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Can you outwit Margaret Atwood? The bumper books quiz of 2022

Which author was this year elected to the US Senate? In what horror story does a vampire appear as a cat? Test your wits with questions set by authors

The Guardian - UK

Will there be a Handmaid’s Tale season 6? Viewers demand answer following dramatic finale

The story of Gilead will soon come to an end

The Independent UK

Hay Festival 2023: Dates and line-up with Dua Lipa, Stormzy, Helena Bonham Carter and more

The award-winning literary festival will be welcoming a whole host of famous faces

Evening Standard

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‘Something for everybody’: Dua Lipa joins Margaret Atwood on Hay festival 2023 lineup

Pop star and Booker prize winner will both appear at the literary festival in Wales next year along with rock duo the Proclaimers and poet laureate Simon Armitage

The Guardian - UK

The Handmaid's Tale season 6 guide: release date, cast, trailer, plot, and more

The sixth and final season has now come to an end

Total Film

‘Join the club’: Stephen King, Margaret Atwood and more reassure debut author after lonely book launch

Chelsea Banning tweeted about being ‘upset’ when only two friends showed up to her signing. Then some of the world’s biggest authors – and Flavor Flav – stepped in

The Guardian - AU

A new writer tweeted about a low book signing turnout, and famous authors commiserated

Novelists like Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood and Stephen King shared discouraging moments in their career after debut author Chelsea Banning tweeted that only two people came to her book signing.

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Debut author comforted by Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman after two people showed up to her book-signing

‘I have sat lonely at a signing table many times only to have someone approach… and ask me where the bathroom is,’ commented author Jodi Picoult

The Independent UK

Russia bans 100 Canadians - including Jim Carrey and Margaret Atwood

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been adding people to the list of those banned from Russia in response to sanctions against the country by Canada

Wales Online

All tales must come to an end, including The Handmaid’s Tale … but wait, there’s more

While season five of The Handmaid's Tale may be over, there's a sixth and final season and a spin-off series in the works next year

The New Daily

Naomi Alderman novel 'The Future' scheduled for next fall

Novelist Naomi Alderman is a “what if” kind of writer, as in: What if women were endowed with the ability to electrocute others

The Independent UK

Why women's freedom threatens many men

The notion that men are superior to women is the root of all human inequality. That's why we must fight it

Salon

It’s time for June Osborne to start winning in The Handmaid’s Tale

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, returning to Channel 4 this weekend, has spent four seasons dragging June into the depths of hell. There’s nothing more to be learnt from her suffering, writes Amanda Whiting

The Independent UK

Carmen Callil, pioneering champion of female writers, dies aged 84

Publisher who founded Virago Press began as a campaigning outsider who introduced UK readers to authors including Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood

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Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng review – an all-too-close dystopia

A boy’s search for his mother, a freedom-loving poet who opposes America’s authoritarian regime, makes for a shaky follow-up to Little Fires Everywhere

The Independent UK

Alex Jones’ lawyer says he is a ‘mad prophet’ like The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood or George Orwell

“There have always been creative geniuses in the world,” Jones’ attorney Norm Pattis says

The National (Scotland)

The Handmaid’s Tale: Dystopian future in which women are entirely subjugated

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Guardian - UK

Judith Schalansky is ninth author to write secret work for Future Library

The German author’s contribution will remain unseen, alongside contributions from authors including Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell, until 2114

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The Independent UK

It’s time for June Osborne to start winning in The Handmaid’s Tale

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has spent four seasons dragging June into the depths of hell. There’s nothing more to be learnt from her suffering, writes Amanda Whiting

The Guardian - UK

Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman among authors signed up for Ukrainian book festival

Lviv BookForum is partnering with Hay festival for a programme of in-person and online events, which will be streamed free from 6-9 October

The Guardian - UK

Author Orhan Pamuk: ‘I used to have three bodyguards, now I have one’

Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk on Salman Rushdie’s attack, responding to extremism in Turkey – and his new, oddly prophetic, pandemic novel

The Conversation

Five books you'll like if you love The Odyssey

In The Odyssey, an almost 3,000-year-old epic attributed to a poet known as Homer, the soldier Odysseus narrates most adventures in retrospect. The poem, which tells of Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War, is both the origin of our concept of nostalgia (from the Greek nostos meaning the journey home)…

The Guardian - US

Missing Pages: the podcast revisiting jaw-dropping literary scandals

From the case of Dan Mallory to the story of Kaavya Viswanathan, literary critic Bethanne Patrick looks back on some of the strangest book scandals ever

The Guardian - UK

The Trials review – tomorrow’s children hold us to account for climate crimes

In a near-future world on fire, a jury of 12 young people listen to testimony from the ‘dinosaur’ generation

The Guardian - UK

Authors on the Salman Rushdie attack: ‘A society cannot survive without free speech’

Writers including Margaret Atwood, Ben Okri and Ian McEwan have spoken out after the attack in New York

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