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Woman finds touching note inside book charity shop book - and is searching for owner

Rose Farmer, from Gilbert in Arizona, America, came across a handwritten note tucked into a copy of 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter' by Carson McCullers at Goodwill - and is now trying to track down its rightful owner

Daily Mirror

The Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist is proof success doesn’t have to happen at an early age

Whatever your goals are, age doesn’t have to be a barrier to success. By Abi Jackson.

The Independent UK

‘I just saw the hand of God!’: Marylise Vigneau’s best photograph

‘Lahore suffers daily power outages and it felt like I’d found the culprit. The way the fingers seem to be interfering with overhead wires is what makes the shot work’

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'Dune 2' Could Fill In The Biggest Missing Piece From The Book

Footage of 'Dune: Part Two,' screened at CinemaCon 2023, might mean one time jump from the book could be filled in. Here's why that footage and comments from Denis Villeneuve in Vanity Fair could shake up the book's timeline.

Inverse

Liverpool Everyman Theatre tells story of stolen body cells that changed the course of medical history

Family Tree is a play about a woman's body cells taken without her consent or knowledge

Liverpool Echo

Boswell Book Festival shares two refugees' stories to raise funds for Ukrainian crisis

The festival is returning this year to the magnificent Dumfries House with a variety of events, including a fundraiser for the Rotary Club Ukrainian Crisis Taskforce.

Daily Record

Jules and Jim review – an affecting love triangle but no match for Truffaut

While there is compassion and curiosity in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s adaptation, this production lacks the whirlwind quality of Roché’s novel and the film

The Guardian - UK

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Toilet paper and advising public: Archives reveal coronation planners’ concerns

The National Archives highlighted documents relating to coronations of times gone by.

The Independent UK

The invasion of Iraq defined US' foreign relations – but in popular Iraqi literature, the war is just a piece of the country's complex history

It’s been just over 20 years since the United States invaded Iraq. Some Americans have largely forgotten about the invasion, despite the fact the Sept. 11 attacks that precipitated it still loom large in U.S. national memory. Even during the heart of the war in 2006, most young Americans could…

The Conversation

Why charity shops are the romantic heroes of the high street

From the slow experience to stories that lurk on every shelf (plus Gucci to be found!) — author, debut novelist and charity shop volunteer Lauren Bravo on the timeless thrill of thrifting in the capital

Evening Standard

Tom Jones — release date, cast, plot, trailer, interview and all we know about the period drama

Tom Jones — Solly McLeod heads a star-studded cast in a colorful adaptation of the novel about an 18th-century lothario.

WhatToWatch

Top 10 aunts in fiction

So often defying the conventions of their age, these inspiring figures are also dependable boons for nephews and nieces in books by authors from Jane Austen to JK Rowling

The Guardian - UK

In the Internet Archive Lawsuit, a Win for Publishers May Come at a Cost for Readers Everywhere

The US court’s decision means that digital lending has become a pressing question for libraries and readers

The Walrus

The North Shore by Ben Tufnell review – turning art and myth into narrative

The discovery of a body on the beach provides the pivotal moment in an essayistic novel that lacks propulsion and pace

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Women’s Prize for Fiction: More than half of shortlist recognises works by older debut novelists

Priscilla Morris, whose book tackles the Siege of Sarajevo, is the youngest shortlisted author at 49

The Guardian - UK

Dead Ink wins Republic of Consciousness prize with Missouri Williams’s ‘astonishing’ debut

The award, championing small presses with fewer than five staff, was won by The Doloriad – an audaciously original novel set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia

The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Greek Lessons by Han Kang and Death Of A Bookseller by Alice Slater.

The Times of India

Amitav Ghosh's new non-fiction book 'Smoke and Ashes' to release in July 2023

Award-winning author Amitav Ghosh's new book 'Smoke and Ashes: A Writer’s Journey Through Opium’s Hidden Histories' is all set to be released in India in July this year.

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Evening Standard

Trial begins in writer’s rape claim against Donald Trump

Former advice columnist E Jean Carroll alleges Trump attacked her in a department store in 1996

The Independent UK

E Jean Carroll’s lawyer ridicules Trump’s ‘too ugly’ rape defence: ‘Exactly his type’

Author’s lawyers deny it’s a ‘he said, she said’ story as they present photographic evidence

The Guardian - UK

‘We were blown away’: how we chose the Women’s prize shortlist

As one of this year’s judges, I have been bowled over by the range and intensity of what we have read, and I’m sure you will be too

The Guardian - UK

Three debut novels compete among Women’s prize for fiction shortlist

First-time novelists are joined by two former winners on the diverse list, as the six ‘ambitious and hard-hitting’ contenders are revealed

The Guardian - UK

Western Lane by Chetna Maroo review – a tender debut

The tensions of family life are vividly conveyed in this novel of growing pains, grief and squash

The Independent UK

Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist recognises works by older debut novelists

Priscilla Morris, whose book tackles the Siege of Sarajevo, is the youngest at 49.

The Guardian - UK

10 of the best – and most unexpected – erotic books

From Mary Wesley’s throuples to James Baldwin’s heartbreak in Paris, writers have long been obsessed by ‘the most sought-after and least examined emotion’. Here Lucy Knight picks her top 10

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