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The ultimate summer reading list: 15 novels about love, lust and sex to devour

From classic romance to steamy romps to lust and power, your beach reads are sorted courtesy of Guardian Australia’s staff and critics

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The 25 Best Rom-Coms of the 2000s

These movies have meet-cutes and witty banter galore.

Marie Claire

Miss Austen: US release date, full season guide: plot, cast, interview and more

Miss Austen is a lavish period drama starring Keeley Hawes and Rose Leslie.

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The Guardian view on marginalia: scribbles that can change the meaning of books

Editorial: From Jane Austen’s austere lines to Marlene Dietrich’s outraged scrawl, the annotations of readers can increase the value of what what they read

The Guardian - UK

Friday essay: can marriage be feminist? – a 'hopeless romantic' says no, but a same-sex newlywed says yes

Early in my career as a gender studies scholar, I was asked to give some “expert” commentary on whether it was possible to have a “feminist” wedding. Without any specific research or personal expertise – never a real barrier in dial-a-quote land – I insisted of course it was possible.…

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Jane Austen’s own copy of Curiosities of Literature to go up for auction

Described as ‘a remarkable piece of history’, the copy of Isaac D’Israeli’s essays collection is one of 20 books the author is known to have owned, and features her own underlinings and annotations

The Guardian - UK

Hampshire villagers bring street’s apostrophe catastrophe to a full stop

St Mary’s Terrace in Twyford has regained its lost punctuation after a row that even drew in local author Jane Austen

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Friday essay: how women writers helped me find my voice after divorce

When my 25-year marriage broke down in 2017, I did what I always do in my life, especially in times of crisis. I turned to books. Specifically, to books by women.

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A Memoir of My Former Self: Hilary Mantel's final book is a reminder of the many stories she still had to tell

In A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing, Hilary Mantel writes: “There is no failed writing, only work pending.” She’s referring to the 97 notebooks that she kept in a wooden box. Mantel promised: “There is nothing I won’t say, only what I haven’t said yet.”

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The best period dramas on Netflix to watch now

Add the best period dramas on Netflix to your watch list, from groovy 60s-set series like Queen's Gambit to beloved Regency-era movies like Pride & Prejudice

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I thought I'd pass along excerpts from the opinions concurring and dissenting as to the Michigan Supreme Court's pronouns order; recall that the order itself provides: Parties and attorneys may also include Ms., Mr., or Mx. as a preferred form of address and one of the following personal pronouns in…

Reason

Ian McKellen criticises use of ‘ludicrous’ theatre trigger warnings on his own play

Legendary actor, 84, is currently starring in ‘Frank and Percy’ at The Other Palace

The Independent UK

Laurence Fox: How a TV journeyman from an acting dynasty became the hard right’s resident contrarian

A member of the Fox acting clan once best known for his cosy role as a TV detective, Laurence Fox has swapped ITV for GB News and become an ‘anti-woke’ outrage merchant. How did he get here, asks Katie Rosseinsky?

The Independent UK

Bid $80,000 for Jane Austen

First edition masterpieces are up for grabs this week at an antiquarian book auction

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How BookTok trends are influencing what you read – whether you use TikTok or not

If you’ve been in a bookshop recently, you may have seen references to BookTok – whether it’s stickers on books or whole tables dedicated to “BookTok favourites”.

The Guardian - UK

Welsh mansion that inspired Wordsworth and Coleridge on the verge of collapse

Piercefield House, a Grade II-listed mansion that may have been the prototype for Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, is now ‘seriously distressed’

The Independent UK

40 best books to read before you die, from Great Expectations to Wolf Hall

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

The Conversation

Philologists, pedants and obsessives: how crowd-sourcing created the Oxford English Dictionary

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes who Created the Oxford English Dictionary is a celebration of words and word-people: authors, editors, publishers, linguists, lexicographers, philologists, obsessives, pedants. Its author, Sarah Ogilvie, was formerly an Oxford English Dictionary editor and wrote the 2013 book Words of the World: A Global History…

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The Guardian - UK

‘Provocative’ new book to showcase four decades of Hilary Mantel’s work

The wide-ranging collection A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing features subjects from her health struggles to Robocop and has been announced a year after the author’s death

The Canberra Times

See the prequel to Pride and Prejudice

Australian playwright Emma Wood imagines how things happened.

Cinemablend

8 Anne Hathaway Romantic Dramas, Ranked

Anne Hathaway's romantic dramas are some of her best. Let's look at a few and rank them from worst to best.

Marie Claire

Cher, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mila Kunis, and More Celebs' Homes You Can Actually Rent

Should we all go in on a weekend at Leo’s place?

The Independent UK

20 Netflix shows and movies that critics hated, from Emily in Paris to Secret Obsession

If you’re in the mood to hate-watch movies and TV shows – you’ve come to the right place

The Independent UK

20 Netflix shows and movies that critics hated, from Emily in Paris to Secret Obsession

If you’re in the mood to hate-watch movies and TV shows – you’ve come to the right place

Evening Standard

Sanditon series 3 ‘has nothing do to with Jane Austen’, says expert

‘Heteronormative’ author would never have written a gay love story, claims Professor

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