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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

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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.

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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

GamesRadar

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".

Latin Times

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 Independent 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

The Guardian - UK

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.

WhatToWatch

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

The Independent UK

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

He wasn't too pleased, reportedly

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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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Reese Witherspoon announces her debut novel written with Harlan Coben

The thriller novel is set for release in autumn 2025

The Guardian - UK

Adrian Chiles: what I have learned from five years of oversharing

It is a privilege to be able to express random thoughts, and not one I take lightly. When my dad died, writing about the experience helped me to cope

The Independent UK

Melania Trump passionately defends abortion rights in major rift with Donald

Comments come as Trump runningmate JD Vance made false claims about abortion stance during vice presidential denate

The Guardian - US

The Friend review – Naomi Watts befriends great dane in sweet, slight drama

An adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s bestselling 2018 novel about a woman dealing with her friend’s suicide is tender and well-acted, if a little messy

Evening Standard

Best Gothic novels for classic, dramatic and unsettling stories

Make every season spooky

The Guardian - UK

2024 Goldsmiths prize shortlist spotlights ‘the novel at its most novel’

Rachel Cusk, Neel Mukherjee and Jonathan Buckley and three debut authors in contention for award promoting innovation in fiction

The Guardian - UK

Reese Witherspoon announces first novel co-written with Harlan Coben

The Oscar-winning actor and author of the Myron Bolitar series have been ‘writing pages over many months’ together to create a thriller to be published next year

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