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The Guardian view on the British Library’s digital archive: a new life for Chaucer

Editorial: The latest collection to go online reveals the six centuries of influence of a medieval giant who predated the printed press

The Guardian - UK

The mean streets of Tauranga

We cross live to one of the capitals of organised crime in New Zealand

Newsroom.co.nz

Welcome to the golden age of celebrity memoirs, where authenticity sells

Britney's bombshell new memoir is the ultimate proof that performative radical honesty is in vogue right now, says Alex Peake-Tomkinson

Evening Standard

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Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke review – a devilishly brilliant hidden gem

First published in 1973, Brooke’s dark tale of an upper-class coming-of-age is full of the kind of truth only fiction can deliver

The Guardian - UK

The Mirror and the Road: Conversations With William Boyd by Alistair Owen – review

A superfan’s series of interviews with the author veers perilously close to hagiography but its mix of enthusiasm and encyclopedic knowledge proves unexpectedly illuminating

The Guardian - UK

Yeats’ play on sale for £125,000 – thanks to message from the dead

A 1924 seance has solved the mystery surrounding a signed copy of the dramatist’s first play

The Guardian - UK

Laura Bates: ‘The algorithmically facilitated mass radicalisation of young men is lads’ mags on steroids’

The feminist activist and author on writing her first fantasy novel, dealing with online death threats and why the new generation of teenagers gives her hope

The Guardian - UK

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‘We didn’t half have a laugh’: writers Nina Stibbe and Deborah Moggach on living together, breakups and needy cockapoos

Stibbe’s warm and witty new book describes the year she lodged with Moggach, the author of Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Listen; The Temple of Fortuna; Poor Things – review

Novelist Michel Faber turns his hand to a captivating study of music; a thrilling conclusion to a historical fiction trilogy set in Rome; and a timely reissue of Alasdair Gray’s classic

The Guardian - UK

Letters reveal the dispute that pushed poet Thomas Chatterton to the brink

The romantic writer took his own life aged just 17 after a row with Horace Walpole

The Guardian - UK

The big picture: Halloween on the subway

Every Halloween for 20 years, Seymour Licht went underground to photograph New York’s ghouls and monsters, on their way to and from parties

The Guardian - UK

Poetry festival’s no holds barred approach is paying off

CREATED in the middle of the Covid pandemic, Scotland’s newest poetry festival was launched in a spirit of defiance.

The National (Scotland)

Samantha Harvey: ‘I like Alien as much as anybody else. But I see this novel as space pastoral’

The novelist who’s been likened to Virginia Woolf on her new book set on the International Space Station, how insomnia has changed the way she thinks – and her fascination with time and faith

The Guardian - UK

Bayard Rustin review: fine portrait of a giant of protest and politics

Michael G Long edits essays from 23 authors on the great civil rights advocate, newly in the spotlight thanks to the Obamas

The Guardian - US

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Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke review – an upper-class monster

A timely reissue for this gem from the archives, in which an ex-public schoolboy makes a gruesome fall from grace

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Hunt on for book containing Wilkie Collins’s criticism of friend Dickens

Collins’s notes on his collaborator’s ‘weakest book’ and ‘astonishingly bad’ work were sold at auction in 1890

The Guardian - UK

How common is plagiarism in the publishing industry?

The shadow chancellor’s new book has come under scrutiny for lifting passages of text from other sources without acknowledgment. Academic writers explore how this can happen

The Hindu

Rangoli, kite flying, book release and much more to mark beginning of ‘Karnataka Sambhrama’

Drawing rangolis and flying kites in the Kannada flag colours of yellow and red, lighting ‘Kannada Jyothi’, releasing books, and organising various competitions will be part of the State government’s yearlong programmes that will commence on November 1, 2023, to mark the golden jubilee celebrations of the renaming the Mysuru…

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Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher: an incoherent mess of references that fails to honour Edgar Allan Poe

This article contains spoilers

The Guardian - UK

The List by Yomi Adegoke audiobook review – a very public scandal

Sheila Atim and Arinzé Kene narrate this powerful tale about a couple torn apart by allegations of sexual assault circulated on social media

The Walrus

Sarah Bernstein Breaks the Rules in Study for Obedience

The unnerving novel that earned two major prize nominations rattles expectations of how stories are often told

The Independent UK

Nadine Dorries teases meaning behind title of book on Boris Johnson’s downfall

It will be published on November 9.

The Guardian - UK

British Library celebrates the surging popularity of fantasy fiction

Authors’ sketches, early editions and movie props all feature in a new exhibition exploring the long history of the genre

The Guardian - UK

Richard Armitage: ‘I used to stand on the Lord of the Rings to reach the top shelf in my wardrobe’

The actor and author on his love of fantasy fiction, the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, and why he doesn’t want a second bite of Proust

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October

Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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