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A tale of too many remakes: why we never need to see a Dickens novel on TV ever again

The BBC is about to screen yet another adaptation of Great Expectations – and enough is enough. It’s time they focused on new stories, rather than constantly making the same show

The Guardian - UK

Mum sells first-edition Harry Potter book - with life-changing consequences

Kirsten Kane, 35, couldn't believe it when her mum found a rare copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone while clearing out her attic - just at the perfect time

Daily Mirror

Record high reported in Book ban efforts, says ALA

According to data released by the American Library Association on March 23, 2023, requests for books to be removed from US shelves and the wave of attempted book banning touched a record-high in 2022, with the majority of titles "targeted for censorship" related to LGBTQ issues and minorities.

The Times of India

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Katherine Rundell: ‘My party trick is knowing Jane Austen’s Emma off by heart’

The author on Vladimir Nabokov’s footnotes, James Baldwin’s essays and returning to Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety

The Guardian - UK

Homelands by Timothy Garton Ash review – Europe’s story

The author and journalist charts some of the lessons learned from the Hungarian revolution to the invasion of Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Taking drugs with your children? Gen Z won’t even want to share a beer with us

Hanif Kureishi talks of cocaine nights with his kids. He makes the whole issue sound simple. I can’t believe it is, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Yellowjackets season two review: Pulpy survival drama is turning into an increasingly second-rate adventure

Preposterous, but fun. Gruesome, but fun. Tantalising, but fun. Yet there comes a point where the show must produce a pay-off

The Independent UK

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Shadow And Bone’s Ben Barnes And Daisy Head Discuss How General Kirigan And Genya’s Relationship Differs From The Books In Season 2

Ben Barnes and Daisy Head discuss how General Kirigan and Genya's relationship differs from the books in Season 2 of Shadow and Bone.

Cinemablend

Ling Ma, Isaac Butler and Morgan Talty among National Book Critics Circle Award winners

Ling Ma, Morgan Talty, Boris Dralyuk and Isaac Butler are among the winners of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Awards announced during a ceremony Thursday night at the New School in New York City.

Los Angeles Times

Another Prince Harry book? 'Spare Us!' gives his memoir the parody treatment

First came the Twitter critics, then the late-night comedians and now the satirists: Prince Harry's bestselling memoir "Spare" is getting the parody treatment, to arrive on the heels of April Fool's Day.

Los Angeles Times

A Look Into The Psychedelic Drug Prince Harry Took To Deal With Past ‘traumas’

Immersive states of consciousness, typified by vivid and strange images, are produced by the highly potent substance.

Zenger

Check out this real life puppet version of Mike Mignola's Pinocchio

Red Nose Studios has built a real life replica of Mike Mignola's take on Pinocchio.

GamesRadar

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 18, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2023 Circana.

Tribune News Service

This week's bestselling books

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

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The Guardian - UK

Mary Rayner obituary

Children’s author who devised the adventures of the Pig family and illustrated stories including Dick King-Smith’s The Sheep-Pig

Marie Claire

George, Charlotte and Louis were sent a hilarious pre-coronation gift

They must have laughed so much when they saw this

The Independent UK

Infinity Pool review: A luxury holiday leads to violence and orgies in this lurid Mia Goth thriller

The lines between victims and perpetrators is blurred in Cronenberg’s creepy and thought-provoking film about the filthy rich

The Guardian - AU

Resistance by Jacinta Halloran review – a perceptive novel about secrets and shame

Halloran’s fourth novel follows a therapist who becomes obsessed with her new clients, a family court-mandated to see her after a strange event

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Eric Brown, science fiction author and Guardian critic, dies aged 62

Writers, publishers and agents pay tribute to a warm, generous figure, author of more than 50 books ranging from SFF to crime to children’s literature

Marie Claire

Kate Middleton 'had to take a fertility test' before marrying Prince William, claims royal author

The controversial claim was made in a new book about the monarchy

The Guardian - UK

In Memoriam by Alice Winn review – an elegy for young love

Two young men journey from the classroom to the trenches in this tale of a forbidden relationship set against the first world war

The Independent UK

Library association reports record book ban attempts in 2022

A new report from the American Library Association says attempted book bannings and restrictions at school and public libraries continue to surge, setting a new record in 2022

The Guardian - US

‘These are my stomping grounds’: the first Black-owned bookstore opens in Octavia Butler’s home town

Octavia’s Bookshelf promotes Black writers, culture and business in Pasadena, where the famed novelist lived and worked

The Guardian - UK

Patrick French: the biographer of VS Naipaul was a generous collaborator with twinkling wit

The writer and historian, who has died aged 56, was not only widely respected for his writing on India but a kind and optimistic man, says fellow academic Maya Jasanoff

The Independent UK

Melania’s former adviser responds to claim she left Trump over Stormy Daniels scandal: ‘I was there!’

Ex-aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff denies Melania left White House for DC hotel as Stormy Affair came to light in 2018

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