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Cheltenham Festival 2023: 'World’s most expensive' pint of Guinness being sold at event

The new drink is a 'perfect blend' of English sparkling wine and Irish stout' to the Government’s post-Brexit Northern Ireland trade deal

Bristol Post

JK Rowling branded 'national treasure' by SNP leadership candidates despite criticism of Nicola Sturgeon

The best-selling author has been a persistent critic of the Scottish Government's gender recognition reforms.

Daily Record

Martha Mills prize: new award for young writers launched by London Review Bookshop

Prize for writing by 11-14-year-olds inspired by ‘imagination and curiosity’ of Martha, who died in 2021 aged 13

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International Booker prize announces longlist to celebrate ‘ambition and panache’

The list includes books from Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov as well as Indian novelist Perumal Murugan who declared himself ‘dead’ after protests against his work

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Sarah, Duchess of York: I made endless wrong decisions – but it’s got me to where I am today

The ex-wife of the Duke of York offers her views on Harry and Meghan, the King, and looking after the late Queen’s corgis. By Hannah Stephenson.

The Independent UK

Lives of the Wives by Carmela Ciuraru review – literary couples a breed apart

The author raids memoirs and letters but adds little of her own in this juicy group biography of writers’ marriages

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Locate International issues new image to identify man found dead near Bristol 27 years ago

"Someone out there must remember meeting him"

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Litty Committee: These Colleen Hoover Books Are Under $16 RN In Case Yr In Need Of A Good Cry

Run, don't walk to the fiction aisle.

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Trump probe 'weaponized' by Manhattan DA, ex-president's lawyer says in calling for review

NEW YORK — A lawyer for Donald Trump has called for an independent review of the Manhattan district attorney’s office over its yearslong investigation of the former president, claiming prosecutors there have “weaponized” the office.

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Two SNP leadership candidates call JK Rowling a ‘national treasure’

Kate Forbes and Ash Regan describe author, who opposed Nicola Sturgeon’s gender recognition reforms, as ‘brave’ in TV debate

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Ex-Prime Minister Theresa May writing ‘Abuse of Power’ book

The book will touch on the Hillsborough and Grenfell tragedies and the Daniel Morgan case

Evening Standard

Theresa May to release book on famous political scandals

In The Abuse of Power, former PM will look at how public institutions close ranks ‘to serve themselves’

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Theresa May writing book on "abuses of power", but will she mention Boris Johnson?

Publishers describe Theresa May's book - titled The Abuse of Power - as a "searing exposé of injustice", saying it will shed light on notorious scandals such as the Hillsborough and Grenfell Tower tragedies and the Salisbury poisonings

Daily Mirror

Book thief who stole more than 1,000 manuscripts ‘wanted to cherish them before anyone else’

Filippo Bernardini impersonated hundreds of people in the publishing industry to obtain work by Margaret Atwood, Sally Rooney and Ian McEwan, but never intended to leak the books

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The world can be overwhelming for children – that’s why I’ve reduced it to 100 people

My book makes daunting statistics easy to understand, opening young people up to different ways of thinking about the world, says children’s writer Jackie McCann

Daily Record

Castle Douglas nursery youngsters celebrate World Book Day

The children wore their pyjamas to promote bed time reading and also brought in their favourite books

Bangkok Post

Kenzaburo Oe: novelist who won Nobel with 'poetic force'

TOKYO - Nobel-winning Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe, a leading liberal voice who defended the disenfranchised and challenged the conformity of modern society, has died aged 88.

The Independent UK

Japan’s Kenzaburo Oe, awarded Nobel for poetic fiction, dies

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Dr No by Percival Everett review – something out of nothing

Narrated by a mathematician, the American author’s antic shaggy dog story may disappoint fans of last year’s The Trees, but he knows exactly what he is doing

Irish Mirror

The calm before the storm - A behind the scenes look at Paddy Power as Cheltenham looms

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China’s ‘rotten girls’ are escaping into erotic fiction about gay men

Danmei is by some measures the most popular genre of fiction for women in China, and its popularity hasn’t gone unnoticed by the Communist party

Manchester Evening News

Has Manchester changed too much? 'I feel guilty that I was part of it'

"In 1980 Manchester was summed up in people's minds as Kevin Cummins' picture of Joy Division in Hulme - looking miserable, bleak, around half collapsed buildings."

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Don’t Think, Dear; My Nemesis; Handmade – reviews

A thoughtful memoir casts a critical eye on ballet, a gripping novel digs deep into feminine rivalry and a bracing manifesto extols the virtue of woodcraft

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Surviving copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio to go on show

Events planned in UK and Ireland, including a British Library exhibition, to mark 400 years since complete works first published

The Guardian - UK

Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed review – a slick and starry collection of short stories

Tackling gendered insults head on, A-list authors deliver a smart anthology of fun and fearless tales to celebrate Virago’s 50th birthday

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