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Princess Diana "Wound Down Her Window" and Gave a Bride Some Brutal Advice After Her Divorce From Prince Charles

Someone track this couple down ASAP.

Marie Claire

10 Must-Read Thrillers to Inspire You to "Be Gay, Do Crime" This Pride

These murder mystery books feature acts of queer resistance—and should absolutely be on your TBR stack.

Marie Claire

Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way by Elaine Feeney review – a satisfying tale of memory and place

Stories within stories give fascinating depth to the prize-winning author’s third novel, about a woman’s return to her family home in the west of Ireland

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Trump’s war on Harvard was decades in the making. This letter proves it

A message tucked into an old book serves as a reminder that the assault on the institution is part of a long-planned effort

The Guardian - US

George Takei's New Book Slams Trump While Revealing His Emotional Coming Out Journey

George Takei's latest memoir explores his journey of coming out as gay while addressing opposition from political leadership.

International Business Times UK

Stars: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey review – mission to Planet Orgasm

Mojisola Adebayo’s play deftly navigates light and heavy subject matter as its hero embarks on a quest to feel the earth move

The Guardian - UK

King ‘told Conclave author he watched papal selection film’

Robert Harris, 68, was made a CBE by Charles, and Dame Jacqueline Wilson was made a Dame Grand Cross.

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Winfrey's new book club pick marks the return of an old favorite, Wally Lamb

For her next book club pick, Oprah Winfrey is highlighting an author she has praised even before she had a book club

The Independent UK

Stars Viggo Mortensen and Sam Heughan join Edinburgh Book Festival line-up

THE programme for the Edinburgh International Book Festival has been revealed, with speakers including former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, author…

The National (Scotland)

Edinburgh book festival to focus on hope with line-up including Kureishi and Sturgeon

Former footballer Ally McCoist also among guests as festival seeks to broaden its appeal

The Guardian - UK

TikTok grandmother Norma, 91, dies as legion of fans pay tribute to 'nation's Nana'

Norma’s family said they had lost “our rock” in a joint statement published on their TikTok page last night

Evening Standard

Frederick Forsyth obituary

Foreign correspondent who went on to become a hugely successful thriller writer best known for The Day of the Jackal

The Guardian - UK

Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent, dies aged 86

Writer used his experience reporting on De Gaulle’s France to plot his thriller, and continued to draw on real-world research for subsequent bestsellers

The Guardian - UK

David Beckham’s knighthood shows the unique - and utterly absurd - power of the British class system

As the Beckhams finally get what they’ve apparently always wanted, what does it say about the institutions that put so much energy into blocking them? And what does it say about the rest of us, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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Nicola Sturgeon's memoir has cleared government security checks, documents show

NICOLA Sturgeon’s hotly anticipated memoir is set to hit the shelves in a few months time.

The Guardian - UK

Muckle Flugga by Michael Pedersen review – anything can happen on this remote Scottish island

Life is turned upside-down by a new arrival, in this weird and charming tale of nature and family – with a guest appearance from the ghost of Robert Louis Stevenson

The Independent UK

Sex, grief and debauchery: Gráinne O’Hare on her blazing millennial novel Thirst Trap

INTERVIEW: As post-Sally Rooney Irish lit is booming, the 32-year-old writer talks to Ellie Harrison about her tale of a group of Belfast women stumbling through life and loss as they wave their twenties goodbye

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on coming-out tales: from A Boy’s Own Story to What It Feels Like for a Girl

Editorial: Groundbreaking memoirs continue to shape the history of LGBTQ+ rights

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o obituary

Distinguished Kenyan novelist, poet and academic who championed writing in African languages rather than in English

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m here to open doors’: Bernardine Evaristo on success, controversy and why she plans to donate her £100k award

The Girl, Woman, Other author has this week been awarded a one-off Women’s prize award for her outstanding contribution. She talks about her long road to recognition, and using her profile to support other writers

Evening Standard

Finding Margaret by Andrew Pierce review: A moving tale of abandonment

Andrew Pierce’s moving memoir is dedicated “to Betty and George, my real mum and dad”. That puts the story that follows in perspective. It’s about his search for his birth mother. But we know at the start that it has a happy ending, because Betty and George were there for…

The Independent UK

Stephen King puts the Trump and Musk feud into perspective with one scathing question

‘The world actually has problems,’ complained the author when addressing the fallout between the pair

Evening Standard

Electric Spark by Frances Wilson review: Muriel is as intriguing as her novels

What is so fascinating about Muriel Spark? In the last decade before she died aged 88 in 2006, any interview with the Scottish author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie became an event. The excitement was firstly because she was an artist of the old school, famous not only…

The Independent UK

How groundbreaking gay author Edmund White paved the way for other writers

Edmund White, a pioneer of contemporary gay literature, died this week at age 85

The Guardian - UK

Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed review – the poetry, prose and passion of a Scottish modernist

Richard Baron and Ellie Zeegen’s play follows the writer from wide-eyed child discovering nature in rural Scotland to feisty care-home resident

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