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How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney review – secret shame and practical woodwork

The writer’s impressionistic second novel follows a pupil and teacher as they navigate the social codes of rural Ireland

The Guardian - UK

Never too late: over-50s urged to write fiction with prize for debut novel

Award launched at London book fair aims to help older authors take the plunge and submit a first work

The Guardian - UK

Clock watching: meet the artist who thinks time is ruining our lives

‘Clock time’, all about productivity, money and economic growth, threatens to destroy us, says artist Jenny Odell. But there are other kinds of time, and we need to learn to embrace them

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My family’s next generation is full of budding writers

It’s also true that some of them can’t actually write yet

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‘My eyes filled with tears, my voice shook’: Simon Callow on coming face to face with Shakespeare’s First Folio

As the Swan of Avon celebrates his birthday on Sunday, the actor pays tribute to a ‘miraculous’ book that rescued plays such as The Tempest and Macbeth from oblivion

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The peculiar Edinburgh museum that fans of true crime should know about

The Surgeon's Hall Museum is housed within a spectacular building on Nicolson Street and is home to a range of incredible exhibits including a small book with a cover made from the skin of a famous Edinburgh killer.

Edinburgh Live

‘When people can talk about sex, they flourish’: the rise of sexual wellness

Advice on sex is available on myriad apps, sex toys are on the high street, and the science of sexual fufilment is blossoming. Will it all have the desired effect?

The Guardian - UK

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The big picture: Ian Howorth conjures an idea of England

The Brighton-based photographer’s tragicomic eye captures the tired remains of a moment in the sun – and ponders Englishness in the process

The Guardian - UK

Reasonable Cause to Suspect by Sally Lane review – my son, the enemy of the state

A mother’s frank and heartfelt tale of trying to free her son – labelled ‘Jihadi Jack’ by the press – from a Kurdish jail is the stuff of nightmares

The Guardian - UK

‘We slept in separate bedrooms for the last three years’: ex-couples on what went right – and wrong – in their sex life

From the first frantic lust-fuelled months, through to the dwindling desires on the road to breakup, former lovers (but still friends) recall the rollercoaster rides of their relationships

The Guardian - UK

The history of world book and copyright day

World Book and Copyright Day, also known as International Day of the Book, is a global observance that promotes reading, publishing, and protecting intellectual property rights. It is celebrated annually on April 23rd and has a rich history dating back to 1995 when it was proclaimed by the United Nations…

The Times of India

Pineapple Street author Jenny Jackson: ‘There should not be 25-year-old billionaires, it makes no sense’

This year’s essential summer read is a smart pageturner about a family of one-per-centers in Brooklyn Heights. Editor turned debut novelist Jenny Jackson talks to Jessie Thompson about humanising the super-rich, how to solve income inequality, and what depresses her about publishing today

The Independent UK

Bold Street is a special place but could be in danger of losing its soul

The city centre street has long been an enclave of much-loved independent businesses

Liverpool Echo

Brutalism in Scotland looked great but ultimately it was a bit barking

A BUMPER book on Brutalist architecture – brilliant! I’m biased because I worked for a bit in one of Denys Lasdun’s masterpieces and grew up…

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Special song for LGBT+ community transformed into a storybook

THE stories we read to children in their first stages of learning cannot be underestimated in their importance

Los Angeles Times

Book bans are soaring in US schools, fueled largely by new laws in Republican-led states

Fearing criminal penalties, public schools throughout Missouri removed hundreds of books from their libraries after state lawmakers last year made it illegal to provide students with “sexually explicit” material — a new law that carried punishment of up to a year in prison.

The Guardian - UK

Underdogs Brighton triumphing in the most rigged casino game of all

Trust, courage, brains and a process: Sunday’s FA Cup semi-finalists have defied all the odds under Tony Bloom

The Times of India

Penguin to publish 'I'm a Climate Optimist' by activist Aakash Ranison

On World Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22 globally, Penguin Random House India announced the acquisition of a new non-fiction book on the environment by climate change activist Aakash Ranison. Titled 'I'm a Climate Optimist', the book will be released on World Environment Day, which will be marked…

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Novelist Celeste Ng: ‘There was a period when I thought I’d never write again’

The award-winning author on how Trump, Covid and anti-Asian rhetoric inspired her latest novel, digging her way out of ‘post-book fatigue’, and learning to touch type using Ulysses

Daily Mirror

Former police officer makes £500,000 a year from writing zombie thriller novels

Richard Haywood was on £38,000 a year as a police constable but now makes around half a million pounds a year from his highly successful book zombie book series, writing under the name RR Haywood

The Independent UK

Prince William ‘has no interest’ in speaking to Prince Harry before King’s coronation

William is reportedly ‘still upset’ about Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’

Daily Mirror

Ruby Wax reveals she was admitted to mental institution after depression 'snuck up' on her

Ruby Wax has released a new book called I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was as she talks about her mental health

The Independent UK

‘Childbirth is not an aesthetic’: Meghan Trainor opens up about being influenced by pregnancy content

Trainor recently announced she’s expecting her second child with husband Daryl Sabara

The Guardian - UK

Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson review – voice of a generation

A collection of the radical poet’s writing charts a groundbreaking career chronicling the black British experience

ABC News

Bestselling author Pip Williams returns with The Bookbinder of Jericho, a companion novel to her hit The Dictionary of Lost Words

In The Bookbinder of Jericho, Pip Williams tells the stories of working-class women in World War I that are too often missing from the official historical archive.

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