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From Persia with love: the new one-woman play that’s good enough to eat

When Atoosa Sepehr fled Iran overnight for a new life in London, family recipes helped her stave off homesickness. Now her story has been turned into a drama – with mouthwatering onstage cooking

The Guardian - UK

Utah judge to decide if author of children's book on grief will face trial in her husband's death

An evidentiary hearing is set for a Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after her husband’s death and was later accused of fatally poisoning him

The Independent UK

Sir Larry Siedentop obituary

Other lives: Political philosopher who wrote a well received book on the democratic deficit at the heart of the European Union

The Guardian - UK

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Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr review – our planet: a living, breathing, mutating miracle

The US-based journalist has fashioned a wide-ranging and thought-provoking study of how everything from microbes to mammoths transformed our world into a living organism

The Guardian - UK

Dogs and Monsters by Mark Haddon review – myth and legend refocused in deft short stories

The author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time gives fresh legs to the Minotaur, Actaeon, his hounds and more

The Guardian - UK

‘I feel like when I’m 50 people will take me seriously’: novelists Eliza Clark and Julia Armfield in conversation

The two authors, who became friends during lockdown, discuss their experiences in the UK publishing industry, the day job, and books they love

The Guardian - UK

The Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer review – a not so smashing follow-up

The comedian’s flights of fancy are again to the fore in this sequel to his award-winning crime caper, but sadly, momentum and intrigue are a little lacking

The Guardian - UK

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The best new novels for autumn 2024, from Sally Rooney to Jonathan Coe and Haruki Murakami

The biggest names are back in a stellar season for fiction, with rip-roaring feminist horror, revenge tales, family sagas, spy romps and more. Here’s our essential guide

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Peggy: A Novel; Oaklore: Adventures in a World of Extraordinary Trees; My Men – reviews

Rebecca Godfrey’s fictionalised biography of Peggy Guggenheim is full of adventure; Jules Acton’s woodland wisdom is infectious; and Victoria Kielland’s novel gets into the mind of the first female US serial killer

The Guardian - UK

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner review – double dealing in deepest France

Longlisted for this year’s Booker prize, Kushner’s cleverly paced tale of espionage, narrated by a ‘wild and boastful’ agent provocateur, juggles a killer plot with anarchy, agriculture and prehistory, making for her most entertaining novel yet

The Guardian - UK

Kensington apartment in Virginia Woolf's childhood home goes on the market for £2.45 million

22 Hyde Park Gate was the birthplace of one of the greatest 20th-century writers, but it hides a dark past

Evening Standard

Clare Chambers: Best and worst compliment? ‘My mum loves your books’

The ‘Shy Creatures’ author on what she learnt from Iris Murdoch, the best book she’s read this year, and the bookshop everyone should go to...

The Independent UK

Sex and secrets in PM’s limo: Asquith’s wild trysts with socialite mistress

Author Robert Harris discovers adulterous affair was cause of military and political crises at the onset of first world war

The Guardian - UK

New book recalls the Jacobite spies forgotten by history

THEY have largely been forgotten about but a new book reveals the women who played key roles as secret agents for the Jacobite cause...

The National (Scotland)

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Putin Played On Trump's Ego, Top Adviser Says In New Book

Donald Trump was determined during his presidency to cozy up to Vladimir Putin despite Russia's interference in US democracy and objections by advisers, a former top aide claims in a new book, according to an excerpt published Saturday.

The Guardian - UK

Sharpe creator Bernard Cornwell apologises to fans for no new novel in 2024

Author says in Facebook post that he’s had ‘year from hell’

The National (Scotland)

The UK's first ever romance bookshop opens in Edinburgh

THERE was once a time where few people in Scotland would’ve felt comfortable reading a so-called “bodice-ripper” in public.

The Guardian - UK

Beyond Bilbo: JRR Tolkien’s long-lost poetry to be published

Long-lost verse from the Lord of the Rings author will reach bookshops 50 years after his death

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Where the Ultra-Wealthy Retire

Luxury retirement communities for the ultra-wealthy are springing up in the U.S.

The Guardian - UK

Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers review – trauma unearthed

The follow-up to Small Pleasures is set in a mid-century psychiatric hospital, as an art therapist delves into a patient’s past

The Guardian - UK

‘My moans of pleasure fill the echoing church’: eight women share their erotic fantasies

Actor Gillian Anderson has collected anonymous women’s deepest sexual desires for a new book. In this extract, she introduces tales of lust and longing

The Independent UK

Dogs don’t block creativity like Karl Ove Knausgaard says – every writer needs one

Knausgaard once said that having a pet pooch gave him writer’s block but Nick Duerden has found his border terrier Missy to be a balm. He talks to other authors about the literary appeal of all creatures great and small

The Independent UK

Oklahoma revokes license of teacher who gave class QR code to Brooklyn library in book-ban protest

A former public high school teacher in Oklahoma had her teaching license revoked by the State Board of Education Thursday for providing students a link to a list of banned books posted online two years prior

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The complicated and impressive way that Pachinko seamlessly uses Korean, Japanese and English in its storytelling

Season 2 of the epic drama is back on Apple TV+.

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