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Nurse! My pen! Hanif Kureishi’s hospital musings and the art of sickbed writing

The author has published 10,000 words since being left paralysed – about the able-bodied, sexual positions and racist taunts. From Hilary Mantel to Audre Lorde, we look at how illness changes a writer

The Guardian - UK

The British monarchy has always controlled how much we see of it, but Charles III could change that

The late author Hilary Mantel once wrote of Queen Elizabeth II that she was “a thing that existed to be looked at”. This became even truer in death.

The Conversation

Celebrities we lost in 2022 including Robbie Coltrane, Meat Loaf, Olivia Newton-John and June Brown

This year we sadly said goodbye to The Wanted star Tom Parker, BBC Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull, The Railway Children's Bernard Cribbins, and many more

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Hilary Mantel remembered by Ben Miles

6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022The actor, who played Thomas Cromwell in the stage adaptations of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, on the writer whose genius was matched by her openness

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How the pandemic affected our approach to reading and interpretation of books

During the pandemic, reading took on new meaning. People turned to books for comfort. Some read to confront difficult issues, especially following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Others used reading as a way to care for their children in locked-down houses.

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‘Taking life advice from John Donne would be disastrous’ – the roof-walking, trapeze-flying Baillie Gifford winner

Katherine Rundell has just become the youngest ever winner of the prestigious literary prize – for a biography of ‘poet of desire’ John Donne. Why is she giving the £50,000 away? Because, she says, no man is an island

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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall: From Outcast to Future Queen Consort by Angela Levin review – yin to the King’s yang

Sycophantic, out of date and barely researched, this biography inadvertently reveals King Charles’s second wife to be a woman of little substance

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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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Judi Dench is right about The Crown: the truth counts. But it’s not everything

The actress suggested that the drama should carry a health warning about its imperfect connection to reality

The Guardian - UK

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize

London (AFP) - Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka on Monday won Britain's Booker Prize for fiction for his work "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida", about a journalist murdered amid the country's sectarian strife.

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Oldest author in contention as UK's Booker prize returns in full

London (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Britain's Booker Prize for fiction on Monday holds its first large-scale awards ceremony since 2019 with six novels in the running -- including the oldest author yet nominated, and the shortest book.

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Letters: the Russian people can’t throw off their tsarist yoke

Putin’s position may be weak but his citizens won’t push back against him as they have no democratic tradition

The Guardian - UK

Hilary Mantel: Celebrated author of Wolf Hall trilogy

Novelist was the first British writer – and the first woman – to win the Booker Prize twice

The Independent UK

A new series immerses us in Russia’s 90s trauma – and the human cost of economic shock

Adam Curtis’s BBC project, TraumaZone, show us extraordinary events though the eyes of ordinary people, and how ideologues betrayed them, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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‘When is it OK to start blowing things up?’ Mark Rylance on families, Hilary Mantel and climate disaster

The actor discusses his new drama at the London film festival, being starstruck by Meryl Streep – and the best way to take environmental action

The Guardian - UK

A nurse, a rogue, a Pharoah and a space mission – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia plus a few jokes every Thursday – how will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

We must keep the rituals that bind us – not blind us

Letters: Readers respond to Nesrine Malik’s article about the mysticism of royalty, and how pageantry is designed to engineer consent, even awe, for an unequal system

Evening Standard

If we’re clever we can make public services work with less money

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” That’s what I used to say to my team when we tried to get my company Second Home through the hellish global pandemic.

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Hilary Mantel wrote me kind notes that I felt deliriously teased by

I met Hilary Mantel in 2013 in Clapham. She was working with the Royal Shakespeare Company to turn Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies into plays.

The Independent UK

Hilary Mantel’s prediction about Prince George and the royal family

Author said in an interview last year that it was ‘hard to understand the thinking behind the monarchy in the modern world’

The Guardian - UK

Hilary Mantel knew how corrosive deference to monarchy can be – and why we must resist

Let us mark this year of royal death and accession by challenging the notion that a man with a crown is more important than everyone else, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - UK

The remarkable generosity of Hilary Mantel will not be forgotten

Letters: Lucie Bea Dutton on the messages of encouragement the writer gave her, and another author on the blurb quotation she provided for a book

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Hilary Mantel was one of the great voices of historical fiction, and so much more

The shining stream of writing from Hilary Mantel has come to an end. But we are left with a rich body of writing to relish and revisit.

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Catherine, Princess of Wales, follows in footsteps of mother-in-law Diana as she takes on a title with baggage

There hasn't been a Princess of Wales since Diana's death in a car crash in 1997 and Catherine would be well aware of the significance it holds — for the family, and the British public.

The Guardian - UK

I’ll always treasure my last meeting with Hilary Mantel

A Guardian interview earlier this month with the late author of the Wolf Hall trilogy was one to be forever grateful for, says its writer

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