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Goodreads is right to divide opinions, wrong to boil them down

I don’t choose books based on the aggregate rating as if they are skincare products, nor do I think any critical verdict is the final one

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Good Omens 2 cast on Heaven and Hell and everything in between: “the most radical thing I’ve seen on TV”

A cast of old and new faces returns for part two of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed fantasy series

Evening Standard

Shankari Chandran wins 2023 Miles Franklin award for Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Set around a culture war in a nursing home, Chandran’s third novel has won Australia’s biggest literary prize – and yet, she says, she was almost too afraid to write it

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Tom Lake by Ann Patchett review – a lesson in how to kiss and tell

Patchett’s new novel, in which a mother tells her daughters about her early romance with a famous actor, is a gentle but revealing meditation on lost love and destiny

The Guardian - UK

Backlash over sex education book suggests Australia has a long way to go, Senate inquiry hears

Author Jess Hill tells inquiry into consent laws almost half of children aged nine to 16 are being regularly exposed to porn, with damaging effect

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Travelling unfettered across 10 countries in Asia by road

Group of four travel 500,000 km across India & 10 countries in Asia to research little-known seers. Supported by friends & groups, they journey to find unified whole. Unfettered travel is about discovering every being is part of one. Book to be written in English & translated into multiple languages.

The Hindu

Jill Duggar Dillard Carried Her Book Around In A Plastic Bag While She Figured Out What She Wanted To Say About Duggar Family Drama

Jill Duggar Dillard seems to have spent a lot of time figuring out what to tell everyone about her family in her new book.

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Jim Powell obituary

Other lives: Writer and historian whose success as a novelist began when he was 61

The Guardian - UK

'Ripe' Is Our August Book Club Pick

Read an excerpt of Sarah Rose Etter's new novel, here, then dive in with us throughout the month.

Marie Claire

Miles Franklin 2023: a guide to the shortlist of Australia’s biggest literary prize

Six authors are in the running for Australia’s most prestigious book award, which will be announced on Tuesday. Here’s your primer

The Guardian - AU

‘It’s some sort of cosmic joke’: Tracy Sorensen wrote a book about surviving cancer. Now it has returned

Sorensen’s new novel The Vitals is narrated by her own organs during her cancer treatment a decade ago. But as she prepared to promote it, she found herself ‘back in cancer land’

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Zorian Cross's debut novel 'The Yogi Witch: Bloodlines and Legacies' launched in Delhi

Recently at Depot 48 in Delhi, we learnt about the magical side of reality during a fascinating talk between Zorian Cross and Sumiran Annamaria Kashyap at the launch of the former's debut novel 'The Yogi Witch: Bloodlines and Legacies'.

The Times of India

OPINION - Sadiq Khan’s ‘Say Maate’ campaign is part of an ugly war on human exchange

THERE’s been a dusty response so far to “Say Maate!”, the Mayor’s exciting new initiative to stamp out sexism in public spaces. The gist is that when a bloke catches his friend saying something off-colour to a woman, he reprimands him with a reproachful “Maate!”. The friend, abashed, sinks into…

Evening Standard

Freddie Forsyth compares Met Police to ‘Stasi hounding an old codger’ in speed fine row

The Day of the Jackal writer has been hauled before a court after an administrative error — which he insists the Met is to blame for

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'Good Omens' Season 2 Goes Beyond The Source Material: "We Knew There Was More Story"

Stars David Tennant and Michael Sheen talk about their ineffable chemistry, Easter eggs, and 'Doctor Who.'

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Though the Bodies Fall by Noel O’Regan review – eloquent tale of trauma and absence

An unflinching debut novel set in west Ireland explores the pull of place and duty

The Guardian - UK

Kit by Megan Barker review – roads not taken

This bittersweet debut fuses prose and poetry as a narrator struggles with a troubled friend and her own life of lost freedoms

The Independent UK

Cheri Pies death: Author of ‘pioneering’ lesbian parenting handbook dies of cancer at 73

Cheri Pies broke new ground for gay mothers when she published ‘Considering Parenthood: A Workbook for Lesbians’ in 1985

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The Conversation

I can't imagine anybody would come out of On The Beach and not hold their loved ones just that little bit closer

Review: On The Beach, directed by Kip Williams.

The Hindu

Book detailing golu arrangements with ‘Gowri Dolls’ released

Kalpakam Srinivasamurti, a Gopalapuram resident, released her bilingual book "Kalpakam's Golu with Gowri Dolls" on Sunday. The book documents her use of 2-ft wooden dolls from Mysuru to arrange thematic golus for Navarathri. Mrs. Srinivasamurti thanked Chandra Sankar of Kalamkriya for publishing the book and industrialist R.T. Chari for arranging…

The Guardian - US

Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May to release 3D atlas of asteroid

The rocker astrophysicist is co-author of a three-dimensional atlas of Bennu, an asteroid explored by the Osiris-Rex probe in 2020

The National (Scotland)

Scotland's most-loved comic undergoes major modern transformation

One of Scotland’s longest running comics has undergone a transformation in hope of being more representative.

The Independent UK

Firm behind Roald Dahl’s modern rewrite transforms Britain’s most-loved comic

Inclusive Minds, who helped remove ‘offensive’ material from the Roald Dahl novels, have played a role in the transformation of The Beano.

The Guardian - UK

The Trackers by Charles Frazier review – on the run in Depression-era US

An implausible tale of a painter turned detective does little to free the novelist from the shadow of Cold Mountain

The Guardian - UK

I travelled across America to discover my mother’s secrets – and instead found that I have my own

My journey into the world showed me that adventures are for me too

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