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Ghost writing offers a chance to embrace anonymity, detach from outcomes, and midwife social change. Rewards are not overwhelming, but fame and opulence are unlikely. Ghost writers can find satisfaction in their work.

The Hindu

Liz Truss to offer lessons from her time in government in book

Liz Truss has said she wants to “share the lessons” from her time in government as she writes a book recounting her tumultuous 49 days as prime…

The National (Scotland)

Olga Ravn: ‘Learning how to love a child isn’t something that happens in a second’

The Danish author on her new hybrid novel about maternal ambivalence, her debt to Doris Lessing, and attempting to read Freud aged 10

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On my radar: Naomi Klein’s cultural highlights

The Canadian author and activist on the self-deprecating comedy of Mae Martin, a mind-altering memoir, and the singer she drove miles to see live

The Guardian - UK

Mohamed Al Fayed: the ebullient entrepreneur who acquired Harrods

“If the novelists P.G. Wodehouse, Jackie Collins and Naguib Mahfouz had been asked to pool their creative talents, they would have struggled to invent a character as bold and controversial as Mohamed Al Fayed,” said Andrew Anthony in The Observer.

The Week

What women want when they pay for sex: ‘Just kindness’

In his four years as a sex worker, Dan Moon saw women whose needs were more than physical. He brought a listening ear – and an open heart – which led to him ‘falling in care’ with his clients

The Guardian - AU

Uncorrected Harry Potter proof found at primary school sold in ‘fairytale’ auction

Rare copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone featuring ‘JA Rowling’ typo sold to local museum in Oxfordshire

The Guardian - UK

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Poet Rita Dove to receive an honorary National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement

Poet Rita Dove is this year's winner of an honorary National Book Award for “Distinguished Contribution to American Letters,” a lifetime achievement prize previously given to Toni Morrison and Don DeLillo among others

The Independent UK

Stephen King says wife threatened to leave him over ‘Mambo No 5’

Horror author recalled how he ‘had the dance mix’ and would ‘play both sides of it’ to his wife’s annoyance

The Independent UK

Stop moralising about British history, Zadie Smith tells fans

She also spoke about abstaining from social media and recording the audiobook of her new novel

Evening Standard

I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel audiobook review: existential envy

The author narrates her own brisk tale of a thirtysomething’s caustic coveting of status, sex and wealth with a winningly dispassionate style

The Guardian - UK

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar; Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis; The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord; Bride of the Tornado by James Kennedy; The Land of Lost Things by John Connolly

The Guardian - UK

The Best Books of Fall 2023

An eclectic list featuring the season’s most compelling new novels, nonfiction, and poetry, as curated by The Walrus

The Walrus

Preti Taneja: ‘My mother dedicated her book to me and it made me want to be a writer’

The Gordon Burn prize winner on Salman Rushdie’s resonant stories, alpha masculinity in American Psycho, and why she started creative writing classes

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The Secret Hours by Mick Herron review – secrets and spies

This companion piece to the Slough House series uncovers intrigue and corruption in the secret service, from 90s Berlin to the Cabinet office

The Independent UK

7 fantasy books to get kids into reading if they just ‘don’t like it’

These magical stories could get your kids hooked on books this International Literacy Day. By Imy Brighty-Potts.

The Independent UK

The Changeling review: Apple TV+’s adaptation is too messy and uneven to pull off its parenthood allegory

This self-consciously literary adaptation of Victor LaValle’s novel makes for a disorientating viewing experience

The Guardian - UK

The Changeling review – LaKeith Stanfield dazzles in a baffling smörgåsbord of delights

If being unsettled is your thing, you will love this tangled mess of plotlines. Let’s just hope there’s a season two to explain it all

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Canadian journalist and author Peter C. Newman dies at 94

Veteran Canadian journalist and author Peter C

The Guardian - AU

The Modern by Anna Kate Blair review – millennial ennui lacks thrills

This novel, about an Australian woman’s existential spirals while working in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, is often frustratingly opaque

The Hindu

RBI resisted govt push for ₹3 lakh crore transfer in 2018 ahead of elections: Viral Acharya

He called the exercise a “backdoor monetisation of the fiscal deficit by the central bank”.

The Independent UK

Collection of Hilary Mantel’s essays to be published in posthumous memoir

The publication will be marked with three curated events at Cheltenham Literature Festival, Stratford Literary Festival and at the British Library.

The Independent UK

Catholic-Jewish research substantiates reports that Catholic convents sheltered Jews during WWII

Researchers have discovered new documentation that substantiates reports that Catholic convents and monasteries in Rome sheltered Jews during World War II

Evening Standard

Trinny Woodall: I felt ‘on my own’ during Charles Saatchi relationship

The beauty entrepreneur and art collector were together for a decade

The Guardian - US

Elon Musk’s hypocrisy about free speech hits a new low

It’s ‘free speech for me, but not for thee’ in his world – he doesn’t like it, he sues

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