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Liza Minnelli to publish memoir on her life after documentaries ‘didn’t get it right’

Singer and actor says a ‘series of unfortunate events’ made her decide to tell her story in her own words

The Independent UK

Kate Middleton’s heartbreaking plea to King Charles over Prince George, Charlotte and Louis

The Princess of Wales has never been afraid to stand up for her three young children

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The Voyage Home by Pat Barker review – a brilliant finale to the Trojan war trilogy

This third volume brings a characteristic blend of brusque wisdom and piercing compassion to the stories of Cassandra and Clytemnestra

The Guardian - UK

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'Too Much Law' Gives Prosecutors Enormous Power To Ruin People's Lives

In a new book, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch describes the "human toll" of proliferating criminal penalties.

Reason

Prince Harry Addressed His Anger After "Cruel" Argument with Meghan Markle

"Did you overhear adults speak that way when you were growing up?"

Marie Claire

Karin Slaughter books in order: How to read the Will Trent and The Grant County series

Want to delve into the world of Karin Slaughter books? Here's the order to read them in

Woman & Home

My Brief but Fruitful Career as a Smut Peddler

I was a purveyor of sex, a teller of tawdry tales. And I was damn good at it

The Walrus

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Unfinished Zora Neale Hurston novel to be published 65 years after her death

The novelist’s final work, The Life of Herod the Great, will be published in January

The Guardian - UK

Trump cashes in on rally shooting as he unveils new $99 Save America book featuring iconic image

The latest release in a long line of cash grabs from the former president is available from 3 September

The Independent UK

Crime and thrillers of the month – review

In a month full of big hitters, Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie makes a welcome return, Mick Herron’s reissued debut doesn’t disappoint – and Janice Hallett is as ingenious as ever

The Guardian - UK

I fear books are going the way of vinyl records – a rarefied pursuit for hobbyists

We’re increasingly getting our narrative fix from short videos. But, like snacking on junk food, it won’t nourish us, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

The Sound Inside review – fiction spills into real life for two unworldly writers

When a disappointed novelist teaching creative writing encounters a student fascinated by Crime and Punishment a dangerous passion is sparked

The Guardian - UK

Nancy Pelosi reveals her guilt over husband Paul’s hammer attack: ‘They were after me’

David DePape, the man who attacked Paul Pelosi, confirmed during his trial that the 82-year-old was not his intended target

The Independent UK

Pope Francis says future priests should read poetry and fiction

The pontiff argues it is dangerous to write off literature as ‘a minor art’ as it offers an antidote to our ‘obsession with screens’ and nurtures human sympathy

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Wilderness: has the poshest festival in Britain gone left wing?

Labour’s Jess Phillips has replaced David Cameron as the star of this year’s festival

The Independent UK

House of the Dragon season 2 finale review: Eight episodes in, we’re still waiting for fiery action

As its second series comes to an end, the ‘Game of Thrones’ spin-off is still afflicted by a glacial narrative pace. Even its characters seem gripped by ennui

The Guardian - UK

Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott review – Bridget Jones in the jazz age

Reissued after a century, this lively, funny and harrowing debut follows a divorcee torn between sexual liberation and the compromised ‘safety’ of marriage in the 1920s

The Guardian - UK

There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak review – water, water everywhere

The links between a 19th-century Londoner who escapes poverty and a Yazidi girl born 200 years later are gradually revealed in an absorbing novel that reflects on global inequality

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Earth to Moon by Moon Unit Zappa review – waspish, funny account of life as Frank Zappa’s daughter

This memoir about being fathered by the 70s rock oddball and ‘pagan absurdist’ is an extraordinary tale of survival

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on list-making: a habit that is part of what makes us human

Editorial: From Homeric epic to the novels of today, the history of literature shows that there is nothing trivial about a list

Reason

Justice Gorsuch Explains What Collegiality Means

Does it mean going to the opera together, or a willingness to be persuaded?

The Guardian - UK

Rosa Regàs obituary

Spanish publisher opposed to the Franco regime who went on to write acclaimed novels

The Guardian - UK

Rosarita by Anita Desai – a luminous search for a mother

This short, exquisite novel about a young Indian woman’s encounter with a flamboyant stranger shows that Desai has lost none of her powers

The Guardian - UK

Nathan Thrall: ‘The scale and brutality of the Israeli response in Gaza hasn’t surprised me, no’

The US journalist and author on his Pulitzer prize-winning book about a Palestinian father, the aftermath of 7 October and what it means to be a Jewish critic of Israel

The Guardian - UK

The Outrun review – ambitious staging of Amy Liptrot’s Orkney addiction memoir

Vicky Featherstone’s directing and Isis Hainsworth’s fine lead turn valiantly blur the wild and the urban to portray the writer’s introspective journey to sobriety

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