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Newsroom Confidential review: Margaret Sullivan’s timely tale of the Times and the Post

The public editor and media columnist is fascinating and unsparing, particularly about the Times’s Trump-Clinton fiasco

The Guardian - US · Oct 16, 2022

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) · Oct 16, 2022

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 · Oct 15, 2022

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) · Oct 14, 2022

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 · Oct 13, 2022

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 · Oct 13, 2022

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 · Oct 13, 2022

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 · Oct 13, 2022

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 · Oct 13, 2022

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 · Oct 13, 2022