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The best biographies and memoirs of 2024: Literary It-girls, art world intrigue and sociopathy

THE LIST: Catch up on 2024’s most illuminating life stories, encompassing tales of recovery, literary feuds and devastating betrayal, with Katie Rosseinsky’s edit of the best memoirs and biographies

The Independent UK

‘I’m so not an astronaut!’ Samantha Harvey on her Booker-winning space novel – and the anxiety that drove it

She won the top prize with a time-distorted novel set on the International Space Station. Yet, the writer reveals, Orbital is actually ‘a celebration of Earth’s beauty with a pang of loss’ – fuelled by her anxiety-induced insomnia

The Guardian - UK

Author Katherine Rundell donates royalties to climate charities in Trump protest

All author royalties earned from The Golden Mole, published in the US this week as Vanishing Treasures, will help counteract ‘the election of a climate-change denier’

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Celebrities need to stop writing children’s books: they’re woefully underqualified

As Jamie Oliver has found out to his cost, write what you know or you could end up with a flop and an international PR disaster, says Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik review – friendship and rivalry in LA

The journalist and author of Hollywood’s Eve makes no pretence of impartiality as she charts the difficult relationship between two chroniclers of California

The Guardian - UK

‘Go to hell’: how Project 2025 chief kicked the Guardian out of book event

Heritage Foundation staff member, introducing Kevin Roberts to the reporter, says: ‘You’ve got two minutes with our best friend Adam from the Guardian’

The Guardian - US

‘He has different personas’: inside Benjamin Franklin’s life as a scientist

A fascinating and revealing new book looks back on the inventor, writer, publisher and founding father’s scientific work

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George RR Martin teases potential new Game of Thrones project with Maisie Williams

Williams played Arya Stark in Game of Thrones for eight seasons

The Independent UK

Florida officials report hundreds of books removed from schools

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Normal People by Sally Rooney and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, among books pulled

The Guardian - US

After 50 years, overdue library book is returned to Massachusetts library with a sweet note

‘It’s a rarity that someone found this,’ said one staffer at the Worcester Public Library

The Independent UK

British writer Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize for space novel Orbital

Judges say award recognises the ‘beauty and ambition’ of 136-page novel set on board the International Space Station.

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UK Writer Samantha Harvey Wins 2024 Booker With Space Novel

British writer Samantha Harvey won the prestigious Booker Prize on Tuesday for her science fiction novel following six astronauts as they orbit Earth over 24 hours.

International Business Times

Florida education officials report hundreds of books pulled from school libraries

“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison

The Independent UK

British author Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for Orbital

Harvey becomes the first woman to win the prize since Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo shared the award in 2019

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‘This is a book we need now’: Sara Collins on choosing this year’s Booker winner

After reading more than 150 books over seven months, the judges voted unanimously in favour of Samantha Harvey’s Orbital – which pulled them as far away as possible from our planet

The Independent UK

British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel 'Orbital' wins the Booker Prize for fiction

British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for fiction with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station

Evening Standard

The high-profile female winners of the Booker Prize

Many female novelists have been honoured with damehood.

The Independent UK

Samantha Harvey: A Booker 2024 winner who wants to spend her money on sculpting

She does not have a mobile phone and spends money on liquorice

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The Guardian - UK

Samantha Harvey’s ‘beautiful and ambitious’ Orbital wins Booker prize

The British author’s novel about astronauts on the International Space Station was chosen unanimously as the winner, says judging chair Edmund de Waal

The Independent UK

How to read the Bridget Jones books in order – including Mad About the Boy

The film is set for release on Valentine’s Day

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V For Vendetta, Kingdom Come, The Authority, and Superman: Birthright are just some of the 15 new titles added to DC's Compact Comics range

The full list of Wave 2 Compact Comics is here

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Teenage teacher shared children’s book on jihad, court told

Dzhamilya Timaeva had planned to use the extremist book in lessons for young children, the Old Bailey heard.

The Guardian - UK

Hachette employees protest and quit over launch of conservative imprint

Basic Liberty, a publishing imprint launched in the wake of Trump’s election win, will be helmed by Thomas Spence, an editor associated with Project 2025 thinktank The Heritage Foundation

The Independent UK

There are 23 books in the Dune series – here’s how to read them in order

From the seminal Frank Herbert saga to the prequels and sequels to follow

Evening Standard

‘I think I’m on the mend’: Queen attends Booker Prize reception after illness

Camilla congratulated the six shortlisted authors at Clarence House in her first public engagement since she contracted the seasonal bug.

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