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Bestselling books at Matariki

Steve Braunias describes the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list at Matariki Weekend

Newsroom.co.nz

Bernardine Evaristo: young people are ‘addicted’ to social media and not reading

‘I worry not for my generation... I worry for young people’ she said

Evening Standard

Prince Harry recalls noticing one major difference between Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle

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Cassidy Hutchinson, key witness at Jan. 6 hearings, plans memoir this fall

Hutchinson's "testimony transfixed and stunned the nation," the publisher says.

Axios

‘I was interested in the why and how of Seagull Books’: Pushan Kripalani

In a film that’s “meant to feel like a languorous conversation with a friend”, director Pushan Kripalani goes behind four decades of the Kolkata publishing house

The Hindu

Review: Few of this summer's movies burn as fiercely as Christian Petzold's 'Afire'

Leon (Thomas Schubert), the exasperated — and exasperating — young writer at the heart of the superb German drama "Afire," has a mesmerizingly punchable scowl. It's a scowl that rarely leaves your memory, since it so rarely leaves his features: a full-lipped mouth that hangs contemptuously half-open; eyes that glare…

Los Angeles Times

Henley Literary Festival 2023 unveils lineup including Theresa May, Sebastian Faulks and David Baddiel

Oxfordshire arts festival is partnering with The Independent for a nine-day event that features appearances from actors, writers, illustrators, musicians, poets, comedians and more

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Sajita Nair’s ‘The Grande Matriarch of Malabar’ maps the social changes at the turn of the 20th century in Kerala through the life of her protagonist

The Grande Matriarch of Malabar, authored by Sajita Nair, narrates the story of Dakshayani, a strong-willed woman and her attachment to her ancestral home

The Hindu

Salman Rushdie speaks of 'crazy dreams' about knife attack in New York

Salman Rushdie has spoken for the first time about having "crazy dreams" following the near-fatal knife attack on him in New York in August last year, which has left the Mumbai-born author blind in one eye, and working with a therapist to help him process the mental impact of the…

The Times of India

My Men by Victoria Kielland review – inside the mind of a female serial killer

This raw, powerful novel is based on the Norwegian woman whose case has been notorious for more than a century

The Guardian - UK

Kolkata’s oldest bookshop to turn part of premises into free library

Kolkata's oldest bookshop, Dasgupta and Co., set up in 1886, is converting part of its premises into a free library for students who cannot afford books. The library will offer 10,000 titles, archival records, and translations from English to Bangla and vice-versa. Rabindranath Tagore, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, and Ashapurna Devi…

The Hindu

Britney Spears on Forthcoming Memoir: “I Worked My A— Off for This Book”

“I had a lot of therapy to get this book done, so you guys better like it. And if you don’t like it, that’s fine, too.”

Marie Claire

Royal Society of Literature aims to broaden representation as it announces 62 new fellows

RSL president Bernadine Evaristo highlights need to change to become an organisation for all writers rather than just the white and middle class

The Guardian - UK

Salman Rushdie reveals he may never speak at public events again after frenzied knife attack

Award-winning writer has given first interview since devastating 2022 attack which left him blind in one eye

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Britney Spears reveals release date of tell-all memoir telling story 'on her terms'

The singer's book The Woman in Me will cover her tumultuous life, including the years of her conservatorship, and will be release on October 24, she announced in a new video

Radio France Internationale

Milan Kundera, a Czech exile who found home in France, dies at 94

Czech-born writer Milan Kundera, who has died in Paris at the age of 94, lived almost half his life in France. A self-described Francophile, he wrote his later works in French and was convinced that being in exile enriched his writing.

The Independent UK

Huw Edwards: BBC presenter who broke Queen’s death to nation now at centre of sex scandal

Revelations over top-earning presenter will rock not just his industry but the nation’s confidence, writes Nick Hilton

Evening Standard

Kenny Imafidon talks Peckham, prison, Parliament and the pen

At 17, Kenny Imafidon was dealing drugs and hanging out with MPs. Then fate took a turn... As he releases his memoir, Sophie Wilkinson hears how the boy done good

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Book of the Week: Pip, genius

A strange, wondrous and disquieting journey on a spaceship crewed by giants. What?

The Times of India

Renowned author Milan Kundera dies at 94

Renowned writer Milan Kundera, who is best remembered for his book 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being', passed away due to an unspecified illness in Paris on July 11, 2023, his publisher Gallimard said. He was 94 years old.

The Guardian - UK

‘Every writer’s deepest fear’: what happened when I gave a book talk completely nude

At Nudefest, the UK’s largest naturist festival, I faced rows of unclothed nooks and visible crannies while discussing my writing. But would having my kit off prove a distraction?

The Guardian - UK

Milan Kundera: ‘funny, experimental, worldly’

Famously exiled from cold war Czechoslovakia by the Russian invasion, the novelist used his exclusion to find new ways to live and write• Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being author dies aged 94

Woman & Home

Who plays Cisco in The Lincoln Lawyer and does he die as season 2 part 1 ups the stakes for Mickey and his inner circle?

It just wouldn't be the same without Cisco in The Lincoln Lawyer and the investigator has had an intense journey in the show so far...

The Guardian - UK

Milan Kundera obituary

Influential Czech-born author of the bestselling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Dublin Live

The history of Dublin explained in bite sized chunks in new book launched this summer

A Little History of Dublin is accessible to all who wish to learn more about Dublin's history

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