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Al-Qaeda Releases Book Detailing How it Carried Out 9/11 Attacks

The Al-Qaeda terrorist network on Sunday released a book written by a senior member including a detailed timeline leading up to the attacks on several US airliners on September 11, 2001 which left nearly 3,000 people dead in three locations. Marking the 21st anniversary of the attacks, the book was…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 12, 2022

Ducks by Kate Beaton review – bad boys from the blackstuff

Beaton’s melancholic and humane memoir records her bleak time under the male gaze in Canada’s oil sands

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2022

Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux review – adrift in desire

The French writer’s record of an obsessive affair with a Russian diplomat is a riveting, sexually frank study of a woman in the throes of love and lust

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2022

Spanish novelist and columnist Javier Marias dies aged 70

Award-winning Spanish novelist Javier Marias died on Sunday aged 70, his publisher Alfaguara said.

Reuters · Sep 11, 2022

In brief: Love Untold; The Modern Bestiary; The Red Planet – review

Ruth Jones’s Welsh generational saga, Joanna Bagniewska’s real-life fantastic beasts and Simon Morden’s Mars exploration

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2022

"Everyone should get our own 'Predator'"

Salon talked with Ander Monson, author of the new memoir "Predator," about the 1987 film, "Prey" and America

Salon · Sep 11, 2022

Forever Home by Graham Norton review – effortlessly readable

The fourth novel by the chatshow host is a darkly comic Irish domestic drama that has emotional depth but is undemanding

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2022

Rare signed edition of The Catcher in the Rye on sale for £225,000

JD Salinger did not want his friends cashing in, so inscribed copy of classic novel is one of the hardest titles for collectors to acquire

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2022

Amy Huberman says herself and Brian O'Driscoll prefer Netflix nights in to showbiz parties

The 43-year-old also opened up on losing her dad earlier this year

Dublin Live · Sep 11, 2022

Poppy Starr Olsen skates onto new page-turner

Newcastle skateboard legend Poppy Starr Olsen has combined forces with award-winning Newcastle children's book author Jess Black on a new book, The Colourful World of Poppy Starr Olsen.

Newcastle Herald · Sep 10, 2022