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Hugely successful adaptation of dystopian novel began airing three months after 2016 US presidential election

The first King's Birthday Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias.

She won the 2009 World Championships in Berlin at the age of 18.

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Other lives: Author of a series of novels published in the 1960s and 70s exploring themes of sexual ambiguity

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In the Vogel prize-winning author’s hands, this shocking tale of necrophilic obsession liberates the victims from the true events that inspired it

He’d never dob me in. I’ve never heard him squeal that I napped in the afternoon or watched TV instead of working

In Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty, his outstanding biography of the South African mining magnate who died in 2000, Michael Cardo shows that there is still mileage to be made in the study of dead white males who played a role in the making of South Africa. Based on…

Novel, which law professor Jennifer Taub also worked on, will be released on Substack and have ‘erotic scenes’ but ‘no politics’

I can’t remember when it hit me. It could have been when I was completing yet another admin task, using yet another random app called something like “Lettuce”. It could have been when I found myself leaving the office after spending eight hours crouched over a laptop like a dishevelled…