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Kolkata’s oldest bookshop to turn part of premises into free library

Kolkata's oldest bookshop, Dasgupta and Co., set up in 1886, is converting part of its premises into a free library for students who cannot afford books. The library will offer 10,000 titles, archival records, and translations from English to Bangla and vice-versa. Rabindranath Tagore, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, and Ashapurna Devi…

The Hindu

Britney Spears on Forthcoming Memoir: “I Worked My A— Off for This Book”

“I had a lot of therapy to get this book done, so you guys better like it. And if you don’t like it, that’s fine, too.”

Marie Claire

Royal Society of Literature aims to broaden representation as it announces 62 new fellows

RSL president Bernadine Evaristo highlights need to change to become an organisation for all writers rather than just the white and middle class

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Salman Rushdie reveals he may never speak at public events again after frenzied knife attack

Award-winning writer has given first interview since devastating 2022 attack which left him blind in one eye

Manchester Evening News

Britney Spears reveals release date of tell-all memoir telling story 'on her terms'

The singer's book The Woman in Me will cover her tumultuous life, including the years of her conservatorship, and will be release on October 24, she announced in a new video

Daily Mirror

Milan Kundera, a Czech exile who found home in France, dies at 94

Czech-born writer Milan Kundera, who has died in Paris at the age of 94, lived almost half his life in France. A self-described Francophile, he wrote his later works in French and was convinced that being in exile enriched his writing.

Radio France Internationale

Huw Edwards: BBC presenter who broke Queen’s death to nation now at centre of sex scandal

Revelations over top-earning presenter will rock not just his industry but the nation’s confidence, writes Nick Hilton

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Kenny Imafidon talks Peckham, prison, Parliament and the pen

At 17, Kenny Imafidon was dealing drugs and hanging out with MPs. Then fate took a turn... As he releases his memoir, Sophie Wilkinson hears how the boy done good

Evening Standard

Book of the Week: Pip, genius

A strange, wondrous and disquieting journey on a spaceship crewed by giants. What?

Newsroom.co.nz

‘Every writer’s deepest fear’: what happened when I gave a book talk completely nude

At Nudefest, the UK’s largest naturist festival, I faced rows of unclothed nooks and visible crannies while discussing my writing. But would having my kit off prove a distraction?

The Guardian - UK

Milan Kundera: ‘funny, experimental, worldly’

Famously exiled from cold war Czechoslovakia by the Russian invasion, the novelist used his exclusion to find new ways to live and write• Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being author dies aged 94

The Guardian - UK

Who plays Cisco in The Lincoln Lawyer and does he die as season 2 part 1 ups the stakes for Mickey and his inner circle?

It just wouldn't be the same without Cisco in The Lincoln Lawyer and the investigator has had an intense journey in the show so far...

Woman & Home

Milan Kundera obituary

Influential Czech-born author of the bestselling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Guardian - UK

The history of Dublin explained in bite sized chunks in new book launched this summer

A Little History of Dublin is accessible to all who wish to learn more about Dublin's history

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Evening Standard

What did Milan Kundera write? Author dies aged 94

He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1985, which is given to writers whose works have dealt with themes of human freedom in society

The Independent UK

The Zodiac Killer claimed responsibility for 37 murders. But what if he never existed at all?

The enduring mystery of the Zodiac Killer has terrified and tantalised the world for more than half a century. There has been no shortage of theories about the killer, but a new Peacock series explores a singular question: What if there was no ‘Zodiac Killer’ at all? Sheila Flynn writes

The Guardian - UK

Hungarian bookseller wraps LGBTQ+ books in plastic to stop people reading them

Libri bows to pressure to comply with ‘child protection’ law after takeover by foundation linked to PM

The Guardian - UK

First edition of The Hobbit found in Dundee charity shop sells for £10,000

The book, which is one of the first 1,500 copies printed in 1937 and contains illustrations by JRR Tolkien, was discovered in the backroom at a Cancer Research UK store

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Manchester Evening News

New summer reading scheme launched to encourage young children to read over the holidays

'Year after year, Manchester Libraries work hard with partner organisations in engaging young Mancunians to discover the joy of the written word.'

Evening Standard

Britney Spears’ memoir ‘The Woman in Me’ will be out sooner than you think

“I had a lot of therapy to get this book done so that you guys better like it”. After Britney’s book cover reveal, here’s everything you need to know about the singer’s tell-all memoir

Evening Standard

Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, dies aged 94

The literary giant tackled the big questions in his celebrated novels

The Guardian - UK

‘To be a writer means to discover a truth’: Milan Kundera – a life in quotes

The Czech author has died at the age of 94. Here are some of the most memorable quotes from interviews and articles over the course of his career

The Conversation

Classic literature still offers rich lessons about life in the deep blue sea

When OceanGate, the deep-sea exploration enterprise, created a promotional video for its ill-fated US$250,000-per-head trip to see the wreck of the Titanic, it told prospective passengers to “Get ready for what Jules Verne could only imagine – a 12,500-foot journey to the bottom of the sea.” Those behind the video…

Daily Mirror

Meghan Markle needs to be 'extremely careful' of Kate Middleton after 'warning shot'

Meghan Markle has reportedly been warned to "be careful" of her sister-in-law Kate Middleton after insiders reveal that the Princess of Wales is willing to "play dirty if she has to"

Manchester Evening News

First edition copy of The Hobbit sells for an amazing amount after being discovered in a charity store

Cancer Research store boss stunned after he contacted eBay for valuation

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