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Aya: Claws Come Out by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie review – Ivory Coast’s comic soap opera

The latest instalment in Abouet’s brilliantly illustrated series about the lives of three friends in Abidjan is as funny and sharp as ever

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Victoria’s Robinsons Bookshop apologises after owner’s call for more ‘white kids’ on book covers

Susanne Horman’s comments have been ‘taken out of context’ and ‘misrepresented’, business says

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Literature a strong medium to unite society: CM

The International Literature Festival of Kerala celebrates humanity through literature, featuring writers from around the world.

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Does having babies really make women more productive? I felt as if I had been dismantled

Well done, all the new mothers who cram a full day’s work into their child’s nap time. But, writes Emma Beddington, let’s not pretend it’s easy

The Guardian - UK

Day by Michael Cunningham; The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez review – tales from the Covid era

Two New York novels – one a melodrama of familial tension, the other musings from an unlucky housesitter – investigate life during the pandemic

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My son is impressed that my book can be read in Estonian

But to him, some aspects of book writing are still lost in translation, says Séamas O’Reilly

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Best short novels for a classic quick read in 2024

Ingenious storytelling in 300 pages or less

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Jonathan Escoffery: ‘I was trying to write novels aged nine’

The If I Survive You author on the suspense of the Booker ceremony, Americans’ warped view of the Caribbean, and writing his next novel on the road

The Guardian - UK

‘Radical moves’ at Royal Society of Literature prompt rebellion

Senior members of august institution fear being sidelined under new president Bernardine Evaristo

The Guardian - UK

When Prince William Uses This Seemingly Innocuous Word, Princess Kate Knows He’s Angry with Her

It’s certainly not a word you’d expect in this context.

Marie Claire

Exclusive: Lorraine Kelly admits she 'loves being unleashed' and embraces her 'cheeky' side

In our exclusive interview, Lorraine Kelly opened up on showing her 'cheeky' side in her debut novel, her worries about getting older and more

Woman & Home

Spent Light by Lara Pawson review – the dark side of everyday things

Domestic objects lead to intimate memories and troubled histories in this glorious, genre-bending book

The Guardian - UK

Donald Trump ordered to pay E Jean Carroll $83.3m in defamation trial

Ex-president vows to appeal against ruling, which comes less than a year after Carroll won $5m in sexual abuse and defamation trial

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Whoopi Goldberg honors late family in poignant new memoir

Discover how Whoopi Goldberg honors her late mother and brother in her new memoir, Bits & Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me. A touching and insightful ...

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Donald Trump must pay additional $83.3million in New York defamation case

The judge said: 'The record will reflect that Mr Trump just rose and walked out of the courtroom'

Texas Observer

Border Angels and Magic Moments

A professor and a journalist report from the communities along the U.S.-Mexico border in Frontera, a new book from Sergio Chapa.

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One Day on Netflix: who's who in the cast of the new series, from Ambika Mod to Leo Woodall

The hotly anticipated adaptation of David Nicholls' book is set to air in February

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Empireworld review: A conversation-changing look at the British Empire's worldwide legacy

Sathnam Sanghera wants to play a game with you. He’s visiting a school where the boys wear “spotless white shirts” and “dark-blue blazers”, there’s a Latin motto, an official crest, a house system, and a stirring school song that contains the lyrics “always play the game!” Is he somewhere in…

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Come and Get It review: Boring and limp, this is exactly how not to follow a bestseller

Come and Get It is Kiley Reid’s breathlessly anticipated follow-up to her 2020 Booker long-listed triumph Such a Fun Age, which was lauded as an essential and nuanced satire of white privilege, racial microaggressions and gender politics. Published just before the Black Lives Matter movement, it became a key work…

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My grief for Georgia Blain was also about losing her work. So her ‘new’ stories are precious

Charlotte Wood reflects on her fellow author and friend’s posthumously published volume of elegiac short stories, We All Lived in Bondi Then

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tracey Emin: When I was 14, I used to have sex every Friday night in the back of someone’s van — they were 22

The saddest book I ever read was The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. What made it incredibly sad is the friend that gave me the book had been having an affair with my boyfriend.

The Guardian - UK

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A snail in space, dinosaurs on the beach, a fresh take on Jane Eyre, and a kebab-eating incarnation of Otis Redding

The Guardian - UK

‘I was an idiot!’ Ambika Mod on nearly turning down the romcom role of a lifetime

Her role in David Nicholls’s One Day looks set to make her a megastar – even though she almost refused to audition. Ambika Mod talks romance, racism and making her 13-year-old self’s dream come true

The Guardian - UK

Northanger Abbey review – Janeites, be warned! Austen gets a fanfic makeover

Writer Zoe Cooper and director Tessa Walker reignite Jane Austen’s early novel with hilarious physical storytelling and a fizzing cast, though the romance sputters out too soon

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