The Latest Breaking News on Books

Prince Harry’s Spare is fastest-selling nonfiction book since UK records began

First week of the controversial memoir’s sales breaks official UK records reports Nielsen, Guinness World Records and Waterstones

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2023

French journalists in court over alleged blackmail of Moroccan king

Two French journalists have gone on trial in France on charges of trying to blackmail the king of Morocco – allegedly demanding money to hush purportedly damaging revelations about him.

Radio France Internationale · Jan 17, 2023

Balladz by Sharon Olds review – insights and elegies

From pandemic poems to homages to Emily Dickinson, the American poet’s new work is intimate and heart-stirring

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2023

How paranoia consumed the GOP

Author Jared Yates Sexton places Trumpism in a dark lineage of history, but holds out hope things can get better

Salon · Jan 17, 2023

Commentary: A critic does therapy with Phil Stutz, go-to shrink for Jonah Hill and other stars

LOS ANGELES — On a recent morning, while making what I prayed would be a quick run to Target, I received a call from the assistant of Phil Stutz, letting me know that the doctor would be able to see me at 4 p.m. that afternoon.

Los Angeles Times · Jan 17, 2023

Akenfield author Ronald Blythe ‘could not form lasting relationship’ because of anti-gay laws

Blythe was ‘deemed a criminal’ until the age or 45 – when homosexuality became legal – says his biographer Ian Collins

The Independent UK · Jan 17, 2023

Peter Andre 'boycotting' Prince Harry book and slams him for 'throwing family under the bus'

The Duke Of Sussex's new non-fiction book, Spare, has caused quite a stir with the claims made about his family

Daily Mirror · Jan 17, 2023

Letters of Kamel Shayaa in Exile, about Exile

Dar Al Mada publishing is set to release the “Notebook of Exile between Hotel and Home”, a new book that includes the letters slain writer Kamel Shayaa wrote to his brother, film critic Faisal Abdullah. Shayaa was assassinated in 2008 by unknown armed men. The letters, which “form a journal…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 17, 2023

‘Queen’ is UK children’s word of the year for 2022

Almost half of the children surveyed by Oxford University Press chose ‘Queen’ as their top word, with ‘happy’ and ‘chaos’ in second and third place

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2023

A Welsh dad's cookbook has become the 'air fryer bible'

David Small starting experimenting with recipes during lockdown

Wales Online · Jan 16, 2023