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This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 20, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2023 Circana.

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This week's bestselling books

The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias

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‘The public wants certainty’: why have Americans stopped trusting in science?

In a new book, chemist Christopher Reddy tackles the problems faced by the scientific community during moments of major crisis

The Guardian - US

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Abdellah Taïa is Morocco's first openly gay writer – his work reimagines being Muslim, queer and African

Abdellah Taïa was born in 1973 in Rabat, Morocco. He currently lives in Paris. He is the first writer from north Africa – and in fact the Arab world – to openly declare that he is gay. In 2006, he came out in a highly publicised article in the Moroccan…

The Conversation

Sadiq Khan: Anti-Ulez protesters didn’t ‘spoil’ book launch

Sadiq Khan’s book launch was interrupted by protesters opposed to the Ultra low emission zone’s expansion - but he says they did not succeed in ‘spoiling’ the event

Evening Standard

Book FINALLY returned to library after nearly 100 years with thousands in fines

Jim Perry returned Benson Lossing's "A History of the United States" to the St Helena Public Library in California 96 years after it was due in 1927

Daily Mirror

Former bingo caller wins prestigious book prize

Author Jarvis, from Salford, was presented the prize by HRH Princess Beatrice

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10 questions for Conleth Maenpaa of Lindisfarne Festival

The man behind the popular Northumberland festival answers our questions

Birmingham Post

Anna Karenina review: ‘fluid and febrile’ adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic novel

This entertaining co-production of “Anna Karenina”, which transfers from Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre to Bristol Old Vic next month, “began as a dare”, said Fergus Morgan in The Stage. The British-Russian director Polina Kalinina was complaining to the Scottish writer Lesley Hart that Russian literary texts typically “suffered from staidness…

The Week

Rishi Sunak reveals his favourite Jilly Cooper novels on This Morning

PM tells ITV show he reads veteran author’s racy books for ‘escapism’

The Guardian - UK

Winnie-the-Pooh book teaches Texas kids to ‘run, hide, fight’ in a shooting

Stay Safe book, produced by a law enforcement consulting firm in Houston, was sent home in backpacks of children

The Guardian - US

Scandalous ‘bonkbuster’ book by ex-Boris advisor causes a fuss in Westminster

And Theresa May is a fan

Evening Standard

Jilly Cooper ‘thrilled to bits’ that Rishi Sunak reads her bonkbusters

PM spoke in some detail about how he enjoys the novels as they help him ‘get away from the day to day’

The Independent UK

Sleeping on Islands by Andrew Motion review – candid stories from the former poet laureate

A revealing memoir illuminates the conflict between wordly success and creative freedom

The Guardian - UK

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

Mitchell & Ness is a global brand. Forty years ago, the Philly company was nearly bankrupt.

PHILADELPHIA — The second and third floors of the old building near 13th and Walnut Streets held the world’s largest collection of backdated periodicals, making it an ideal place to pass some time. Bookcases lined the floor and the stacks of old magazines nearly touched the ceilings. Sports Illustrated, Life,…

The Guardian - UK

The Story of the Forest by Linda Grant review – 20th-century journeys

A brother and sister leave Latvia for Liverpool in this impressive family epic, an intimate history of Jewish assimilation

The Guardian - UK

On Women by Susan Sontag review – the reluctant feminist

Susan Sontag’s mixed feelings towards the movement that propelled her career

The Hindu

Interview | Smriti Ravindra on her debut novel ‘The Woman Who Climbed Trees’

In this interview with The Hindu, author Smriti Ravindra shares insights from her debut novel ‘The Woman Who Climbed Trees’ which evokes themes from a woman’s inner and outer lives with heart-breaking tenderness and ferocious honesty.

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The Times of India

Tell a story you believe in: Anand Neelakantan on his latest book 'Nala Damyanti', working with SS Rajamouli and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, and more

Indian mytho-fiction writer Anand Neelakantan is back with a new novel, ‘Nala Damayanti’, this year. This rom-com is a retelling of the timeless and lesser-known story from the Mahabharata. But did you know that apart from writing books and scripts for the screen, Neelakantan is also a painter and an…

The Independent UK

Texas slammed over Winnie the Pooh story to teach children about mass shootings on anniversary of Uvalde massacre

The book was written by a former Texas police chief

Leeds Live

How to meet Kevin Sinfield and buy a signed copy of his new book The Extra Mile

Fans can meet him in The Long Bar ahead of this Friday's Betfred Super League double header between Leeds Rhinos and St Helens

The Conversation

Time Shelter: International Booker's first Bulgarian winner is a rich experiment in style, structure and ideas

A philosophical exploration of memory and nostalgia, about forgetting and trying to hold on to our past and make sense of our present and future, Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter is a worthy winner of this year’s International Booker prize.

The Guardian - UK

Kenneth Anger: Tinseltown’s outrageous magus of occult desire

Anger ignited the gossip industry with the squalid tales in his book Hollywood Babylon, while his daringly erotic films fuelled the counterculture

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Sorry folks, D&D is making its new books more expensive

The price of D&D books will be going up by $10 in the not-so-distant future.

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'You Hurt My Feelings' review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a joy in this perfectly sized film

Beth Mitchell (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and her husband Don (Tobias Menzies) are one of those middle-aged couples whose lives seem perfect: She's an academic and a writer with a published memoir and a just-finished novel, he's a psychologist with a busy therapy practice, and the two are empty nesters in a…

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