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‘If the plane breaks down, it’s just you’: the pressure and awakening of one city GP in the outback

Dr Sonia Henry was looking to escape her Sydney life when she signed up to work in remote hospitals. What she encountered was amazing beauty – and terrible suffering

The Guardian - AU

Sad Girl Novel author Pip Finkemeyer on critiquing sad girl novels: ‘It has to have a heart’

The Melbourne author’s debut tackles the books industry and the rise of a now-ubiquitous genre – staying one step ahead of the reader along the way

The Guardian - AU

Margaret Atwood and Rob Delaney at Hay Festival: ‘I don’t want to live forever’

The pair discuss grief, the process of writing, and what awaits after death

Evening Standard

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Author Ama Ata Aidoo, ‘an inspiration to feminists everywhere’, dies aged 81

The Ghanaian playwright and novelist, who also served as her country’s education minister, focused on the modern African woman

The Guardian - UK

Black Belfast girl threatened after telling of unease over Of Mice and Men

Police inform Angel Mhande’s family of threat after her call for novel to be dropped from GCSE course

The Guardian - UK

Johnny Depp's lawyer Camille Vasquez still texts him 'often' as she considers tell-all book

Camille Vasquez - who was among the attorneys who represented Johnny Depp in the defamation case between him and Amber Heard last year - has spoken about having kept in contact with him

Daily Mirror

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy audiobook review – love across the sectarian divide

Actor Bríd Brennan narrates this debut novel about a dangerous love affair between an Irish Catholic teacher and a Protestant lawyer

The Guardian - UK

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Thomas and Paxton: Oligarchy at work

Clarence Thomas and Ken Paxton's high-end corruption isn't about a few "bad apples." It's how our system works

Salon

The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan review – sharp-eyed follow-up to Exciting Times

Marriage is a dare and coupledom is complicated in this perceptive take on modern love

The Guardian - UK

‘Climate negotiations are inherently abusive’: campaigner Brianna Craft on the struggle smaller countries face

In her memoir, the Cop delegate draws parallels with her violent childhood home and the imbalance of power in global summits

The Guardian - UK

Review of Abhishek Choudhary’s Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu Right 1924-1977; The right man in the right party

Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu Right 1924-1977

The Hindu

E Jean Carroll, Mary Trump, and Jennifer Taub are co-writing a romance novel

‘The Italian Lesson’ will be serialised on newsletter platform Substack

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie to write a book about being stabbed on stage

Author tells Hay literary festival he needs to ‘get past’ the knife attack he suffered before writing anything else

The Guardian - UK

Trump election reframed TV version of The Handmaid’s Tale, says Atwood

Hugely successful adaptation of dystopian novel began airing three months after 2016 US presidential election

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Bestselling books at King's Birthday

The first King's Birthday Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias.

The Independent UK

Caster Semenya wants to inspire resilience with memoir published by Merky Books

She won the 2009 World Championships in Berlin at the age of 18.

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

Mariana Villa-Gilbert obituary

Other lives: Author of a series of novels published in the 1960s and 70s exploring themes of sexual ambiguity

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Marie Claire

'Yellowface' Is Our June Book Club Pick

Read an excerpt from R.F. Kuang's latest novel, here, then dive in with us throughout the month.

The Guardian - AU

Exquisite Corpse by Marija Peričić – boundary-pushing and disturbing feminist gothic horror

In the Vogel prize-winning author’s hands, this shocking tale of necrophilic obsession liberates the victims from the true events that inspired it

The Guardian - AU

I hired my dog to be my office assistant. His pay is inclusive of super – super long walks, that is

He’d never dob me in. I’ve never heard him squeal that I napped in the afternoon or watched TV instead of working

The Conversation

Harry Oppenheimer biography shows the South African mining magnate’s hand in economic policies

In Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty, his outstanding biography of the South African mining magnate who died in 2000, Michael Cardo shows that there is still mileage to be made in the study of dead white males who played a role in the making of South Africa. Based on…

The Guardian - US

Trump accuser E Jean Carroll writes romance novel with ex-president’s niece

Novel, which law professor Jennifer Taub also worked on, will be released on Substack and have ‘erotic scenes’ but ‘no politics’

Evening Standard

I’ve found an unexpected formula — less ambition makes me happier

I can’t remember when it hit me. It could have been when I was completing yet another admin task, using yet another random app called something like “Lettuce”. It could have been when I found myself leaving the office after spending eight hours crouched over a laptop like a dishevelled…

Evening Standard

Greta Thunberg to appear at Edinburgh Book Festival: When is it and how to attend

Swedish activist in Scottish capital to promote The Climate Book

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