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Nun accuses Louisiana of blocking death row clemency appeals in lawsuit

Sister Helen Prejean, known for 1995 film Dead Man Walking, accues board of pardons of breaking state’s public meetings law

The Guardian - US

Hamas has achieved what it wanted by attacking Israel: terror, escalation, and disruption to the international order

In many ways Hamas’s attack on Israel sums up the essence of terrorism. The group’s mass incursions have seen its operatives storming Israeli towns, killing and kidnapping hundreds. This appears to have been done by the book when it comes to creating feelings of terror and escalating the situation.

The Conversation

Scottish publishing house closes business due to ‘complexities of Brexit’

A RENOWNED Scottish publishing house is winding down business due to the financial impact of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic.

The National (Scotland)

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Book Review: Isa Arsén delivers an unconventional love story in debut novel 'Shoot the Moon’

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The Independent UK

‘If we don’t teach kids about consent, the internet will’: Natasha Devon on the importance of sex education

The mental health campaigner’s new book tackles sex and relationships through the eyes of a 16-year-old. In the face of a backlash against inclusive sex ed in schools she explains why we have to keep the conversation open

The Guardian - UK

‘Calves are the biceps of the legs!’: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s seven big life lessons

Find opportunity in failure – and don’t let your legs get in the way of world domination. Here is the distilled wisdom of Arnie’s first foray into self-help

The Guardian - UK

Genshin Impact, BG3 voice actors star in new cyberpunk visual novel

Gods of the Twilight, a new cyberpunk visual novel, is entering early access soon, and Volutian Design revealed the headline voice actors

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Author and playwright David Benedictus dies aged 85

The writer was best known for books including Return To The Hundred Acre Wood.

The Independent UK

Alabama flags children’s book for censorship because author’s name is ‘Gay’

Read Me a Story Stella has no sexual content – and is in fact about two siblings spending the day reading and building a fort

The Independent UK

Nicola Sturgeon paid first £75,000 instalment for 'personal and revealing' memoirs

NICOLA Sturgeon has been paid the first £75,000 of four installments for her memoirs.

The National (Scotland)

‘Upending the genre’: the children’s author rewriting the rules of sex ed

A new trio of books for kids focuses on consent, kindness and curiosity. Author Cory Silverberg explains why we need to rethink talking with young people about sex

The Guardian - UK

Monica by Daniel Clowes review – pitch-perfect portraits of an ever scarier US

A prickly misfit connects nine dark tales in this sad and sharply funny new book from the author of Ghost World

The Guardian - UK

David Walliams ‘locked in Italian prison cell for seven hours’ during Venice trip

‘Little Britain’ star told onlookers at Henley Literary Festival 2023 that he was recently apprehended at an airport in Venice

The Independent UK

Publishing industry faces ‘huge problem’ as thousands of students illegally download texts

There were 300,000 searches made to piracy sites that allowed downloading text from books in September, Perlego says

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Publishing industry faces billions in costs as students illegally download texts

There were 300,000 searches made to piracy sites that allow you to download text from books in September, Perlego said.

Chicago Sun-Times

A timely escape into sports history

Rich Cohen calls the 1987-88 NBA season the greatest ever.

The Guardian - UK

Music, history and courageous journalism: Baillie Gifford prize shortlist announced

Judges praise the final six ‘exquisite and ambitious’ works in contention for the £50,000 award for nonfiction

The Independent UK

Shortlist for Baillie Gifford Non-Fiction Prize 2023 unveiled

The winner will be announced during a ceremony on November 16.

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The Guardian - UK

Where are the works on British black urban films?

UCL professor Clive Nwonka says genre should stand with traditions such as the French new wave and British social realism in terms of academic study

The Guardian - UK

A Bird in Winter by Louise Doughty review – effortless entertainment

The Apple Tree Yard author and staple of TV drama returns with another addictive thriller about a woman on the run

The Independent UK

Judy Murray rallies against ‘elitist image’ of tennis during talk at Henley Literary Festival

Murray’s new book is set among the ‘Haves’ and ‘Have-nots’ in the world of tennis

The Independent UK

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin author Louis de Bernières says Nicolas Cage had ‘horrendous’ time during film adaptation

Author was being interviewed onstage by The Independent’s chief books critic Martin Chilton for an event at Henley Literary Festival 2023

The Guardian - UK

Sweden’s ‘queen of Noir’ Camilla Läckberg accused of using a ghostwriter

Crime novelist has been forced to deny claims that she tricked readers into buying books she didn’t write herself

The Guardian - UK

Triggered Literature by John Sutherland review – a cautious approach

The academic treads a little too carefully in his wry but passionless history of books deemed harmful to a reader’s state of mind

The Hindu

P.S. Sreedharan Pillai — a Governor in his literary labyrinth

As Goa Governor, P.S. Sreedharan Pillai takes full advantage of his bully pulpit, speaking about, and disseminating his passion for reading and literature. He has authored more than 200 books which traverse an astonishing range of subjects – from history, politics, law to poetry and economy, being possibly the only…

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