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Jurors in trial of Salman Rushdie's attacker likely won't hear about his motive

Jurors who will be picked for the trial of a man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a knife attack likely won’t hear about the fatwa that authorities have said motivated him to act

The Independent UK

Hamish MacGibbon obituary

Other lives: Educational publisher at Heinemann whose textbooks became market leaders in the UK and internationally

The Guardian - UK

‘Urgent’, ‘stunningly written’, ‘a feat of imagination’: the best Australian books out in October

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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King Charles’s Goddaughter, India Hicks, Says Her Mother, Lady Pamela Hicks, “Absolutely Believes in the Thinning Down of the Royal Family”

The designer and author sat down with Marie Claire to discuss her new book, 'Lady Pamela.'

Marie Claire

Some online conspiracy-spreaders don’t even believe the lies they’re spewing

There has been a lot of research on the types of people who believe conspiracy theories, and their reasons for doing so. But there’s a wrinkle: My colleagues and I have found that there are a number of people sharing conspiracies online who don’t believe their own content.

The Conversation

Boris Johnson’s memoir, Unleashed, tops Amazon UK sales list ahead of publication

Sold at half price, the former PM’s apologia of his career has outstripped sales of recent novels by Sally Rooney and Richard Osman

The Guardian - UK

The best recent poetry – review roundup

Collected Poems by Wendy Cope; Eat the World by Marina Diamandis; Unwritten Woman by Hannah Lavery; Agimat by Romalyn Ante; Monster by Dzifa Benson

The Guardian - UK

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The Little Prince review – twinkling spin on Saint-Exupéry’s flight of fantasy

Performance poet Toby Thompson has a breezy rapport with the young audience as he retells the bittersweet novella with modern trimmings

The Guardian - UK

Alan Hollinghurst: ‘I wrote letters to my schoolfriends in dwarfish runes’

The author on the brilliance of Burroughs, Penelope Fitzgerald’s concise mastery, and a teenage obsession with Middle-earth

The Guardian - UK

Odyssey by Stephen Fry review – a jaunty version of Homer

The last in Fry’s four-book retelling of the Greek myths is relatable and full of humour

The Guardian - UK

Disclaimer to La Máquina: the seven best shows to stream this week

Cate Blanchett and Alfonso Cuarón’s gripping, tricksy and startlingly sexually explicit drama lands, along with Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna’s lively tale of an ageing boxer. Plus: vomiting cakes!

The Guardian - UK

How the internet killed design

If the designers from the 1990s knew what was coming, what would they have said?

Creative Bloq

The "Salem's Lot" reboot stinks

The feature-length adaptation of Stephen King's 1975 novel is leaving horror fans largely dissatisfied

Salon

French treasure hunt for buried owl statue ends after 31 years

A mass treasure hunt appears to have come to an end, after an announcement in France that a buried statuette of a golden owl has finally been unearthed – after 31 years.

France 24

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Ahead of its return as a monthly comic, the first series of Frank Miller's YA fantasy saga Pandora gets a lavish new hardback collection

Annabeth can make all her dreams come true – at a cost

Latin Times

CNN Told Melania Trump Interview Would Cost $250,000, Require Signing 'Confidentiality Agreement'

Melania Trump's publisher requested a $250,000 fee from CNN in exchange for an interview with the former First Lady in a document labeled "Confidentiality and Nondisclosure Agreement".

The Independent UK

Melania Trump’s publisher demanded $250,000 for interview about her memoir

Book publisher says request for huge payment and NDA was an ‘internal miscommunication’

The Guardian - UK

Majority of UK children’s books with Black main characters written by white authors, study finds

Report finds that books with main characters from minority ethnicities or who are disabled or neurodivergent are written by those who do not share the protagonist’s identity

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Netflix reveals exciting first look at new Harlan Coben thriller Missing You

Harlan Coben's Missing You is coming to Netflix in the new year.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson’s Unleashed: A memoir that’s twisted, sour and full of yet more lies

In his shameless and predictable 772-page account of events, the former PM forgoes the truth to paint a preposterous picture of himself as a man of destiny, too good for his own good

Marie Claire

The 'cruel' letter Camilla wrote to Charles before her wedding

He wasn't too pleased, reportedly

The Guardian - AU

The Deal by Alex Miller review – the failure and the fire of an artist’s life

The two-time Miles Franklin winner’s latest book revisits familiar characters from his life and work, interrogating art, friendship and fatherhood

The Conversation

Wretched of the Earth has been translated into South Africa’s Zulu language – why Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary book still matters

Frantz Fanon was an influential psychiatrist, Algerian revolutionary and pan-African thinker who was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique. His work – and particularly his final book The Wretched of the Earth (1961) – is still widely referenced to understand the fight against colonialism and also the postcolonial era…

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson insists he would have won July election in new book

Former PM’s memoir Unleashed argues he was victim of ‘witch-hunt’ and lockdown parties broke no rules

The Guardian - UK

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich review – a multifaceted rural tale

A love triangle in a farming community provides the central theme in this garrulous small-town satire

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