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All you need to know about Prince Harry's upcoming memoir

In 2021, Prince Harry had revealed that he was writing his tell-all memoir which is expected to come out in 2022.

The Times of India · Sep 16, 2022

White House Chief Of Staff Was Secretly Reading Book On Trump's Mental Health: Report

John Kelly, former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, consulted a book written about Trump’s mental health during his time in the White House, according to a new book being published next week and obtained by The Gua

Benzinga · Sep 16, 2022

These high school 'classics' have been taught for generations – could they be on their way out?

If you went to high school in the United States anytime since the 1960s, you were likely assigned some of the following books: Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” “Julius Caesar” and “Macbeth”; John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”; Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”; and…

The Conversation · Sep 16, 2022

All the Broken Places by John Boyne review – a sequel of sorts

The follow-up to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a powerful novel about secrets and atonement after Auschwitz

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2022

George Floyd biography among National Book Award nominees

A biography of the late George Floyd and poetry by Pulitzer Prize winner Sharon Olds were among the works included Thursday on long lists for the National Book Awards

The Independent UK · Sep 16, 2022

Anne Heche was working on another memoir before she died. It hits shelves next year

Anne Heche's second memoir, "Call Me Anne," will be released in January, months after she died from the injuries she sustained in a car crash in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Times · Sep 15, 2022

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 10, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan © 2022 NPD Group.

Tribune News Service · Sep 15, 2022

Marshmallow by Victoria Hannan review – a tender evocation of the trauma of losing a child

The Kokomo author’s second novel interrogates the bizarre realm of grief in a beautifully tuned story about inconsolable loss

The Guardian - AU · Sep 15, 2022

Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen criticises Simon Cowell and asks people to 'fly the freak flag'

Changing Rooms presenter Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has said he is worried about Simon Cowell's design ideas for his Cotswolds manor house and encourages people to embrace maximalism

Daily Mirror · Sep 15, 2022

‘Confess, Fletch’ review: Jon Hamm does not rise to the occasion as the jokily intrepid reporter unraveling a mystery

The crime novels of Gregory Mcdonald emerged in the ‘70s as a self-amused antithesis to more typically hard-boiled detective stories. The series began with “Fletch” in 1974 and continued a 20-year run, ending with “Fletch Reflected” in 1994. Irwin Maurice Fletcher (Fletch to everyone who knows him) is a shaggy…

Chicago Tribune · Sep 15, 2022