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Review: 'Tomb of Sand,' by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell

FICTION: The winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize takes readers on an exhilarating journey back in time.

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Review: 'Forbidden Notebook' by Alba de Céspedes, translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein

FICTION: Alba de Céspedes chronicles a 1950s Italian housewife's entry into disturbing self-awareness by way of a whim to begin keeping a diary.

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5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Becky by Sarah May and The Things That We Lost by Jyoti Patel.

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Gillian Anderson on why she is collecting sexual fantasies: ‘Women enjoy as rich an erotic life as men’

Nancy Friday’s bestseller, My Secret Garden, divulged women’s deepest desires in the 70s. Now the star of Sex Education is exploring where our imaginations are taking us today

The Guardian - UK

Mum's touching gesture to young son who died leaves Morrisons shopper in tears

A mother who lost her son at a young age left a hidden present for the next parents to use a baby changing area of a Morrisons store in Aldridge, West Midlands

Daily Mirror

Dumfriesshire poet's surprise Downing Street visit provides unforgettable Burns Night

Hugh McMillan read his work at the evening celebrating Scottish culture

Daily Record

Salman Rushdie will not promote new novel Victory City after 2022 attack

Author is still recovering after being stabbed on stage in New York last year

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I grew up evangelical. Terrifying rapture films scarred me for ever

Tales of wars, plagues and starvation left my friends and me fearing we’d be ‘left behind’. They haunt me to this day

The Guardian - US

Percival Everett, Ling Ma among nominees for critics prizes

Fiction by Percival Everett and Ling Ma, nonfiction by Annie Proulx and biographies of George Balanchine and J

The Independent UK

Litty Committee: Pour Yrself An Iced Tea And Lap Up The Best New Books Out This Feb

Read it and weep (for yr bank account).

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The climate nightmare of "The Deluge"

Stephen Markley explains how he wrote a dystopia that feels a little too real

Salon

Charlotte Crosby reveals 'never seen before' cover of brand new book - Me, Myself and Mini Me

It's the third biography from the former Geordie Shore star, detailing her romance with partner Jake Ankers and 'the emotional and physical rollercoasters of pregnancy'.

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A Tree Grows in Texas

Dagoberto Gilb, creator of the premier Chicanx literary publication (named for a South Texas plant), had to leave the state to find a home.

Texas Observer

NoViolet Bulawayo and Margo Jefferson join ‘exciting’ Rathbones Folio prize shortlist

The newly formatted prize will, for the first time, name winners in fiction, nonfiction and poetry and the shortlist includes writers from across the world

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North Dakota Republicans want to ban library books showing same sex relationships

If passed, librarians found violating the law could be imprisoned for 30 days and fined

The Guardian - UK

Salman Rushdie will not promote new novel after attack

Author will not appear at launch events for Victory City, his first book since he lost the use of one eye and one hand after being stabbed, his agent has confirmed

Newsroom.co.nz

My annual New Year's quest to be 'a better person'

Self-help books have insights, but there's a lot of padding. Like life, these books are what you make them (you can have that one for free), says Jo Cribb.

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The case of the orange Penguins

Grant McDougall is on a literary mission

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Trump sues Bob Woodward for $50 million

Lawsuit accuses journalist of "systematic usurpation, manipulation and exploitation of audio of President Trump."

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine war ‘opening eyes’ to need to reform England’s libel laws, says lawyer

Geoffrey Robertson says wealthy Russians using legal system to intimidate British journalists and publishers

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Leonardo DiCaprio will play cult leader Jim Jones in film based on Texas author’s book

DALLAS — It’s something many authors dream about: writing a bestselling book and selling it to the movies. For Fort Worth-based Jeff Guinn, it just came true. His 2017 book, "The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple," is heading to Hollywood, and Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio wants to…

The Independent UK

University ridiculed after telling students Jane Austen is offensive

Students have been alerted to certain themes in ‘Northanger Abbey’

The Guardian - US

Donald Trump sues Bob Woodward over The Trump Tapes for $50m

Washington Post reporter and publisher Simon & Schuster say lawsuit ‘without merit … we will aggressively defend against it’

The Independent UK

Former Shanghai bookseller's wife hit with 'exit ban'

Chinese police have prevented a woman from returning to her home in Florida in an effort to compel her husband to return to China, she wrote in a letter he made public

The Independent UK

Donald Trump sues Bob Woodward and book publisher over interview tapes

‘The Trump Tapes’ features hours of the ‘raw’ audio from interviews with Donald Trump

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