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This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, April 8, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2023 Circana.

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The Guardian view on US book bans: time to fight back

Editorial: Censorship is surging thanks to an organised rightwing minority targeting books on LGBTQ and Black characters and issues

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Thirst for Salt by Madelaine Lucas review – a melancholic novel about lives not lived

The Australian author’s quiet debut follows an unnamed narrator who falls for a charming man the same age as her mother, with both older adults competing for her attention

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Fergie 'snubbed' after not receiving an invitation to King Charles' Coronation

Sarah Ferguson has reportedly not received an invitation to the historic event- despite still living with Prince Andrew.

Daily Record

School starters ‘need teaching to speak to adults’

Expert gives advice for parents of children whose early years were in the pandemic as they prepare to find out their primary school for September

Evening Standard

Charles’s Diana ‘agony’ to heated exchanges with William: 6 talking points in new biography about the King

Royal biographer Robert Jobson’s book promises to reveal the ‘man behind the crown’

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Hamnet review – slick adaptation captures Shakespeare’s horrified unravelling

Lolita Chakrabarti’s staging of Maggie O’Farrell’s moving novel about the death of the playwright’s son – and his resurrection in Hamlet – is powerfully played, with the occasional cheesy line

The Guardian - UK

Princess Catherine 'relieved' that Meghan Markle won't be attending King Charles's Coronation

Princess Catherine apparently had a hand in 'preventing' Meghan from attending the Coronation, according to royal experts

Woman & Home

Crime novelist Anne Perry, who had helped commit a murder as a teenager, dies at 84

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Crime author Anne Perry who was jailed for murder as a teenager dies aged 84

Her dark past was turned into the film Heavenly Creatures

Wales Online

The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller review – trapped in lockdown

Trust breaks down between the survivors of a vaccine trial as they prepare to brave a world wiped out by pandemic

The Guardian - UK

Republicans' war on reading goes nuclear

Republicans in Texas and Missouri open up a new front in the war on public education

Salon

A Little Life review: a ‘grisly spectacle’ starring James Norton

It’s “rare for a play to be a phenomenon before it even opens”, but A Little Life has managed that, said Sarah Crompton on What’s On Stage. The 2015 novel by Hanya Yanagihara on which it is based – about a New York lawyer whose life has been destroyed by…

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Anne Perry death: Crime author and real killer behind Heavenly Creatures dies aged 84

The writer, who was convicted of murder as a teenager, was known for her Pitt and Monk detective novel series

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Harry Potter remake: JK Rowling to executively produce new TV series

Max have confirmed a new Harry Potter TV series that will be executively produced by author JK Rowling and will be closely based on the existing books. Here's everything we know so far about the Harry Potter remake.

Glasgow Live

Garth Marenghi announces return to Glasgow with new Incarcerat book tour

We hope you are sitting uncomfortably as the UK's favourite horror writer is coming back to Glasgow as part of a new tour in a follow-up to his recent sell-out visits to the city.

Daily Mirror

Harry Potter fans livid over TV series cast after main actors' fallout with JK Rowling

Many avid fans of Harry Potter has slammed the idea of turning the world-famous book and movie franchise into a TV series after the main cast have almost all distanced themselves from author JK Rowling following her controversial views about the LGBTQ+ community

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Daughter slams Harry Potter-obsessed mum for naming her after character

A new Harry Potter TV show is on the way but it might not be good news for one daughter who said her mum has made her life 'hell' being named after a character.

The Guardian - UK

Granta reveals its pick of future star British novelists

The journal’s once-in-a-decade selection of the best fiction writers under 40 has broadened its selection of 20 to include authors who ‘regard the UK as their home’

The Guardian - UK

The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa review – high-risk comic debut

Stephen Buoro’s tale of a teenager in Nigeria, hanging with his friends and hankering after white girls, ticks all the boxes of a literary blockbuster

The Independent UK

Feeling a bit blah? It’s a real thing – but there are ways to beat it and find joy again

Author Tanith Carey has done a deep-dive into our ‘blah’ moods and how to overcome them. Lisa Salmon finds out more.

The National (Scotland)

New book focuses on last execution of a witch in Scotland

THE last person to be executed in Scotland for witchcraft is the subject of a new book.

Los Angeles Times

Anne Perry, teen murderer turned crime writer, dies at 84

LOS ANGELES — Anne Perry, a prolific British crime writer with a murderous past that was brought to light in Peter Jackson's 1994 film "Heavenly Creatures," has died. She was 84.

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Harry Potter TV series, Game of Thrones prequel coming to new streaming service Max

Author JK Rowling's seven Harry Potter books have sold more than an unprecedented 600 million copies worldwide — and now, The Boy Who Lived is heading to a new streaming service with a new series.

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