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You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith review – notes on self-regard

Smith’s memoir concerns the end of her marriage but its real subject is self-love

The Guardian - UK

Lifescapes by Ann Wroe review – a master biographer chases the essence of life

The Economist’s obituarist sheds light on her belief in the sublime – and her intense, sometimes baffling inner life – in this beautiful and brave book

The Guardian - UK

The Future Future by Adam Thirlwell review – lost in space

The prodigious writer’s tricksy new novel features Napoleon, an alien named Harper and a trip to the moon. So why is it so dull?

The Guardian - UK

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Afire review – slow-burning German drama about a self-absorbed writer

Pompous novelist Leon grapples with his difficult second book in Christian Petzold’s engaging tale of sexual tension and creativity in the shadow of the climate crisis

The Guardian - UK

The Fraud by Zadie Smith review – a trial and no errors

Inspired by an extraordinary court case, and featuring a real-life Victorian novelist, Smith’s funny, almost flawless new novel examines identity, the notion of truth and 19th-century England and Jamaica in flux

The Guardian - UK

Rome Colosseum bookshop design is based on a light, modular system

The bookshops at Rome’s Colosseum are part of Migliore+Servetto’ new concept for Italian publishing house Electa

Wallpaper

The City-whisperer who eats and drinks his way through

Zac O’Yeah lets the city speak to him, tell him its story, and not just the story of its food and drink, of which he partakes with both professional and personal interest.

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Items from Charles Dickens’ childhood to be displayed to mark 200-year milestone

Charles Dickens’ fans will be able to see relics from his harsh childhood in an exhibition marking 200 years since he was put to work aged 11.

Evening Standard

Why AI's war on language is dangerous

An AI-generated study guide turned my latest book into gobbledygook. What happens when the stakes are more serious?

Salon

Sebastian Faulks: ‘The last remaining human species needn’t have been so violent and clever as we are’

The author of Birdsong and Human Traces discusses his futuristic 16th novel, what it means to be human and what the future holds for our species

The Guardian - UK

The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright review – the female gaze

A ferocious sendup of a self-satisfied Irish poet and a brilliantly honest portrait of the women he leaves behind

The Guardian - UK

The tomb restorer from Abu Dhabi

Maxime Knudsen found graves of his great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother, Fayz un Nissa, in Hyderabad after two years of searching. With help from author William Dalrymple, he located the tomb on Troop Bazaar Road. The tomb, built in 1828, has been restored and will connect Bank Street with Residency Building. It is…

The Hindu

‘Way too much information, Frank’: I wanted to be Frank Moorhouse. Instead I became his biographer

Writing about the acclaimed author, Catharine Lumby got to pore over his letters, receipts, even his sex life. Not everything she found made it in

The Guardian - AU

Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer review – quirky, tender tale with echoes of ET

The actor Johnny Flynn captures this debut novel’s offbeat humour and the intense loneliness of its protagonist in his terrific narration

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Pearl by Siân Hughes review – a circling story of memory and loss

Taking a Middle English classic as its inspiration, this is a novel about a lasting grief that echoes through time

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Bret Easton Ellis: ‘I connected with Quentin Tarantino’

The US author on discovering Stephen King, being inspired by Joan Didion, and losing himself in film criticism

The Guardian - UK

‘Overrun with rats’: Charles Dickens Museum illuminates author’s factory stint

Dickens was taken out of school aged 11 to work in a London blacking factory as his father sank into debt

The Independent UK

Items from Charles Dickens’s childhood to be displayed to mark 200-year milestone

Dickens was just 11-years-old when he was forced to leave school in the autumn of 1823

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‘To solve Manipur, we need flexibility,’ says Samrat Choudhury, author of Northeast India: A Political History

Samrat Choudhury's book maps Northeast India's long journey from isolation to integration, highlighting unresolved issues like autonomy and independent states. Colonial records provide insight into the region's history, while Christianity's quick pick-up and slavery's prevalence are discussed. The author explains why some creative problem-solving is required to sort out festering…

The Independent UK

Items from Charles Dickens’ childhood to be displayed to mark 200-year milestone

Dickens was just 11-years-old when he was forced to leave school in the autumn of 1823.

The Guardian - UK

Alice Winn wins 2023 Waterstones debut fiction prize for In Memoriam

Novel described as ‘truly stunning feat of fiction’ tells love story of two first world war soldiers

The Independent UK

Alice Winn’s In Memoriam scoops Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023

The novel, set in the First World War, was described as ‘comfortingly classic yet daringly original’ by judges.

GamesRadar

Survival horror Blood Commandment pits an isolated family against a vampire

Spawn artist Szymon Kudrański is behind the new book from Image.

The National (Scotland)

No reason to alter fixtures to suit European qualifiers

WHEN does a book begin? When you catch a glimpse of its cover? When you lift it off the shelf? When you read the blurb on the back? When you count…

Cinemablend

One Of The Best Stephen King Movies Of All Time Is Returning To The Big Screen Next Month

Stephen King fans will get to see one of the best adaptations of all time return to the big screen in September 2023.

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