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'I went on a Halloween ghost hunt at a haunted Scottish mansion - and spooky things happened'

Ahead of Halloween, Sean Murphy joined the Scottish Ghost Company on one of their regular events around the country and it was stranger and more intriguing than he could have imagined.

Daily Record

Goldsmiths prize shortlist features a first: twin-authored novel Diego Garcia

Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams’ ‘extraordinary’ work sits alongside a field of creatively ambitious writing that finds new ways of telling stories

The Guardian - UK

‘A masterpiece’: why Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book is as relevant as ever at 50

She might be better known as the creator of the Moomins but the Finnish author’s tender hymn to nature and tolerance is as relevant today as it was a half-century ago

The Guardian - UK

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Rathbones Folio prize ‘refreshing format’ to expand to three categories

Winners for fiction, nonfiction and poetry will each receive £2,000 and then compete for the overall £30,000 award

The Guardian - UK

Orwell Festival: The books to help you understand politics chosen by Dominic Cummings, Rebecca Solnit and more

Top thinkers appearing at the festival have picked out the best of political writing that might just make things seem a bit less mad

Evening Standard

Books by women that every man should read: chosen by Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Richard Curtis and more

Studies show men avoid female authors. Ahead of the Women’s prize for fiction, chair of judges Mary Ann Sieghart finds out why – and we ask male authors to redress the balance

The Guardian - UK

Emma Smith: ‘Books do extraordinary work, but we can overstate their importance’

The Shakespeare critic and author on her new history of books and readers, and how it’s made her think about the contents of our shelves

The Guardian - UK

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Companion Piece by Ali Smith review – a lockdown story of wayward genius

Lyrical visions alternate with fables and farce, history with Covid, in the scheme-busting fifth part of Smith’s seasonal quartet

The Guardian - UK

Companion Piece by Ali Smith review – scintillating tales across the centuries

Parallels are drawn between our age and the time of the Black Death in this beautiful, mysterious novel

The Guardian - UK

‘I planted seeds’: Timothée Chalamet’s mother on her children’s success

Nicole Flender talks attending New York’s fame school; living in Manhattan Plaza and supporting her children’s careers

The Guardian - US

Top 10 novels inspired by Greek myths

From James Joyce to Ali Smith and Chigozie Obioma, the archetypal stories of the ancients have inspired some of our best fiction

The Guardian - UK

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