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Britney Spears hits out after negative comments about her new memoir

‘Hopefully I can enlighten people who feel particularly alone in most cases or hurt or misunderstood,’ Spears says

The Independent UK

Britney Spears criticises ‘dumb and silly’ press coverage of her memoir

Singer says on social media that she didn’t mean ‘to offend anyone’ with her new tell-all book The Woman in Me

The Guardian - US

The game is afoot: BBC goes crazy for Sherlock Holmes creator Conan Doyle with two new shows

Lucy Worsley will examine Arthur Conan Doyle's fraught relationship with his most famous creation, and one of his ghost stories will be dramatised with Kit Harington this Christmas

Evening Standard

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‘I thought it was me alone’: how the Black British book festival has grown

Now in its third year, the event stepped up its ambitions and aims not only to spotlight authors but to change audiences

The Guardian - UK

Michael Leapman obituary

Other lives: Journalist and author who reported for the Times, the Sun and the Independent and wrote biographies of Rupert Murdoch and Neil Kinnock

The Guardian - UK

Liberation Day by George Saunders audiobook review – funny, poignant and surreal short stories

Prisoners have their brains wiped, a children’s author searches for ideas, and a grandfather rails at his life under a Trumpian leader in this collection, narrated by actors including Tina Fey and Michael McKean

The Guardian - UK

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett; West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman; Mrs Sidhu’s Dead and Scone by Suk Pannu; Kennedy 35 by Charles Cumming; The North Light by Hideo Yokoyama

The Guardian - UK

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Middle East war is the price of Netanyahu’s history with Hamas

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies made Hamas stronger and weakened those who want a two-state solution for Palestine. Polls show Netanyahu’s support is cratering. The president of the U.S. should stay far away.

Chicago Sun-Times

Could Cyrus Broacha become an overnight film star?

Cyrus may be seen in a feature film that will probably be released before the year is out, and his wife thought that in case he became an overnight film star, (the likelihood is 7%), he needed to do an image makeover. Her exact words, “You are too ugly and…

The Hindu

Natalie Haynes: ‘I couldn’t stop reading Stephen King - even at the top of the Eiffel Tower’

The author and comedian on drawing comedic inspiration from Juvenal, finding clarity in Homer, and the comic strips she loved as a teenager

The Guardian - UK

Yagna Balaji on her first writers’ retreat

Journalist and writer Yagna Balaji looks back at a five-day programme in Goa

The Hindu

For author Haruki Murakami, reading fiction helps us 'see through lies' in a world divided by walls

Japanese author Haruki Murakami says he is torn by the conflict in Israel since he has Jewish friends but understands that the situation of the Palestinians is dire

The Independent UK

Britney Spears memoir ‘accidentally leaked in Mexico’ ahead of official release date

Spears’s forthcoming memoir is scheduled for release on 24 October

The Independent UK

Germany must face its issues over Israel and the past. Silencing a Palestinian author won’t help

The Frankfurt book fair’s cancelling of an award ceremony for Adania Shibli shows the risks of imposing one narrative on our cultural space, says Berlin-based journalist and author Hanno Hauenstein

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

Britney Spears' book 'The Woman In Me' makes private details public, and public events personal

Britney Spear’s highly anticipated memoir “The Woman in Me” will be released Tuesday

Salon

J.K. Rowling would risk prison for this?

In her latest rant, Rowling weighed lock-up against "forced denial of the reality and importance of sex"

The Independent UK

Will Smith joins Jada Pinkett Smith at book talk, calls their relationship brutal and beautiful

Will Smith joined wife Jada Pinkett Smith on stage as she promoted her new memoir in her hometown of Baltimore, pledging lifelong support for her

Newsroom.co.nz

The best-selling books at Labour Weekend

The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias

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A Memoir of My Former Self: Hilary Mantel's final book is a reminder of the many stories she still had to tell

In A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing, Hilary Mantel writes: “There is no failed writing, only work pending.” She’s referring to the 97 notebooks that she kept in a wooden box. Mantel promised: “There is nothing I won’t say, only what I haven’t said yet.”

The Hindu

Yaduveer Wadiyar releases book on Ranga Rao

Yaduveer Wadiyar released a book & limited edition agarbatti to honour N. Ranga Rao, founder of Cycle Pure Agarbathi, on his birth anniversary. The book, “From Mysuru to the World”, recounts Ranga Rao's life & achievements. His son & MD of NR Group, Arjun Ranga, said it's a royal tribute…

The Hindu

Works of Tamil writers draw the attention of European publishers at Frankfurt Book Fair

Tamil lit. gains global appeal: 1st Chennai Int'l Book Fair paves way for translations of Tamil works into many foreign langs. incl. Polish, Norwegian, Arabic, Slovak, Hungarian, Italian, Welsh, English, Icelandic, Filipino, Lithuanian, Spanish, French. Perumal Murugan's books to be translated into Amharic, Icelandic. Live translation sessions, game, "TransLingual Tales"…

The Independent UK

JK Rowling claims she would ‘happily’ spend two years in prison for misgendering a trans person

Harry Potter author was responding to a speculative report about a hypothetical new hate crime legislation under a Labour government

The Guardian - UK

Decolonising My Body by Afua Hirsch review – reclaiming beauty

A black woman’s gentle quest of learning and relearning how to understand her body

The Guardian - US

Scholastic Books should stop buckling to rightwing bullies

Librarians now can hit the ‘bigot button’ for their school book fairs. But the publisher’s ham-fisted move is sure to increase sales

Evening Standard

'Tel Aviv feels like Kyiv in the first days of war: eerie and fearful'

Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak have flown into Israel for meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — but what's the situation for civilians on the ground? Tom Mutch reports

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