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This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 13, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2023 Circana.

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South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world. Are the social issues impacting women to blame?

The South Korean government is offering cash incentives to boost its record low fertility rate. But these experts say it ignores the real issues.

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Jill Longmate obituary

Other lives: Writer who chronicled the lives of contemporary lesbians

The Guardian - UK

Queen Camilla draws her own crown and isn't covered with mud at Bristol school visit

Everywhere you looked there was a household name children's author working with the children

Bristol Post

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret review: One of America’s most banned books is now a tender movie

Judy Blume has resisted film adaptations of her 1970 bestseller until now – she was right to wait

The Independent UK

Anam by André Dao review – decades-spanning family epic examines the difficulties of memory

Novel, at first glance, is the tale of the author’s grandfather. But it doubles as a meditation on remembering the past – its challenges and its anguish

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King Charles's bizarre reaction to this household item will make you chuckle

King Charles was taken by surprise when he encountered this everyday item for the first time

Woman & Home

A step back in time on a Sussex walking weekend at historic The Spread Eagle in Midhurst

A refreshing countryside mini break near London offers a great connection to royal history

Evening Standard

New photo book highlights lived experience inside Ferrari F1 team

Motorsport Images, the world’s largest collection of motorsport and automotive images, has today launched a new book featuring many of the great names from Ferrari’s history.

Autosport

Parents sue Fla. district for book ban

The banning of books by the school district violates parents’ and authors’ First Amendment rights, lawsuit argues

Salon

OPINION - Salman Rushdie was right to warn us about a slippery slope on free speech

I was privileged to attend the British Book Awards on Monday. There were buckets of champagne and wine, and a three-course meal.

Evening Standard

Queen Camilla at Bristol school in first solo visit since the Coronation

She was there to help create a 'dream library'

Bristol Post

Lori Vallow had two alleged accomplices in her children’s murders. One will never face justice

Alex Cox can never be brought to justice as he dropped dead as the net closed in on the doomsday cult killings. So was he an equal co-conspirator or was he – as he feared – Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell’s ‘fall guy’? Rachel Sharp reports

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In 1984, Nick Cave and Henry Rollins crashed a fancy Hollywood party at the Australian Consulate: their behaviour soon saw them escorted off the premises

"Nick is on his hands and knees... he crawls up to a large woman and bites her on the ankle..."

The Hindu

Author Sumit Sharma Sameer on his latest book and waking up to issues of the diaspora

Wake Up Ali... Wake Up Now is Nepali author Sumit Sharma Sameer’s first fiction work that tells an archetypal migration story through a Pakistani migrant in Canada

The Times of India

Micro review: 'Nala Damayanti' by Anand Neelakantan

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Sparrow by James Hynes review – a boy’s life in a Roman empire brothel

The experiences of an orphaned slave boy are vividly and at times gratuitously described in this brutal tale

The Hindu

Just a late Blumer fangirling

With a documentary and a feature adaptation of her timeless classic out, Judy Blume — one of the OGs of stories for young people — is back in the conversation.

The Independent UK

Hong Kong leader defends removal of politically sensitive books in public libraries

Hong Kong's leader says the city’s public libraries would not recommend books featuring “bad ideologies” to residents after they pulled titles related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and certain political figures

The Independent UK

Could you pass the SATs reading test that left children in ‘tears’?

Extract taken from book with ‘reading age of 13 plus’ in test aimed for 10 to 11-year-olds

Wales Online

Megan was such a Harry Potter fan her dad built Hogwarts in her garden

She says she isn't such a fan any more, but still uses the castle to hang out in

The Guardian - UK

Is This OK? by Harriet Gibsone review – second life

A woman comes of age on the internet in a memoir that swings between funny and profound

Manchester Evening News

Parklife and Warehouse Project boss Sacha Lord to pen tell-all book about Manchester nightlife

Tales From The Dancefloor will be out next year

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