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Al-Qaeda Releases Book Detailing How it Carried Out 9/11 Attacks

The Al-Qaeda terrorist network on Sunday released a book written by a senior member including a detailed timeline leading up to the attacks on several US airliners on September 11, 2001 which left nearly 3,000 people dead in three locations. Marking the 21st anniversary of the attacks, the book was…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ducks by Kate Beaton review – bad boys from the blackstuff

Beaton’s melancholic and humane memoir records her bleak time under the male gaze in Canada’s oil sands

The Guardian - UK

Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux review – adrift in desire

The French writer’s record of an obsessive affair with a Russian diplomat is a riveting, sexually frank study of a woman in the throes of love and lust

The Guardian - UK

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‘Speculating about Bond is a national hobby’: Why 007’s fate is now in Kim Sherwood’s hands

With her electrifying new thriller ‘Double or Nothing’, the 33-year-old becomes the first female author to pick up Ian Fleming’s mantle. She talks to Kevin E G Perry about Britishness, the power of myth, and test-driving sports cars

The Independent UK

Bestselling novel forces France to reckon with #MeToo movement

Virginie Despentes’ book Cher Connard pushes problem of sexual harassment back into spotlight

The Guardian - UK

Sophie Cunningham on the ‘crazy challenge’ of bringing Leonard and Virginia Woolf to life

The Melbourne author spent 16 years researching and writing her deeply original novel. In the process, This Devastating Fever became about the process too

The Guardian - AU

The Guardian view on Tolkien: much more than special effects

Editorial: Television’s The Rings of Power is the latest proof that fantasy fiction has not lost its grip on culture

The Guardian - UK

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Spanish novelist and columnist Javier Marias dies aged 70

Award-winning Spanish novelist Javier Marias died on Sunday aged 70, his publisher Alfaguara said.

Reuters

In brief: Love Untold; The Modern Bestiary; The Red Planet – review

Ruth Jones’s Welsh generational saga, Joanna Bagniewska’s real-life fantastic beasts and Simon Morden’s Mars exploration

The Guardian - UK

"Everyone should get our own 'Predator'"

Salon talked with Ander Monson, author of the new memoir "Predator," about the 1987 film, "Prey" and America

Salon

Forever Home by Graham Norton review – effortlessly readable

The fourth novel by the chatshow host is a darkly comic Irish domestic drama that has emotional depth but is undemanding

The Guardian - UK

Rare signed edition of The Catcher in the Rye on sale for £225,000

JD Salinger did not want his friends cashing in, so inscribed copy of classic novel is one of the hardest titles for collectors to acquire

The Guardian - UK

Amy Huberman says herself and Brian O'Driscoll prefer Netflix nights in to showbiz parties

The 43-year-old also opened up on losing her dad earlier this year

Dublin Live

Poppy Starr Olsen skates onto new page-turner

Newcastle skateboard legend Poppy Starr Olsen has combined forces with award-winning Newcastle children's book author Jess Black on a new book, The Colourful World of Poppy Starr Olsen.

Newcastle Herald

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Javier Zamora: ‘Now the chances of me crossing the border and surviving would be slim’

The Salvadorian poet on his journey to the US as a nine-year-old, the exciting literature coming from his homeland – and why he is indebted to Dave Eggers

Bangkok Post

Hong Kong jails five over ‘seditious’ children’s books

HONG KONG: Five Hong Kong speech therapists were sentenced on Saturday to 19 months in jail for conspiracy to publish seditious children’s books, featuring cartoons of sheep and wolves that prosecutors had deemed anti-government.

The Independent UK

Hong Kong speech therapists sentenced to 19 months for books

A Hong Kong court has sentenced five speech therapists to nearly two years in prison for their role in the publication of children's books deemed seditious

The Guardian - US

Trump backed failed campaign coup against Kushner, Navarro book says

Ex-adviser says president agreed son-in-law had to be replaced by Steve Bannon in summer 2020 but did not dare try to fire him

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Amy Huberman reveals on Late Late moment that Queen Elizabeth poked fun at Brian O'Driscoll's nose

Huberman, who met the Queen twice, said she had a "genuine warmth"

Liverpool Echo

Pervert who was 'always looking for little girls' walks free from court

Francis Logan had a total of 1909 indecent images of children including "young babies"

The Independent UK

‘Unhinged’ Rudy Giuliani behaved in drunken and Islamophobic manner at law firm dinner, book claims

“Rudy was unhinged,” writes former US attorney Geoffrey Berman of Mr Giuliani’s behaviour at a dinner party in 2016

The Guardian - UK

Dictators, dresses and dorgis: the books that throw unexpected light on Elizabeth II

From the woman who picked her hats to the nanny who was drummed out of her flat, we pick the writers who got to the heart of the Queen – and the phenomenon of modern monarchy

The Guardian - UK

King Charles’ in-tray: Harry’s memoir, poll ratings and threats to the union

One of the monarch’s charities is also under police investigation, and what to do about Prince Andrew?

The Independent UK

Art Spiegelman to receive honorary National Book Award

“Maus” cartoonist Art Spiegelman will receive an honorary National Book Award this fall, a medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

The Guardian - UK

Peter Straub obituary

Award-winning horror writer whose novels included Julia, Ghost Story and the bestselling The Talisman with Stephen King

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