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

Dreams of Bollywood; awkward questions about the British Empire; a haunted school trip; and a riotous YA horror-comedy

The Guardian - UK

A Pocketful of Happiness by Richard E Grant audiobook review – laughter, loss and love

The actor warmly recalls the time he shared with his wife during her last year and their past encounters with glitz and glamour

The Guardian - UK

Selling yourself is a minefield for all of us – not just students. Here’s how to do it in 600 words

The fine art of self-promotion is more vital than ever – and crafting a personal statement is apt training for modern life, says writer and reviewer Katy Guest

The Guardian - UK

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Gary Shteyngart: ‘Orwell made dictatorships seem a lot less sexy’

The Soviet-born novelist on rewriting the Torah, learning from Judy Blume, and why Vladimir Nabokov is ‘yum’

The Guardian - UK

Republican hopeful Mike Pence to release book on ‘how faith makes family’

Advice book Go Home For Dinner, co-authored with daughter Charlotte Pence Bond, to be published by Simon & Schuster

The Guardian - US

The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor review – a class act

A college campus in the midwest provides the setting for this expansive novel of sex, politics and self-discovery

The Guardian - UK

One Midsummer’s Day by Mark Cocker review – soaring with swifts

Wonder and gratitude drive a revelatory account of this vital summer visitor

The Guardian - UK

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Belfast writer Lucy Caldwell winner of Walter Scott Prize 2023

Caldwell scoops £25,000 prize for her novel These Days set during air strikes on Belfast during Second World War

The Independent UK

‘For Hindutva, only the Hindu past is relevant,’ says Romila Thapar, author of The Future in the Past: Essays & Reflections

The Future in the Past: Essays & Reflections by Romila Thapar

The Hindu

Belfast writer announced as winner of Walter Scott Prize 2023

Lucy Caldwell scooped the £25,000 prize for her novel These Days set during air strikes on Belfast during the Second World War.

The Independent UK

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, June 10, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2023 Circana.

Tribune News Service

Omar Khalidi Hall inaugurated at MANUU

The Hindu

Robert Caro's last book on LBJ likely won't be delayed by editor Robert Gottlieb's death

One of the book world’s most long-awaited publications, Robert Caro's fifth volume on Lyndon Johnson is unlikely to be delayed by the death of editor Robert Gottlieb

The Independent UK

Prince Harry recalled ‘yawning silence’ that followed Meghan Markle’s joke after first Trooping the Colour

Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended their first Trooping the Colour together in 2018, but are reportedly not invited to this year’s celebration

The Independent UK

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This week's (historically important) bestselling books

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

Salon

Cormac McCarthy didn't write Westerns

The acclaimed American writer never confined himself to one genre ... or its conventions for that matter

The Guardian - AU

I Look Forward to Hearing from You by Nick Bhasin review – madcap Hollywood satire

While it has moments of brilliance and a Clickhole-esque wit, this debut novel is more often swallowed by its own snark

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey to publish ‘accessible’ poetry collection

Contributions by Russell Brand and Maxine Peake feature in Poetry for the Many, which aims to help readers shake off the idea that verse is only for ‘posh people’

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Evening Standard

This is Europe by Ben Judah: an astonishing achievement

Ben Judah, This is Europe. The way we live now.

GamesRadar

Green Lantern: War Journal #1 puts John Stewart back on the front line

The new Dawn of DC series is by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Montos

Evening Standard

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad by Daniel Finkelstein review: a breathless, brilliant memoir

Implicit throughout this brilliant book is the understanding that, for every survival story like his, there are millions unwritten

The Conversation

How the Unabomber's unique linguistic fingerprints led to his capture

Can the language someone uses be as unique as their fingerprints?

The Hindu

33 academicians write to NCERT asking their names to be removed from the textbooks

Their collective creative effort is in jeopardy and their names should be dropped from textbooks, 33 academicians have told the NCERT

Space

The Apollo moon landing was real, but NASA's quarantine procedure was not

On its face, the Apollo 11 quarantine protocol looked sensible. But the new research suggests that NASA's "planetary protection" efforts were largely for show.

The Independent UK

Women’s Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver on creating ’empathy’ for the opioid crisis

The writer took home the top prize for her Charles Dickens-inspired novel Demon Copperhead. By Prudence Wade.

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