The setting for Kathleen MacMahon’s new novel, The Home Scar, is a haunting expanse of lakes, bogs, heathland and mountains in County Galway

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2023

Ex-prosecutor Mark Pomerantz accuses Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg of botching Trump investigation in new book, report says

NEW YORK — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office went on the offensive Friday, bracing for a new book by a former prosecutor who claims Bragg allowed his office’s criminal probe into Donald Trump to crash and burn.

Tribune News Service · Feb 3, 2023

Ex-prosecutor's new book details fight over indicting Trump

As the Manhattan district attorney’s office again ramps up its yearslong investigation of Donald Trump, a new book by a former prosecutor who once led the probe details just how close the former president came to getting indicted — and laments friction with the new D

The Independent UK · Feb 3, 2023

Meet the Co Tyrone mum with a passion for bringing young and old people together

Fey Cole is a lecturer at South West College in Dungannon specialising in working with early years children

Belfast Live · Feb 3, 2023

Amrita Rao and RJ Anmol on their book 'Couple of Things' : Our love story has so many juicy details that even a book is not enough - Exclusive

Amrita Rao surprised one and all when she tied the knot with popular radio jockey Anmol. Though the couple always kept their personal lives private, they shared their love story with their fans through videos on YouTube. Now, they are all set to turn it into a book titled, ‘Couple…

The Times of India · Feb 3, 2023

Wave of protest plays staged as UK theatres face closures and staff shortages

In several new productions, playwrights explore the cost of living crisis as their industry reels from funding cuts, cancellations and low wages

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2023

The best recent poetry – review roundup

Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi; The Hopeful Hat by Carole Satyamurti; Toys/Tricks/Traps by Christopher Reid; The Fourth Sister by Laura Scott

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2023

Free Love by Tessa Hadley audiobook review – female self-discovery

Actor Abigail Thaw narrates this intimate and gripping story of political and sexual awakening in middle-class suburbia

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2023

DeSantis has his own book-banning troops

Florida's GOP governor claims there's no war on reading — so why are there censorship troops?

Salon · Feb 3, 2023

Commentary: The video of Tyre Nichols’ murder is unbearable. But it shows why we need stories of both Black pain — and joy

The murder of Tyre Nichols and the individual and collective reckoning we have all encountered — whether or not to witness the brutal images of his final moments — sent me back to an issue that I’ve been wrestling with for two decades.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 3, 2023